How to tell a high school coach that she can't overuse my pitcher

[PJR202]

yeah, I'll stick to pitching to 75lb girls. ;-)

It was literally...player BP finished, coach trots up and says "lemme take a couple swings." Probably the third pitch I tossed was the money shot. We never bat off the players for this exact reason. Clearly I didn't have the reflexes he expected..lol

 

[CoachCeetar]

It was literally...player BP finished, coach trots up and says "lemme take a couple swings." Probably the third pitch I tossed was the money shot. We never bat off the players for this exact reason. Clearly I didn't have the reflexes he expected..lol

Yeah, I get nervous just hitting them infield/outfield practice when I want to give 'em a hard one.

 

[PJR202]

Yeah, I get nervous just hitting them infield/outfield practice when I want to give 'em a hard one.

I hit IF/OF with an old 31" xeno or a modern 30" CF of I can swipe it from one of the naive 5th graders bag.

A CF is very predictable. A great bat for a polished hitter IMO, because you get out of it what you put in into it. There's no ghost/LXT type surprises. I've almost taken a couple heads off with those.

 

[CoachJD]

Having a coach who can throw actual semi-speedy windmill pitches would be like winning the lottery here. They did have one here a few years ago but she lasted through spring practice and about a third of the game season before there was a blowup and she quit. The players basically threatened to mutiny.

I really would like to get to the point that I can do it. I instruct pitching so surely I can get to walk-throughs under my own tutelage. I was getting it decently a couple years ago but took a shot to the hand that derailed me completely. Couldn't even carry a jug of milk for a few months. This has given me the resolve to get back to working on it..lol

It's not that hard to be halfway decent at it. You don't need perfect mechanics. You're not trying to throw 60. Get the ball over the plate most of the time at a decent speed.

Pitching is hard. Learning to throw BP shouldn't take long. Just practice throwing underhand.

I cannot really pitch. If I do a full windup and all that things get wonky. But if I'm standing 30 feet away I can toss strikes. And I've developed a decent change-up to keep them guessing a bit.

And if the girls can really hit, get behind a net!

 

[uncdrew]

Best windmill pitch I ever threw was to the 300lb grown man with a ghost that sent it back at my face, which ended up hitting my wrist and turning my whole hand and half my arm brown with internal bleeding.

My daughter said "it hit so hard a puff of dirt came off your hand."

Why would you pitch to a grown man with a composite bat? Were you goofing around again?

 

[PJR202]

Why would you pitch to a grown man with a composite bat? Were you goofing around again?

Essentially. I was pitching BP with full windmill and after the last batter the coach grabbed a ghose and asked me to throw him a few. I don't get too scared facing a batter like that, which is hilarious because I'm not a great infielder. Not even average probably. I think if I hadn't put my hand up it wouldn't have hit my face, but I've got this bad habit of catching pitches bare handed that started when I was on the bucket when my daughter could only throw 30mph. With no load on the legs it's hard to go after a high one on the right side with the glove hand, so I would just bare hand it. It's been a really hard habit to break. Even at higher speeds, my first instinct on that side still isn't always to use my glove hand.

 

[PJR202]

It's not that hard to be halfway decent at it. You don't need perfect mechanics. You're not trying to throw 60. Get the ball over the plate most of the time at a decent speed.

Pitching is hard. Learning to throw BP shouldn't take long. Just practice throwing underhand.

I cannot really pitch. If I do a full windup and all that things get wonky. But if I'm standing 30 feet away I can toss strikes. And I've developed a decent change-up to keep them guessing a bit.

And if the girls can really hit, get behind a net!

I pitch pretty well underhand, and I'll do it from 38ft or so, but a full windmill is something I need to work on. I'd like to just do a baby walk-in at 45mph or so.

 

[Batman8]

What the HC for our perennial State Div. I contender does for BP is he front tosses from behind a screen at 6’. Just a wrist snap needed but great results. His players can hit pitchers of any speed and any location!


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[Nuwin]

Going somewhat in a different direction... But yesterday was the first time I have paid any attention to college softball signings. I noticed on the social media posts for multiple schools, they list the travel team, NOT the high school.

So from a purely softball career standpoint... Just how important is high school? I understand value in friends and community. It was certainly a big deal to my small town team that made the state championship. But just trying to put leverage on the HS coach here. Diminishing their value might not be the right flex to get what you want, but I can be petty. HA!

Edit: The P5 schools anyway. Some of the smaller ones list hometown. Only one of our HS commits actually listed the high school name. All of our baseball commits listed the school.

 

[BucketDud]

Going somewhat in a different direction... But yesterday was the first time I have paid any attention to college softball signings. I noticed on the social media posts for multiple schools, they list the travel team, NOT the high school.

So from a purely softball career standpoint... Just how important is high school? I understand value in friends and community. It was certainly a big deal to my small town team that made the state championship. But just trying to put leverage on the HS coach here. Diminishing their value might not be the right flex to get what you want, but I can be petty. HA!

Edit: The P5 schools anyway. Some of the smaller ones list hometown. Only one of our HS commits actually listed the high school name. All of our baseball commits listed the school.

I think it is very easy to get the answer to this, how many times a year do you see a P5 coach scout a HS game vs TB?

They want to see how you compete against the type of players you will play with at their level. HS can be very hit or miss in terms of competition.