I have seen far more young girls suffer from a bat that's too heavy than from one that is too light. We had a girl on my daughter's team at 10U swinging a drop 10 grandpa bought. We traded with my daughter who was stronger swinging a drop 11 after I told the-10 parents it was too heavy. She...
1 hour 15 minutes there and 35 minutes home due to traffic. 2 to 3x per week in season. Totally worth it though we drive by about 5 other viable teams on the way.
It happened for us at second year 14U and when we joined a team where the replacement hitter was not a massive drop-off. As she was P1, the physical and emotional toll of pitching a lot made her migrate to being happy with that. I liked it because it protected her from increasingly costly...
Makes sense...I'd add that what a pitcher is trying to achieve is deception of the hitter and I think the spin while less important in raw inches may be more important in deception.
I was recently at a camp of a top 20 program. The head coach spent about 2 hours with pitchers parked in front of a rapsodo analyzing their data. On a rise ball they are trying to get 8+ inches of deviation from path (this is measured as vertical break on the rapsodo) at elite levels (most...
If she's in socal, there has to be a more competitive team where she could start or at least play a lot. I'd go there unless she has a lot of untapped potential that can be developed to get plenty of playing time on the elite team...also, does she play SD or OF also? More options than one...