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...
Looked to me like some lacked a truly effective change that could be located on any count. Biggest issue though seems to be the combination of being unable to precisely locate multiple pitches coupled with the brutal strike zone leaving absolutely no margin for error. So many pitchers gave...
My DD throws a knuckle change. It has been picked so we've been experimenting with getting the grip mid arm circle which surprisingly is going pretty well though she doesn't have huge hands.
I think there is some truth. I feared for the OSU pitcher's life as she caught about 5 back at her. Only one that I recall drilled her, but with a zone that tight you get many more up the middle and at the barrel.
Kenny Gayeski at OSU said in an interview that the balls were hard as "marbles". I watched like 10 games on TV and my assessment is that the strike zone was really tight leading to walks and pitchers behind in counts catching barrels. The balls were also juiced as kenny suggested despite...