Sure it could! Take the illegal pitcher out of the game, and its a whole different scenario. I raced for years, you could do wonders with an high horse illegal engine, as long as nobody cares.
illegal pitches?
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- Jun 8, 2016
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My view on this is that my main (only) concern (as a parent and not a coach) is my kid's performance...she should care how her team does, I don't have to. If my kid cannot hit a pitcher I am not blaming the pitcher, legal or not. If she cannot hit somebody throwing 60 illegally she won't be able to hit somebody throwing 60 legally..that is how I view it 
In short, a miracle. Maybe if there were a crackdown at the college level it would trickle down, but I doubt it. The "top" pitchers in our state are almost all crow hoppers. Even at the college level you see teams promoting themselves using photos and videos of their pitchers doing obviously illegal pitches. Nobody cares, except the suckers who pay for pitching lessons and spend time making sure their kids pitch legally.
- May 17, 2012
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No. It did not matter. Illegal or legal a kid throwing 60+ at 14u is super talented and is going to beat you either way.
She threw it over the plate and you didn't hit it. End of story.
- Jun 20, 2015
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go back to a version of illegal pitches being a ball on batter and runners advance one base. And force umpires to call it.
Thats the hard part, getting enforced.
her "talent" was illegal. Like I previously said when forced to be just somewhat legal, she lost her edge. More balls, and hits given up. Both games I watched were not runaway games, both were low scoring. Defense was great on both teams, so my question was never if one team or the other should have won, but if Umps have anything to enforce other than "illegal pitch, ball!" over and over and over again.
1. Didn’t most sanctions make leaping legal this year?
2. The advance 1 base was a terrible rule as it mimicked baseball. But the balk in baseball is for
Deceiving the runners, not the batter. The hope was by making the penalty less punitive it would be called more. And if it was being called every 4 pitches or so, that seems to be the case
2. The advance 1 base was a terrible rule as it mimicked baseball. But the balk in baseball is for
Deceiving the runners, not the batter. The hope was by making the penalty less punitive it would be called more. And if it was being called every 4 pitches or so, that seems to be the case
- May 17, 2012
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It's like saying you lost because the pitcher wore an optic yellow uniform. If you say so.
- Jun 20, 2015
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no Leaping was not made legal.
