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Pitch Count Recommendations For Youth Pitchers

Pitch Count Recommendations For Youth Pitchers

Our recommendations are based on research studies, analysis and personal experiences.

-Main focus is on athletic movements, agility, athleticism and fun. They are still kids. -Develop fundamentals, technique, sense of team, create goals, etc -Properly stretch and warm up. Develop a routine! -Set an expectation of pitch counts and rest. Stick to them! This will take lots of discipline because…

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NJSIAA implements new baseball pitch-count rule

ROBBINSVILLE – Gone are the days of marathon pitching performances in New Jersey high school baseball. On Wednesday, the NJSIAA Executive Committee unanimously approved a rule that will cap pitcher…

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Joly: NYSPHSAA's pitch count rules are a welcomed improvement

Joly: NYSPHSAA’s pitch count rules are a welcomed improvement

On Friday afternoon, the New York State Public High School Athletics Association (NYSPHSAA) came out with regulations for the number of pitches a pitcher can throw in a game and how many days’ rest required for the amount thrown. Finally. This has been a raging issue for years throughout amateur baseball, and it’s good to see the state stepped up to the plate and made these regulations. They are…

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NFHS Institutes Pitch Counts, Affects Announcers

NFHS Changes Baseball Rules, Affects Announcers @NFHS_Org #PAAnnouncer #pitchcount #highschool #baseball

The National Federation of High Schools has made a change to baseball rules effective this upcoming season that will affect P. A. announcers across the country.  Unlike the rules instituted on basketball a couple of years ago, these changes were made in the spirit of well-being of the athletes and we highly endorse these changes.

NFHS:  Pitching Restrictions Policies in Baseball to be Based on…

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Is your kid a victim of excessive pitching?

Is your kid a victim of excessive pitching?

Excessive Pitching

Pitching, especially for young arms that are still growing, puts a massive volume of stress on joints, ligaments and tendons. Injuries to wrists, elbows, rotator-cuffs, ligaments, and tendons can be caused from unwarranted pitching but can be mainly circumvented if players and coaches follow a few modest rules:

Make sure pitchers follow league rules concerning the maximum…

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Baseball Timit Scoutwatch Measures Pitch Speed and Keeps Pitch Count

Baseball Timit Scoutwatch Measures Pitch Speed and Keeps Pitch Count Radar guns are OBSOLETE! Keep accurate track of pitch speeds from PeeWee to Pro with the new, patented Timit ScoutWatchTM Measure the speed of a pitch from any location on the field or in the stands - even on someone warming up in the bullpen. It eliminates the need to position yourself behind the catcher as you would with a radar gun. The Timit ScoutWatchTM also keeps the pitch count and will display the runners time to first or the catcher release time to second while still capturing the speed of a pitch in MPH. It's amazing! Defaults to 60' distance when turned on.

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pointless rant that few people will probably read

I am a baseball fan. But one of the biggest slap to the face for all mlb fans (I think right now) is this giant amount of bullshit with babying players and trying to preserve their health by doing crap like setting up an innings limit and resting them without much rhyme or reason.

The big example I'm talking about right now is Strausburg down in D.C. Granted, he's been hurt quite frequently (had Tommy John surgery last season. For those of you who don't know what it is, he had a ligament in his pitching elbow repaired). He's right now the most DOMINANT pitcher in baseball. He's the only reason why the National's are in the hunt for the playoffs. He's the ace. And they're going to shut him down in early September because he'll have thrown 160+ innings. I'm sorry, what? ONLY 160 innings?!?! This is a kid that hasn't thrown a COMPLETE SEASON yet and he's in his THIRD YEAR! He's going to be up for free angency in a year, and I would go and see who would let me pitch the entire season after this crap getting pulled! He's a major league ball player who's been hurt. It's up to him to know when his body has had enough and up to him to do what it takes to help him last longer without getting hurt. Shutting him down isn't going to do anything to help him. If anything, the Yankees have proven that it's going to screw him up next season.

I'm talking about Phil Hughes and Joba Chamberlen. Phil and Joba (well, Joba got moved back into the bullpen to become a long inning reliever [meaning he'll pitch like 3 innings as opposed to 1]) are pitchers for the Yankees who as starting pitchers were given strict rest and inning's pitched limits to ensure that they won't get hurt and can go a full season at the top of their games. Well, when they put the innings limit on Phil in 2010, you saw what became the problems that popped up in 2011 (before he went on the D.L. [disabled list]) that festered when he came back this season in September of 2010. Joba got even more screwed up with this innings limit and pitch count nonsense. He got demoted back to the bullpen, and STILL had to have Tommy John surgery causing him to miss half of 2011. And then he screwed up his ankel so bad that he didn't come back until earlier this month!

These are major league pitchers. Grown men given lots of money to do something that is physically taxing day in day out. When they get older, then yes, they are going to need some more rest here and there. But when you're in your mid 20's, your body will repair and heal itself faster than when you're in your late 30's. But if you've gone 10+ seasons throwing 110-120 pitches per start over the course of a 160+ game season, you will be so used to it that it's not going to be an issue at all! These babying tactics are going to inhibit the better pitchers of this era not make it well past the time they're 34. C.C. Sabathia, Justin Verlander and Felix Hernandez are the only handful of pitchers who are allowed to throw more than 100 pitches per start and still make it through the season (C.C. has been hurt this season, but he's going to have more games and innings pitched than Strausburg) and it was because THEY DID IT WHEN THEY WERE KIDS!

So treat these players like big boys! If they can't go a complete season throwing 100+ pitches or 6 innings a game, you're not going to have a pitching rotation that lasts longer than 5 years before you need to get a new pitcher.