- Mar 28, 2013
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I'm sharing this because some of you out there that think sticking with IR and justifying it to coaches is tuff at the 10-12-14 levels , just wait till you get to 16-18.Next year my older DD ages out of 14 u and was approached by the top 16-u team in the state. great record for college placement ,always has good athletes, good coaches. So we show up at the private tryout and they have her warm up her arm after the usual drills. So my DD is fourteen and these girls were mostly 17 and all good players. So they point to the circle and say get in sister. up she goes, holds her own, a few strike outs, lots of poorly hit grounders, and pop flies. all with a catcher calling her game who met her 20 minutes prior.She threw to their entire line up, not one Batter got home. Her mix of speed and spin along with a nice change kept them off balance the entire time credit to her being a long time IR type pitcher. Then they had her warm up Batting. they warmed up all the aces. during warm up they all threw the biggest nicest Hello Elbow you ever saw. I thought right away this is not good.So watching them throw only their number 1 threw harder and none of them had movement other than a drop although they had a good change and hit their spots ok. Batting against all three my DD walked, singled, ground out twice.so on Base 500. After Practice they pulled us aside and the coach said she did a great job and would make the team IF,IF she started Taking pitching lesson from the biggest hello elbow instructor in the state. Don't know if we did the right thing But after we reflected for a while we passed on the offer the next day.(something I don't think happens often) Love my Kid though, once we had decided she looked at me and said "cant wait to smoke em next year". Since then she got another offer from another Good reputable team that loves her mechanics. Remaining true to the mechanics you believe in is not always easy but it always the right thing to do.