I would like to know of some of the more subtle differences in baseball vs fastpitch that some of you coaches with experience have noticed in your years of coaching girls softball. Not so much with hitting but more on defensive strategies.
I am sure there are a lot of male coaches that grew up playing baseball and when they got into coaching softball realized that some of these strategies didn't work very well with girls due to the different dimensions of the playing field.
If it makes any difference my daughter is playing 10u travel ball.
An example of something that I have noticed that is quite different is that in softball with runners on first and second it is very common to to see the shortstop cover 3rd base on a steal. Little more difficult to do in baseball with 90' bases imo.
Something that I would be curious about in regards to softball would be with a runner on first, in what situation would you have the 2nd baseman cover 2nd base on a steal instead of the shortstop? In softball the 2nd baseman usually has a responsibility to also cover 1st base in case there is a bunt or the batter is just faking the bunt.
I am sure there are a lot of male coaches that grew up playing baseball and when they got into coaching softball realized that some of these strategies didn't work very well with girls due to the different dimensions of the playing field.
If it makes any difference my daughter is playing 10u travel ball.
An example of something that I have noticed that is quite different is that in softball with runners on first and second it is very common to to see the shortstop cover 3rd base on a steal. Little more difficult to do in baseball with 90' bases imo.
Something that I would be curious about in regards to softball would be with a runner on first, in what situation would you have the 2nd baseman cover 2nd base on a steal instead of the shortstop? In softball the 2nd baseman usually has a responsibility to also cover 1st base in case there is a bunt or the batter is just faking the bunt.