This is the HELL NO ELBOW page!
Random mom tries to change one of my pitchers
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Always thought DFP stood for Don't F with my Pitcher... Yikes, that would be an interesting t-shirt...
- Jul 20, 2013
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The hardest part about our pitching practice is trying to actually teach the other girls Hell No Elbow...my DD is the only IR out of the 4-5 training pitchers. I end up catching for a bunch of them and respect the PC's wishes to make the other girls slower than mine so, oh well. Hell No Elbow it is for the others.
Our team is weird, we have the the "no parent wants anything to do with practices" syndrome. We're lucky if we have 2 parents watch, just watch a practice. Getting involved and "helping"? That might be asking too much of them.
Our team is weird, we have the the "no parent wants anything to do with practices" syndrome. We're lucky if we have 2 parents watch, just watch a practice. Getting involved and "helping"? That might be asking too much of them.
They aren't under the impression of anything. They KNOW you don't know what you're doing!
Mine is the only pitcher that uses IR but she is also the slowest. :/ 10u coaches would like for her to change to HE but I don't think it's going to happen lol
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I'll bet she's got the best spin, though.
I have been really happy to listen to the college games, and the commentators are saying, "This girl is an effective pitcher because of her spin. You probably won't see high 60's from her, but she really works the zone and has incredible spin." Yay! At least they are letting young girls know that there's more than one way to do work for their team.
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I have to admit it. I never had a random person come up and suggest anything to my DD while she was pitcing when I was around. She never told me about anyone when I wasn't there. But, I guess when a pitcher is throwing 60+ at 14 there's not too much they can "fix".
I see plenty of kids doing all kinds of things wrong and I have to keep reminding myself. Not my circus, not my monkey.
Back in the day I had another TB Coach tell my daughter that she needed to quit throwing a riseball and learn to throw a rollover drop.
"...college coaches do not want riseball pitchers they only want dropball pitchers."
We still laugh about that one.
- Jun 12, 2015
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My 10U dd isn't a speed demon either but her location is better than many 10U pitchers I've seen and she has a really good change up. The old coach was enamored with this girl who threw a bit faster, but it's a fastball down the middle and nothing else most of the time. Her change up was a very predictable ball every single time. Giant rainbow. And her location, not variable. We scrimmaged a good local team and my "slow poke" struck out almost every batter she faced. He switched out for the other pitcher who was faster and they clobbered her. Good hitters, so a fast ball down the middle at maybe 45-46 mph doesn't scare them much. Boom, into the outfield with you, mr. softball.
At 10U a kid with great command is going to be a stud. Movement and velocity will come, but without command you are doomed.
I got a good look at the middle of the plate v the edges of the plate at a HS game last year. The pitcher for one team threw fairly hard - harder than the other team's pitcher - but she kept getting smoked by a good hitting team. The other team's pitcher threw the corners, especially on the inside, with a nice tail-in at the end of a lot of her pitches. She completely baffled those hitters.
It's the Nuke Lalouche syndrome - they ain't seen my heat yet. Yeah they have. Ring the dinner bell as a feast will be going on.
It's the Nuke Lalouche syndrome - they ain't seen my heat yet. Yeah they have. Ring the dinner bell as a feast will be going on.
