- Jul 1, 2019
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I'm not totally sure it takes a quantum computer to find flaws in a 12U swing (plus it wasn't windy so that was fortunate for his calculations). I will say that overall I'm seeing most pitchers being told to throw low and away 90% of the time right now, leading to batters crowding the plate to reach the outside. Being able to work both sides comfortably plus changing speeds kept a fair amount of the batters she faced off balance, rather than most pitching calling resulting in just trying to blow a fastball past them on the outside. No different than throwing every pitch inside and hoping they never catch up to it. I guess in the long run, I'd still rather have her learning the art of pitch selection now rather than at 16U.Hmm...maybe.
"Pitch calling strategy is very complicated...study the batters, study their swing, study their batting stance. Determine wind speed and wind direction. Check the tide tables and the farmers almanac. Plug the info into my new quantum computer, running the latest greatest artificial intelligence directly from MIT...and...voila...low and inside to 12U batters."
In other news: 12U kids like ice cream.
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