Control is everything. Good batters don't hit drops, rises, fastballs, or changeups...they hit mistakes. If a pitch is over the middle of the plate, it doesn't matter how much a ball moved up, down or sideways before it got there...it is going over the fence.
If your DD can't control the pitch 99.5% of the time, she doesn't know how to throw the pitch. The only way a teenager can get that kind of control is to focus on *ONE* movement pitch. (Osterman is about the only pitcher I've seen with multiple movement pitches...but, I wouldn't count on your kid being another Osterman.)
If a kid starts to learning two or three movement pitches, she will have two or three mediocre movement pitches. Mediocre movement doesn't work in college.
This is a video of one of @Hillhouse students. She throws a rise and fastball throughout the whole game, with a changeup thrown in every once in a while.
Look at this kid's control...she found the edge of the ump's strike zone early in the game, and then she stays right at the edge throughout the whole game.
If your DD can't control the pitch 99.5% of the time, she doesn't know how to throw the pitch. The only way a teenager can get that kind of control is to focus on *ONE* movement pitch. (Osterman is about the only pitcher I've seen with multiple movement pitches...but, I wouldn't count on your kid being another Osterman.)
If a kid starts to learning two or three movement pitches, she will have two or three mediocre movement pitches. Mediocre movement doesn't work in college.
This is a video of one of @Hillhouse students. She throws a rise and fastball throughout the whole game, with a changeup thrown in every once in a while.
Look at this kid's control...she found the edge of the ump's strike zone early in the game, and then she stays right at the edge throughout the whole game.