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    Jordan Taylor

    "the wrist not farther from the body than the elbow" Never quite understood what it meant, and I've never seen it called. Unless you use a pure "push" style of pitching I don't see how this is even physically possible. And honestly, if you see a player who is successful at a much higher level...
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    What would you do?

    You can't have your cake and eat it too. The intensity level of anyone who signs up a 9YO for year-round travel ball pretty much guarantees that they put a high value on winning. Even if they understand that the emphasis is on development, for most the only way to judge whether the development...
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    Coach Scenario....to play or not.

    They said that with a straight face? I appreciate that recruiting isn't easy, but if anyone could change the recruiting process it is obviously the recruiters themselves. I remember Candrea complaining that kids would switch travel teams to get more playing time, because we all know how much...
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    Tryout question

    I've seen where people had to come to practices for maybe three weeks before a coach made a decision, especially when they are at the young side for the team. But I'd say that significantly longer than that is questionable. Most players stay with their team through the summer (sometimes by...
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    DD experiencing finger pain

    As pitchers get older and start throwing harder, or with more spin, there comes a point where an inner padded glove is no longer a luxury. But it seems strange that a bruised finger would radiate pain to the back of the hand. Tendonitis in the wrist could maybe radiate, but that wouldn't cause...
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    2 strike approach

    It was not a political correctness thing. It was that the girls would be too self-conscious about (the size of) their butts to focus on playing. Hey, wasn't me who made it up; I just thought it was funny.
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    Battin Out-of-order question...

    In this note from the ASA March 2010 Plays and Clarifications it says Any outs made because of the improper batting stand. The next batter to bat would be the player whose name follows that of the batter who was declared out for not batting in proper order with one exception. The exception...
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    Just some observations....

    That sounds more like 1/3 of a bat.
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    Frustrated mom , discouraged daughter please help

    Sounds like you had a bad experience with rec ball. There are good rec leagues and bad rec leagues, just as there are good TB teams and bad TB teams. There isn't nearly sufficient information in this case to make such a blanket statement. I've seen many players who played rec till they started...
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    Just some observations....

    You put some football coaches and parents together on the internet, and I guarantee you'll get equally strong opinions;)! Are you sure about that? When Tim Tebow was having success at Florida, there was a lot of talk that he would never make it as a pro because his way of throwing didn't match...
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    2 strike approach

    From the ASA ACE coaching clinic: never use the word "butt" when coaching girls!
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    Bunting using only one hand?!?!

    I've seen a righty do it; by moving the bat only at the last moment it was quite effective because it looked more like a swing than a bunt, and caught everyone off guard. But it was more a cool trick than "this is how the college players do it", and she was already quite a good regular bunter...
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    More DP/flex sub questions

    No, see the follow-ups. The flex can run if you take the player who is the DP out. But if you want the same DP player to play again, she has to be put back in, which uses up her one re-entry.
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    Confessions of a radar gun addict, or: How fast do 12U pitchers really throw?

    Nice one! Did you offer him a beer too:cool:?
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    lefty natural curve?

    Correct, but the term he used was 'left batters box', which is probably the batter's box on the left, as seen from the umpires point of view (the box used by right-handed batters).
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    Frustrated – 10YOA DD

    From personal experience, this is primarily a problem felt by the coaches, maybe by a few parents, and probably not at all by the players. Most 10 year olds have forgotten the score by the time they get the after-game snack. Unless a player feels that it is her personal fault that you always...
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    More DP/flex sub questions

    To summarize for the OP: Yes Regardless of what you call it, at that point the DP is out of the game. No. Correct. And to think this is one of the simpler scenarios :)
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    More DP/flex sub questions

    I meant "the person who was the DP is out of the game" after running for her twice.
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    More DP/flex sub questions

    That seems semantic hair-splitting. Maybe this is not a "formal substitution", but for the DP the effect is the same as that of a substitution. The link you provided describes this as a "half-substition", and says the DP is removed from the game, and the substitute re-entry rules apply to the...
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    Fielding Masks in College

    DD, a pitcher, broke her nose during her college freshmen year, not while pitching but while trying to field a ground ball during practice. Apparently the (female) coaches urged her to wear a facemask after that, figuring that she might otherwise play too tentatively, but DD refused with the...

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