Pitchback recommendations?

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Jun 28, 2016
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My 12-year-old pitcher is looking for a pitchback -- she'd rather have the fielding practice of a ball coming off the net, than pitch with a bucket of balls and fetch them out of the Bownet when she's done. There's Rukket, Champro, Skilz, etc. A lot of these are sold as "baseball" or "baseball/softball" and I'm concerned that the bigger, heavier softball will just kick off the net and roll two feet instead of coming back the way a baseball would.

Has anyone used any pitchbacks, any recommendations?
 
Nov 18, 2015
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I recently bought one of the "Primed" ones from DSG. My daughter and I have only used it a few times, but she now wears her facemask while trying to practice pitching into it. :eek: Maybe b/c it's new, and the bungee cords haven't stretched out yet - but even when I just do something like the 9:00 drill (small backswing), the ball really gets back to me in a hurry. I think the "bigger, heavier softball" actually reacts opposite of what you're expecting.
 

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