Average speed

riseball said:

You mean limited like Delanie Gourley from Florida? What a shame.

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djcarter1966 said:

OK let's start with she is 11...nobody has any kind of idea what her true potential is. Most of it will be limited by the amount of drive and passion she has in her.

She has a growth spurt in her no doubt, if you and your wife are both under 5ft 6in maybe it's hopeless but you still never know. Not to mention size is not a good indicator of pitching prowess

It can not be over emphasized that she needs to have control. Try this; just divide the zone into high, low, inside and outside now during your next pitching session call say 25 pitches start all fastballs alternating zones high and outside then low and inside etc. after 25 pitches did she hit the target around 75% of the time or better. If the answer is no then I would stop trying to throw four different pitches and concentrate on location without losing any speed and working in the change up. She has plenty of time to learn pitches but if she does not have control what is the point of calling a low outside screwball if she is only hitting the spot half the time, I personally don't regularly call pitches until a pitcher has control because you are wasting your time until then it's fastball below the belt outer half unless I call something else which is maybe a change up if the batter is making good contact or inside if I feel she is crowding the plate too much.

Honestly her effort is going to determine what she can accomplish...if she really driven to be the best pitcher and wants to work hard at it...if so get a quality pitching coach and get to work, if you can't find one, post a video of her and we would be happy to help. If she starts working now there is no reason she can't be hitting 50 and consistently hitting her locations before the spring season starts up. Having solid mechanics is a lot more important than how many pitches she has or speed those things can follow only if oyu have a good base to work from. As far as being a good HS pitcher it's a complete crap shoot I know a really good pitcher that pitched on a solid TB team that never saw quality minutes on Varsity her Freshman and Sophomore year we had an All State D1 recruit ahead of her so she just threw on JV to get circle time, then her Junior year another stud Sophomore pitcher got the #1 spot and she just floated between JV and Varsity to get minutes, but the #2 on her TB team and numerous pitcher she ran over during TB season were all starting for their Varsity teams and different school...sometimes life is not fair...she got frustrated and concentrated on her travel/school volleyball teams and never played softball her senior year.

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Tango said:

DD throws 4X a week. 3X with me and 1X with her PC. As a 10 year old she played 12U TB and Rec ball, 73% first pitch strikes, nothing thrown down the middle on the first pitch. She does throw first pitch CB and CU sometimes. Control is pretty good for her age. She is a very well rounded kid and I'm not sure what her future holds as far as wanting to play after HS but unless something drastically changes she will work very hard through at less HS. Proud of her as kid.

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