dd want to move to pitch only

Sparky Guy said:

When my DD was playing she was an average fielder. Her home to 1st times could be timed with a sun dial. She was a .150 hitter on a good day. But she excelled at pitching and fielding the pitcher position. So she concentrated on pitching.

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Sounds like you're talking about my daughter. She's the most non athletic person you can imagine but somehow she's an outstanding pitcher. I never thought she would have a chance to be a college athlete but now that she's in high school my hopes have gone from total pipe dream to "well maybe it could happen."

Glad to hear of other slow girls making it.

If you’re looking at college pitchers they don’t have to be fit. There’s quite a few current college pitchers who are obese.

But pitching, other than needing to last 7 innings, (which isn’t always required) is not an athletic position. It’s skill.

Lozza said:

But pitching, other than needing to last 7 innings, (which isn’t always required) is not an athletic position. It’s skill.

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You're crazy. This is the old, "Oh, I could've been a contender if I had just worked harder". That just BS. Daddies and piitching coaches don't make good pitchers.

The reason pitchers get a full ride and because MLB pitchers get paid so much is because there are very few people who can pitch. It takes a combination of athleticism, brains and skill to be a good pitcher.

Let's get this straight...in order to be a good pitcher, the pitcher's hand has to be going somewhere greater than 60MPH at release, and she has to release the ball in a time window of a few milliseconds. And, she has to do this over and over and over again, every 5 minutes.

For comparison, Usain Bolt, the greater sprinter ever, ran at 27MPH for 10 seconds. And he only did that once a day.

Pitching is the most challenging position on the field. A good pitcher throws 100 to 120 pitches at maximum physical and mental effort. Nobody puts more effort into a game than the pitcher. It is an endurance position, both mentally and physically. Good pitchers are physically and mentally exhausted at the end of the game.

Catchers work every pitch as well. But, they don't have to give 100% physical effort on each pitch. The other players rarely give 100% effort, and then they have lots of rest between each event.

That's akin to saying Tiger woods isn't an athlete all he does is take a walk

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If you required athletic ability to be a pitcher we wouldn’t have so many elite pitchers who were overweight, not obese. And watching D1 the last few weeks there’s a not insignificant amount of pitchers who fit those category’s.

It doesn’t make them less skilled. Or work any less. But there’s a reason you don’t see pretty much any other position with obese players (excluding batters only) who excel.

Lozza said:

If you required athletic ability to be a pitcher we wouldn’t have so many elite pitchers who were overweight, not obese. And watching D1 the last few weeks there’s a not insignificant amount of pitchers who fit those category’s.

It doesn’t make them less skilled. Or work any less. But there’s a reason you don’t see pretty much any other position with obese players (excluding batters only) who excel.

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You're just plain wrong. Yes there are some who are overweight, just as there are at other positions. No, they won't be getting on base by running out bunts or slapping, but in almost every case they are so much more athletic than you know. In most cases, if they showed up at a "church league" or recreational league of almost any sport they would be dominant. I've spent time around some of the "obese" MLB pitchers people talk about and if you play recreational volleyball, basketball, golf, etc with them they will dominate everyone but the most elite athletes.

I’m an obese pitcher who has played for 20 years at all levels of the game in my country.

But sure. I don’t know anything.

I think we've all learned from listening to announcers and former pitchers talk about the sport that it is indeed possible to have played for many years and know very little

But someone who never played should be listened to?

Pitcher is not in itself a position that requires great athleticism. It’s a bonus but it’s not required. It’s also one of the most skilled positions in sport. (And part of the reason both baseball/softball pitchers aren’t athletic is because of the time required for the skill) It’s not a position anyone can just pick up.

Lozza said:

If you’re looking at college pitchers they don’t have to be fit. There’s quite a few current college pitchers who are obese.

But pitching, other than needing to last 7 innings, (which isn’t always required) is not an athletic position. It’s skill.

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That is a totally inaccurate statement.

Pitchers need to be in pitching condition physically. It is much different than being conditioned to run and make other game related physical movements. The amount of endurance it takes to throw over 100 pitches at 100% in a game is something that really doesn't have a metric to measure it. About the only way to tell if a pitcher is tiring is when a her velocity and movement drop late in a game.

One of the things I see with pitchers is them hitting the wall later in a full 7 inning game. Too often pitchers lessons will be 30 minutes. If they go out and practice, it's for 30 minutes. When they are young many of the games have short time limits so they may only pitch 4 innings in a game with a few running longer. There girls who can not go 10 or 11 innings and still be strong if their team needs them.

When my DD was younger I would take her out for 60 minutes. Then I started to increase the time slowly a few minutes each session until she was able to go 90 minutes and still be strong. The majority of the time was 60 minutes with a longer session thrown in to make sure she was able to stay strong for an extended period of time. It's not uncommon in college for the pitcher in the first game to have to pitch in the 2nd game.