After 18U, What is next?

[Sparky Guy]

Sluggers brings up a good point, I think pitchers need some type of "leave". I'm not qualified to say just how much, but most all of us need time to decompress and release the pressure of such a physically and mentally demanding position.

That is up to each individual player. My DD (Pitcher) would take 5-6 weeks to let her body try to catch up before she started throwing again. Some girls may require less, some more.

Sorry for the rant, sometimes I wish I'd done things different now that I'm older and wiser.

Nothing wrong with it at all. 20/20 vision of the past is one of the things that everyone possesses.