No. Kids are being killed in this sport. I would never use a catcher with that mentality.
I have seen coaches call fastballs inside to girls who looked too comfortable at the plate telling their pitcher, "If you hit them; you hit them."
I heard from other coaches during the tournament that that was his intentional brush back sign and his pitchers aggressively went after the batters knees when given the sign. It is one thing to throw a brush back pitch, that is part of the game. It is entirely another thing to try and go after a players knee.
This is one thing that I think should be MORE common. In baseball, it used to not be an issue, until MLB players started getting millions of $$ to hit, and then people got really really excited about anything high and tight.
Most teams pitch outside corner (and farther) as long as they can get the call. Older girls with good screwballs can go in on the hands. But a good hard fastball, shoulder high, about 3 inches away, sends a statement. You see a few college pitchers do it.....Daniel Laurie has no problem going in there.
Too many good hitters just get to set up to hit the outside pitch. A great way to deal with slappers, especially the younger ones, is to buzz the first pitch up and in. Lots of girls will start to "peel off" the next pitch because of it, which sets up the outside pitch.
Never figured out why it's OK to miss a foot outside, but more than a couple of inches inside, and it's a bad thing.
Do girls that young really have that much control?
The mentality it takes to coach kids to throw fastballs at one another is something I cannot understand.
At the youth level, any brush back pitch should be purely accidental. That 'part of the game' rationale is bullshit.
I would hate to see how ugly things would get if I ever even suspected that an opposing team was intentionally throwing at my players.