How much is too much
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I don't think highly of coaches who ride their pitchers without thought for their well being.
Disagree with your disagreement.
She is probly 14, she needs to stand up for herself. DW and me and not far behind but they need to stand up for themselves.
So if a coach is placing your DD in a position that clearly represents a threat to her health and welfare your solution is to let her handle it? Wow!
You are in a mood.
Never said that in either post, she has first chance to solve it. Mentioned parent in both posts.
Never said that in either post, she has first chance to solve it. Mentioned parent in both posts.
There is a time to let kids handle things on their own and there are times to be a parent. Not talking about a discussion about playing time, or what position she plays. When your kid is being placed in a position where her health and welfare is at risk you need to be a parent and take care of business not play silly games. The coach(es) have already demonstrated some very poor judgement and as such the parent needs to handle the matter immediately and decisively.
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I side with Riseball. If you ask a kid if they can go they will say yes. Our team has a lot of economically disadvantaged players. For most tournaments and I would guess when these kids play High School less than half the parents are there. Also you get the football playing father who thinks you can tough out anything. If the coaches aren't on board with safety there will come a time when they are forced to do something. While most coaches are pretty good about it, I have little doubt that there are those out there who would go coach Kilmer on a player and shoot them up in order to get them to play in a seemingly big game.
My wife and I spoke to the coach. We initially asked could we speak to him and he said to have DD come speak to him first. Of course we said no. Basically, told him that what they are asking her to do is not healthy mentally or physically. Coach said that she's the cause of her pitch counts being so high. Said she keeps getting behind in the count and fighting back...which he's right in regards to getting behind. I told him it doesn't matter how the pitch count became high...it's still high. She needs help and this isn't an option.
He said he'll see who he can pull down from varsity
He said he'll see who he can pull down from varsity
Well done!!!
It's a little disturbing that his first reaction was "it's her fault." It shows he's not thinking about her health.
School teams can't really control how many pitchers they have, but they can control how many games they play. I purposefully never scheduled games on more than two days in a row this past year because I went into the season with 1 actual pitcher and 1 girl who could sometimes pitch but has had a history of shoulder trouble.
I know I do things a bit differently from other coaches, but if I found myself in a situation where I had literally nobody to pitch, I'd cancel the game or take the forfeit L before I'd force a kid to pitch that much.
