Hello DFPers!
My daughter is 15yo pitcher. She took a year off back in 2019 and came back successfully for the 2020 high school season. She got the majority of the starts and was 2nd team all conference as a freshman. She has since joined a very competitive travel team and has done great so far this fall season, both in travel and in High School fall ball.
The H.S. coach last year was very inexperienced with the game in general, and the difficulty my daughter had was with pitch calling, especially in pitchers counts (0-2, 1-2) where she gave up hits more often than she should. This year she has a new H.S. coach and it is obvious that there is a similar issue in those same situations. This coach is an improvement with game knowledge as she played in college, but I don't think there is a clear plan when it comes to calling pitches. I've talked to my daughter about making the batters chase on those counts, but for a couple of reasons it seems like she's not comfortable pitching outside of what is called. We have very inexperienced catchers and she thinks she should throw what the coach calls - and there are no calls on the wristband that are waste pitches/chase pitches. She usually has the same catcher catching for her, who will likely be the starter when Spring season comes around, so I was wondering if they should come up with a plan for those situations.
My question is this, what is a good plan? How does it get communicated properly?
Any advice would be greatly appreciated! If more info is needed please let me know.
Thanks!
My daughter is 15yo pitcher. She took a year off back in 2019 and came back successfully for the 2020 high school season. She got the majority of the starts and was 2nd team all conference as a freshman. She has since joined a very competitive travel team and has done great so far this fall season, both in travel and in High School fall ball.
The H.S. coach last year was very inexperienced with the game in general, and the difficulty my daughter had was with pitch calling, especially in pitchers counts (0-2, 1-2) where she gave up hits more often than she should. This year she has a new H.S. coach and it is obvious that there is a similar issue in those same situations. This coach is an improvement with game knowledge as she played in college, but I don't think there is a clear plan when it comes to calling pitches. I've talked to my daughter about making the batters chase on those counts, but for a couple of reasons it seems like she's not comfortable pitching outside of what is called. We have very inexperienced catchers and she thinks she should throw what the coach calls - and there are no calls on the wristband that are waste pitches/chase pitches. She usually has the same catcher catching for her, who will likely be the starter when Spring season comes around, so I was wondering if they should come up with a plan for those situations.
My question is this, what is a good plan? How does it get communicated properly?
Any advice would be greatly appreciated! If more info is needed please let me know.
Thanks!