Papa Pump...dd#1 is a similiar age. Going into the winter last, dd already had a decent drop and change up. Silly me - I was determined to add a rise, screw, @ curve in the offseason. We started down that road...but along with school and everything else it just took too much time to master. I remember a Hillhouse video talking about how screws/curves stay on the same...so I started thinking about that from a hitter's standpoint. I would hate to deal with a pitcher that could make the ball move up and down. We started working primariy on the rise @ making sure that her 3 pitches had the same EXACT delivery. By mid-season, she was throwing any of the her 3 pitches during any count and it was driving the hitters crazy because you could cleary see them guessing. Way more swing and misses or just staring at 3rd strikes. We do have a lot of work to do to sharpen her breaks but I can say that dd really felt good knowing she could throw any pitch for any count. Good post and good luck!