- Apr 11, 2016
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DD joined her current 10U team last year. She loves this team, good coaches and great teammates. However, we haven't gotten a lot of games in this season (only one tournament so far, and 2 more scheduled. We are disappointed with the lack of playtime, but that's another story.) When we asked her to practice pitching, she would respond, "We don't have any games scheduled, so what's the point?"
She got as much pitching time as the coaches could give her given the few games we've played so far. However, we feel that she hasn't pitched enough in 10U. She isn't tall so she doesn't have much speed, but she could place the ball well and pitch several different types of pitches.
We are thinking to have her quit pitching in 12U in the Fall. We worry that with so little real game experience, that she would not be able to keep up when she moves up to 12" ball and farther distance. My question is, does having actual game playtime important for a pitcher at 10U? Is she going to be behind when she goes to 12U? I don't want to ask her PC b/c I don't want her to know yet if we decide to quit pitching.
She got as much pitching time as the coaches could give her given the few games we've played so far. However, we feel that she hasn't pitched enough in 10U. She isn't tall so she doesn't have much speed, but she could place the ball well and pitch several different types of pitches.
We are thinking to have her quit pitching in 12U in the Fall. We worry that with so little real game experience, that she would not be able to keep up when she moves up to 12" ball and farther distance. My question is, does having actual game playtime important for a pitcher at 10U? Is she going to be behind when she goes to 12U? I don't want to ask her PC b/c I don't want her to know yet if we decide to quit pitching.