- Oct 3, 2009
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Hello,
I have a 10yr daughter that pitched a little last year with no coaching and has pitched this year with a pitching coach. Myself and her mother are wondering when should we expect to see improvement in her pitching?
So far this year in 40.5 innings she has thrown 831 pitches, 380 strikes, 451 balls. She has 79 strikeouts and 71 walks.
We were hoping to see improvement over the last two months, but so far she seems to stay around 50/50.
When she practices (100 to 150 pitches a day), she throws fast and accurate. When in games she slows down and gets a little wild. She wants to be a pitcher so bad.
Are we expecting to much to soon?
Any input would be great, we want to see her succeed with her dream.
For what it is worth, the thing I have noticed with my daughter is it seems like there is little change for a period of time and then suddenly wham big things click. And alot of the progress my daughter makes is in the off-season where we have the time to really work on things in a deeper way with her PC. In the summer season she is pitching so many games it is hard to get in that quality time. Although we are lucky in that her pitching coach does attend her games when possible. But then you are balancing making big tweaks versus little digestible changes. Not sure that helps alot but is my experience.
The one thing I have learned is to just sit back and enjoy watching her do her thing. Earlier in her career I would get all wound up if she was doing this or that or the other. We still chat after the game on the right home but it is much more factual and me letting her do self-analysis versus me doing all the talking.