PitchingFan posted:TerribleBPthrower posted:Looks like my 2023 C is going to get the start at SS on Tuesday for varsity. The starter is injured and no idea how long he’ll be out. Guess I better take him out and hit some balls to him.
I guess a positive is we won’t have to worry about him throwing back to the pitcher 😜
Will be interested to see if any of the same problems rise up from SS. It has always amazed me that the yips are normally just pitchers and catchers. I did have a 1B that developed something like them one time and we said just never throw the ball. We would get an out and he would airmail it into LF. He didn't do it before an inning but would when the inning started. If there were runners on base he would always walk it to the pitcher or the pitcher would come get it. We played it off by him slapping him on the butt when he handed it to the pitcher so hopefully no one would realize he couldn't throw. Best of luck to your son.
He played SS for the JV team on Friday and made a bunch of highlight plays that quite honestly I didn't even know he was capable of. Coach pulled him aside to talk about the potential need to move him until the starter is better. The coach then ran into my wife at the gas station and told her how happy he is to have my son on the team.
This yips thing sure has been a wild ride. He threw 2 buckets to me yesterday while I stood on the mound in the backyard. Every ball was right in the chest. I took some previous advice and read some old threads on the topic. Reached out to a guy named Dr. Crowley and that has helped a little, but not completely. I decided to try something new and I'll let you know if it works. We were on the school field and he was struggling to throw it back to me. Big difference from what I saw in the backyard. So I gave him the 3oz Driveline baseball and had him try to throw that back. As you can imagine, it didn't go well. After 10 throws I had him pick up a regular baseball and he was letting it rip right back to my chest. It's the biggest smile I've seen on him in weeks.