My son (14) has caught for about 5 years and has become quite good at all aspects of catching except, unfortunately, his throwing. While his throws have improved over the past couple of years, many other catchers his age have improved much more. My son is now in 8th grade and won't be trying out for JV until next February, but it's painfully obvious that he won't be able to make the JV team as a catcher unless there's some drastic improvement.
I've spoken to my son about this and he's told me he's willing to work his tail off to improve, I just hope he's able to improve enough in 9 or 10 months.
A few opinions, please.
I'm planning to have son see an instructor, who hopefully will see something in his throwing mechanics that he needs to work on. At our local facility there's a former pro pitcher and also a former div. 1 catcher. Would the pitching instructor be more appropriate to work on throwing mechanics, or the catching instructor?
What's a reasonable schedule for long-toss, without over-doing it. Every night, every other night, 3 nights per week?
Any other excercises he should be doing in addition to long toss. Offseason he did a lot of pushups, situps, reverse situps, and weight training in moderation. Any specific recommendations will be much appreciated.
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