Reply to "Question: How much should experience count?"

MN-MomHSBaseballWeb Owner

I'm not a very "experienced" college parent, with my son just about to begin his soph season, but jbb's post hit home with me.

Just a few days ago I was asking my son, a 19-yr-old RHP, about the other 4 pitchers who will play key roles for his team this year. 2 are returning starters, and 2 are JUCO transfers, all with considerably more college innings pitched than my son. He was discussing the abilities of each, mentioning this one's velocity, that one's control/location, and the other one's changeup or curveball, etc. But the key point I noticed was that he could see why these guys deserved to pitch in front of him, because they all know how to pitch, how to throw the pitches to college hitters, how to get college hitters out. Don't get me wrong, he is a competitor and wants to earn the right to be the # 1 starter in the future. But he understood that at least on his team, these guys know how to make their experience count.

1/25/0612:09 AM

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