Reply to "Your PO experience at the ~16U level"

CaCO3Girl10,000+ posts

jman99 posted:
Backstopdad I am glad your son is getting a chance to play in college! It is an amazing once in a lifetime experience he will never forget! My only point is that often (not always) we do not give these kids a chance to develop other areas long enough to see if it clicks. For your son, I see why he chose the pitching path and obviously it was the right choice for him. Being a catcher is a very thankless and physically demanding position.

What is a coach suppose to do? He's got a 6'2, 180# kid running a 7.0 sixty....and a 6'2, 180# kid running an 8.2....he's going to start the faster kid. It isn't that the coach isn't giving the kid a chance to develop it is that the kid isn't developed. Now if that slower kid can pitch 85 how do you think the coach should use him?

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