So it's that time of the year in our neck of the woods in the Northeast where the pitchers are done resting their arms and need to get their work in.
My catcher son 16 has been overwhelmed with requests to catch bullpens from private lessons, pitcher clinics and 3x a week team winter workouts.
I don't know if it's because he's getting older and his teams now have POs and bigger rosters or it's the nature of the teams but he's almost exclusively catching pens and doing just a little hitting and hardly any positional work at practice.
For example last week I think he caught bullpens 6 different sessions including practice and private lessons.
I am thinking this is too much for his arm especially after only starting to throw several weeks ago after a 2 month break.
Thoughts?
If your kid was a catcher did you actively manage his bullpen workload so he didn't go into his school season with a sore arm?
