CO pitch limits

Yeah. 9 Days of rest. A kid can pitch 110 and then must rest 3 days. Pretty early in the year for this. Look at this kid's log from last year:

http://www.maxpreps.com/athlet...t/baseball-stats.htm

This year, he was thrown 110 pitches in his first start on a cold day.

Jeez

Well, these are high school kids, the limits and rest run as follows:

I think they are reasonable - definitely probably more restrictive than almost any other state. Yes, you can have a kid pitch 110 pitches on Monday and be back out for another 110 on Friday. JV limits are lower. These numbers are not appreciably different than Pitch Smart Guidelines other than an extra day's rest (which I think ours should have as well).

That seems like waaaaay to little rest to me. 3 days? This may actually encourage coaches who don't know better to overuse some kids more.

Even the Pitch Smart guideline would only make it 4 days. Additionally, in Colorado, most schedules wouldn't have the opportunity to go on three day's rest very often. Where this will get fun is in the playoffs. I can see a lot of teams working the pitch count on guys and using the limits as more strategy than safety precaution.

ironhorse posted:

That seems like waaaaay to little rest to me. 3 days? This may actually encourage coaches who don't know better to overuse some kids more.

While I think pitch counts are better than the alternative, this is the worry I have with pitch counts - you will have coaches use it as a crutch rather than make individual determinations as to the proper individual pitch count. "Well, I didn't do anything wrong throwing Johnny 110 pitches on Monday and 110 on Friday. I was within the limits set by the state association. They think that's safe enough."

Exactly. The guys that don't know better will substitute these guidelines for expertise. Theoretically this kid could throw 3 110 pitch games in 9 calendar days.

I agree this is a step in the right direction, not complaining just to complain. Just wish is was at least 4 days.