I am looking for some previous experiences regarding total innings pitched between spring and summer. My son is a college freshman pitcher that was scheduled to go off this summer to play. he has thrown approx. 80 innings and hopefully has at least 2 more starts. His coaches told him early on that if he pitched a lot this spring he probably wouldnt go to his summer team. we really did not expect this to become an issue because we didnt really expect to throw that many innings as a freshman. it appears now that he is going to stay home this summer and rest his arm the first part of the summer and be on a throwing program the last part of the summer. He of course will also be working out , getting stronger etc.. I really have 2 questions (1) is it common for a young pitcher to be stopped at approx. 100 innings and (2)will he be missing a lot of exposure from scouts by not throwing in the summer league? we are very cognizant of pitch count etc and do not want to overthrow but we really dont want to miss a summer of exposure to scouts either. any thoughts would be helpful.
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