Pitchers , and the day after

We have a rule that 60 - 70 pitches and no play next day. I know 60-70 seems to be a big discrepency. HOwever, what type of pitches was he throwing. If mostly fastballs then we play him. If not = nope! As I have posted before, we have a trainer on site. So at lunch, the trainer looks at the player and I get a phone call. Essentially - play or no play. If they are one of our better hitters, then they hit.

#3 and no throwing. Not even infield.

Give the arm and body a rest.

well, running two miles or 5 on a bike of some kind would help the recovery process. if he's accostumed to doing this its not out of the question to play him at 1st and bat him in the 3 or 4 hole.

Thanks for the replys, CoachB... they have him throwing everything at this point. Fastball,change-up,curves,splitters all in his first appearance.
Beenthere... Thats not a bad idea, Matt is tough But I would have to think they would all need a rest after throwing
100+ pitches.
rabe62...If the kids are made to run-ride a bike that
might work. But is it going to be enough to get a player ready to put him in the outfield on a windy day and have him running all over the field and fireing the ball into the cut off from the fence into the wind. That is what our pitchers are asked to do. With out being made to run or ride a bike. Matt in this case must have thrown the ball to the cut off or to the base and counting warm ups 25-30 times or more. After 5 innings of chaseing the ball around the outfield he gets put at first. I think it was because the coach thought he was at (his) pitch count again . I don't know, I would think or would like to think that a H.S. coach or any coach for that matter would protect his pitchers arm .....

Beenthere.. Did you notice the time off your last reply?

gotcha...

#4 without a doubt. There are other players that should be in the mix. This will happen 7-8 times during the HS season, and the coach needs to have a plan.

Jerny1111, a HS coach that plays them in the outfield or infield positions, is about winning, not developing. It' a shame.

I agree with all of you. This happens all the time, not just here but throughout HS Sports. I'm not saying that all coachs
are guilty of being selfish. There are alot of great coachs out there. But when a player is being over used for the benefit of
winning, what do you do?...

jerny...HAVE YOUR SON SAY " HE CAN'T GO". He really needs a minimum of 1 hour recovery for every game pitch thrown. 100 pitches a minimum of 100 hours....4 days.

Good Luck!

Thanks Starzz.... we'll see what happens, I'll keep you posted.

i'm not a coach, you can't let him throw, but you can place him at DH and that would be the proper thing to do. If you throw him at a postion he has a posibility of ruining his arm or getting hurt

My son is an 04 RHP and the main pitcher for his small HS. He has thrown 3 complete games in our 3-week-old season, all 100 to 110 pitches, and in each one he pitched his best in the last 3 innings (all wins). He is looking forward to playing college ball next year, so he takes good care of his arm, and it feels great ... he threw regularly in the off-season, does the rubber tubing, warms up properly before he pitches, runs after the game, etc. Usually they don't have a game scheduled the next day after he pitches, so it has been easy to take the next day off from throwing. But because of a rainout, last night he threw 110 pitches (shutout), and tonight they have another game. He was advised by his private coach NOT to throw at all the day after a lot of pitches, so he said he would ask his coach to DH him. A win is not worth the cost of an arm...

Mom, that is so true. Winning is Every Thing, But not at the expence of one of your players... Win, with what you have(AS A TEAM). Since I have posted last my son has been used as a DH after pitching. Thats is a good thing. Our 3rd pitcher however,
has been getting (OVER USED). He plays CF for us when he's not pitching. Just the other day this young man Cought for us after
throwing 100+ the day after, then when the starting catcher showed up after a VICA contest the coach put him in center field. We knew we were going to be short a catcher, so why didn't we bring up a catch from the Soph. team.