My son is a 2017 so first year in school program. Has played travel ball since 9 years old and for two years prior to now played local spring league & travel when league finished. That being said; he's just entered first year of HS program. Travel has always been a one or two time per week practice due to many players including my sons distance to practice field. League practiced more often but lacked enough throwing to suit my son. He's always worked on his own with friends and really got into long toss at 12 years old; he's also taken lessons with instructor since he was 12. Rotation and number of pitches per week are much different in league & travel. League generally lacks pitching therefore he generally maxed out his 8 innings per week. Had a couple of complete 7 inning games & close a couple of times before reaching 95 pitch limit. He's always been able to go deep into games without fatigue; generally used as a starter. In travel; team does not play every weekend so some weeks he pitches none in games. His role on travel team was normally pitching in championship games although he pitched an inning or two in pool play. Sometimes team knocked out early in bracket so he's either been brought in to relieve or occasionally only pitches inning or two in pool & that's it. Long story short it varies a lot. No pitch limits (only innings) in travel but coach was good about limiting pitchers to 90 give or take in games. Freshman that made school team spent entire month during summer practicing. When school starts they have a workout period before school including weight lifting, medicine balls, weighted balls, etc. Final period of day is athletics which consisted of non-coaching supervised throwing until recently when practice is now allowed. We have a long time and very successful head coach at the school who believes in throwing a lot, head coach is the pitching coach. We've had to suspend his private lessons and he's done very little on his own since start of practice; he's getting plenty of work. Prior to school ball; he'd never participated in weight lifting, medicine balls, weighted balls although he was an avid long tosser. On the long toss distance; last spring he was able to air out 290 feet on a arc; not sure how far he can throw now. His mechanics are smooth; whether good or bad is open to debate. He has an over the top arm slot and lands slightly closed. We have no idea at this point where he'll figure into the rotation, just hoping for the best.
