Pitch Count: Pitching As A Younger Player
Pitch Count: Pitching As A Younger Player By: Frank Fraschetti Pitch Count: Pitch count when growing up is something that is taken very lightly. There are a lot of kids who throw too much when they are young and it causes arm injuries as they get older. I know when I was younger, I used to pitch every other game with no clue how many pitches I threw. I got hurt during my junior year in college and I'm sure that that had a little impact on why I was hurt. I know now in my High School baseball league there is pitch count and that is something that was put in recently for that reason. Being on a pitch count will help a young kids' career more than it will hurt. Pitching back in the day: When talking to people my dad's age, 50-55, they always say "kids are so soft nowadays." The reason they say this is because there were no pitch counts back when they played. They tell me that if you were the pitcher you would pitch every game. It is kind of ...