cobb_of_fury
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In the past 5-10 years the number of teams and organizations has increased expedentially. There too many watered down teams to support the limited pool available. Each year I see more and more teams with 7-8 players, then all of the sudden they fold and screw the kids they have committed to, or merge with another org. Too many teams to support number of girls. Hopefully the number of girls can eventually fill the number of teams. Just can't start an organization or team because kid can't go anywhere else.....
Wooo... Wait a second, a thought occurred to me... If you have more and more teams with 7-8 girls all folding, Follow me here - what if you take 3 of the eight girl teams mix and match and boom!- isn't that 2 twelve girl teams?
Problem solved - Your welcome...
The biggest reason in my opinion you don't have pitching at 16U is there are not enough pitchers at 10U to last through the natural attrition.
If we encouraged all girls to at least try pitching and then let them pitch, some of them that would have never tried it would be good and might stick with it. The ones that didn't enjoy it would fall away and concentrate on other positions -
but we have 10U teams with just two girls pitching even if there are other pitchers available and that's just stupid. you'll never know what you have if you don't let them pitch.
Also - REC for girls 14U and younger or middle school balls for 14U girls and HS JV ball -let them Pitch and get reps