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I have been watching my daughters pitch for over and decade and seen some beasts hit the ball back through the box. If this can happen at 10U imagine what happens at 18U and then college at 23. I do not care how fast her reaction time is sooner or later some batter is going to get hold of a pitch and drive it up the middle.
When your dd is throwing say (only) 50 games a year at only 100 pitches each game (she is really good) and only 1% get hit hard up the middle that is still 50 pitches annually (that is 500 over a short ten year career) she has coming at her like freight train. I do love the face mask.
As to corners. We ask them to crash and they can end up tight to the batter.... I saw a video pf a slapper that hit a pitcher in the face with a SLAP. (both professional players) How can we expect our corners to protect themselves when we have dashing in.
THE FACE MASK DOES NOT CHANGE THE GAME IN ANY WAY, IT DOES NOT GIVE THE DEFENSE AN ADVANTAGE OVER THE OFFENSE. IT SIMPLY KEEPS PLAYERS OUT OF EMERGENCY ROOMS WITH DEBILITATING INJURIES AND VERY DIFFICULT REHABS.
Don't expect any sanctioning body to make them mandatory in the near future and a college coach can do what he wants but he isn't going to pay the medical bills when your dd is injured. If you start her with a mask as a 10U she'll still be wearing it when she is 20 and she will not have experienced a serious injury to her face.
When your dd is throwing say (only) 50 games a year at only 100 pitches each game (she is really good) and only 1% get hit hard up the middle that is still 50 pitches annually (that is 500 over a short ten year career) she has coming at her like freight train. I do love the face mask.
As to corners. We ask them to crash and they can end up tight to the batter.... I saw a video pf a slapper that hit a pitcher in the face with a SLAP. (both professional players) How can we expect our corners to protect themselves when we have dashing in.
THE FACE MASK DOES NOT CHANGE THE GAME IN ANY WAY, IT DOES NOT GIVE THE DEFENSE AN ADVANTAGE OVER THE OFFENSE. IT SIMPLY KEEPS PLAYERS OUT OF EMERGENCY ROOMS WITH DEBILITATING INJURIES AND VERY DIFFICULT REHABS.
Don't expect any sanctioning body to make them mandatory in the near future and a college coach can do what he wants but he isn't going to pay the medical bills when your dd is injured. If you start her with a mask as a 10U she'll still be wearing it when she is 20 and she will not have experienced a serious injury to her face.