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72 sats \ 10 replies \ @grayruby 12 Mar \ parent \ on: What are children doing at too young of an age? AskSN
It's crazy how hard kids can throw now. This is a few decades ago, but I remember the first year I made the high school baseball team. I was 15 and was both a pitcher and catcher but I never got a chance to pitch until later years. I just played catcher that year and mostly backup. The first day of practice they had me catching the team's best pitcher. He was 16 at the time and throwing low to mid 80s. I was blown away. In regular league play I hadn't seen any guys that threw probably more than 70. Over 80 looked so fast. And now these kids are throwing low to mid 90s.
Apparently it's not actually good for their health, that they're pushing for such speed.
Personally, I really think Americans (and other countries too?) need to re-evaluate the priority of children's sports. But I'm not much of a sports fan so I dunno 🤷🏻♂️
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I hear it's really bad for their arms, especially thet young. The problem is, how do you regulate that? If a kid wants to go to the best college, he netter throw that ball hard.
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I think it's a problem for the sports themselves to address, not the government. For example, the MLB/colleges could choose to punish junior programs that recklessly encourage unsafe practices.
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I'm sure the parents will get private coaches. Gotta be the best somehow.
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I probably can't throw 80s now lol.
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I'm not much of an athlete