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Originally Posted by LomUmp
Hey all,
I am probably one of the VERY few that you will hear this from...DON'T CHANGE A THING!!
From my perspective, kids learn to hit, throw and catch. Nowhere do I say pitch. They don't learn to pitch until it is time for them to do so in a game sometime that week.
If you eexxppaanndd the stike zone, you are then teaching a little kid that a bad pitch can/will be called a strike. You are also teaching the little hitters that they had better swing at a bad pitch because that "ball" will probably be called a strike.
Make the pitchers learn how to pitch, and everyone will be better off later on. These are your future HS players, aren't they?
LomUmp  |
I've never heard of such nonsense!!!
The little kids I've seen play would rather stand there and walk if they know 1 out of 6 pitches will actually be called a strike.
If you start out with a large strike zone and slower move it to the correct zone when they reach say 11, 12 and for some leagues even older then they learn how to hit, run and field the ball.
It doesn't make sense to have the smallest strikezone (players that are sometimes 4' 3" tall) for the worst pitchers (youngest players).
Get the kids swinging the bat when their young and everyone is happy, players, coaches, parents and umpires!!