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In travel ball, TD's are in it for the money and if a coach wants to bucket sit, they usually accomodate. We played one team with four dads on buckets outside of the dugout (one calling pitches and the others yelling at just their own kids).
The kids do have pitches, fastball, offspeed and they hit a spot occasionally. Coaches would argue the kids aren't too young to start learning.
Appreciate the responses, but I'm still unclear on how to handle, or how to address in the pre-game. To me the most reasonable option would be to treat hitting the bucket the same as the ball entering the dugout. A dead ball zone (if runners have to return to last base occupied) would award the defense for an error. I like the detached equipment idea though.
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