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Originally Posted by ozzy6900
Well, if this bothers you (taking so long to pitch), then I suggest that you do not accept games where the age group is 12 - 13 yrs old. You have no right to tell a coach to speed his pitcher up nor do you have a duty to "push the game along". There are too many of you out there thinking that baseball is a timed game...... it is not.
I will occasionally do a youngster game such as this and I accept that the skills of the players is not to the caliber of older ones. In most cases, it is just a leisurely afternoon off with pay for me.
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I agree with you if it is truly untimed. Most of our local leagues, however, are timed. I think that if we can move things along (usually via the coach, not the player) in situations like that, we are helping the kids by letting them get more game in. Usually a casual comment between innings along the lines of, "Coach, if you can get him to speed up a little we'll get more innings in." is enough. I agree we should never coach or try to force anything that's not within the rules.