Amount of Little League Games

lol, dude I dont give a dam about little league. Like I said, if a certain group is breaking the rules, it will be dealt with im sure. In the long run, it will only hurt them. The rules have been put in place for a reason. Ill leave it at that.

As far as LL pitchers throwing strikes, the strike zone in LL is huge if it is enforeced right. And ump calling a game should give anything close to the pitcher, therefore cutting down on the number of walks to kids just standing there with a bat on their shoulder. IMO tnere is no need for minor league. Let the kids play T-Ball until they turn 8 and then put em in Little league. Alot of folks will say...well the teams will be too big. If that is the case make more teams, and LL has rules for the minimum participation for a player in each game..used to be 2 innings in the field and 1 at bat MINIMUM...don't know if this is still the case, but it should be. More teams also cuts down on the number of other communities on the schedule...cuz we all know how crooked the game can get when neighboring communities face off. I know when I was little, the T-Ball all star game was just like a LL game....no tee. We practiced 3 times and played...and our next game we played the following year was on a LL field facing usually a 12 year old pitcher. Baseball is baseball, and if done right kids can learn all they need to know and hone their skills in practice and play fewer games. It would increase the participation of every player every year and ultimately develop better players with less wear and tear on their bodies. After all..these are very young kids we are talkin about here.

I thought there was a set limit of games for LL in a season anyway? When I played and coached we normally had 12 regular season games and then All-Stars if I am not mistaken.

Dude, one of my kids plays 32 games in LL softball and the other plays 27....and one is 11 years old and the other 12...go figure

heck ill call them out it is POUND

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: DaneCook</div><div class="ubbcode-body">I disagree with CoeburnCane though. As long as there are advancements in what we know about staying healthy pitchers are gonna stay in the league longer and longer. Granted this is several years away, but eventually more and more young pitchers will adapt to the Roger Clemens "lifestyle" (you outta see his workout) if they want to pitch into there forties. Being able to stick around long as a pitcher has 2 big factors. 1. keeping yourself healthy and in shape. 2. flexibility. and if you'll look at the 40+ club in the majors (Glavine, maddux, smoltz, clemens, petitte, mussina) these guys have stayed healthy throughout MOST of there careers.</div></div>

That's the thing--you can see that a lot of these exercise programs aren't used early on with kids who want to pitch. Their bodies don't get trained like Clemens when they're in LL--they just go to school, go show up, and throw the ball. Now if they're doing that for 40-60 or more games per summer when they're between the ages of 9 & 12, then their arms aren't going to be the same structurally as they should be when they're only pitching/playing 20-30 games overall. I'm tracing back this young MLB pitchers eventually = NFL RB's theory to the abuse through LL, AAU, and other youth leagues because a lot of kids don't either a) have a workout, or b) someone to tell them how to take care of their arms. It's not that they don't get into a workout by college or the minor leagues, it's that their arms are already deteriorated so badly when they were in the developmental stages of their life that the damage is already present and will only get worse.

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Quote:</div><div class="ubbcode-body">Gammons said on baseball tonight last year by the year 2010 that over 33% of EVERY major league pitcher will have had Tommy John Surgery. Now there has been no scientific evidence that shows that this will shorten or lengthen a major leaguers career but it does show that it can increase your velocity as most pitchers come back from this surgery throwin 105% of what they used too.</div></div>

Everytime you have surgery on anything relating to ligaments, no matter how close to normal the doctors promise, you always have a higher chance of getting hurt again, no matter if you pick up more velocity on your fastball temporarily. Why? Because you've modified the natural structure of the elbow/arm from how it's meant to be to something scientifically enhanced, and nothing doctors do is ever going to be better than what mother nature intended, IMO. How many times are we discussing whether or not so-and-so can come back from Tommy John Surgery or surgery to repair an ACL/MCL/PCL tear? We're not talking about the extra miles an hour they're going to pick up, or the .05 they're gonna pick up on their 40 time--we're talking about the likelihood of reinjury. No workout regimen can guarantee against injuring the joint/ligament combo in question.

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Quote:</div><div class="ubbcode-body">This kinda worries me about all these JV all Americans we see. You might get some rich parent who wants Jr. to get an extra 5 mph on his fastball and put him under the knife at a very young age. </div></div>

Right--and thusly altering the natural structure of their arm and trying to fix something that isn't broken. That's flat-out dangerous. It's not good for JV AA's, nor is it good for a kid in the minors or a rookie major leaguer who could have avoided damage to their arm by taking care of it when they were in LL/AAU ball.

I guess what I'm saying is, put rules in place to protect the kid's arm throughout LL & AAU ball, and make sure they're followed. Maybe that combined with taking better care of a kid's arm w/modern care techniques and a workout regimen could make sure my theory doesn't come to fruition. Just because we have modern methods to repair and even incrimentally improve someone's arm doesn't mean we should just abuse it and then fix it--and take the chance that the high possiblity of reinjury cripples someone.

There is no limit to the amount of games. It is up to the league. Answer to an earlier post. The minimum play is still in effect. 6 consectutive outs and 1 at bat. In all-stars it is 3 consectutive outs and 1 at bat.

I couldn't remember. I haven't been able to help out with LL for the past 4 years so I couldn't remember all the rules pertaining to it.