re: Kubena reports “Mainieri is doling out a summer of rest to most of LSU’s pitchers”

I have umpired travel ball for several years. USSSA has a rule that says something like a kid can pitch 3 complete innings on Saturday and then another 3 complete innings on Sunday. That might not sound bad, but some of these innings are between 20-30 pitches. Let’s take the middle and say 25 pitches per inning times 3 innings times twice per weekend times 10 weekends per travel ball season times 5 years of playing travel ball between the ages of 9 and 13.....that equals 7,500 pitches just in travel ball, not counting pitches at practice or warm ups or lessons or at home, and haven’t even counted high school for 4 years. Kids’ arms at that age CAN NOT handle that much pitching.