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What's the point of coaches pitch baseball?
Posted on 4/29/21 at 3:07 pm
Posted on 4/29/21 at 3:07 pm
We played t-ball, coaches pitch, machine pitch, then we pitched on our own growing up. The coach pitching didn't throw any slower than a machine at the slowest setting. Skip the unnecessary year of coach trying to relive his glory days striking out Timmys and go straight to the machine.
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Posted on 4/29/21 at 3:08 pm to The Boat
machine pitch is the stupidest thing ever.
Posted on 4/29/21 at 3:09 pm to The Boat
I never played coach pitch. We just went from T Ball to Pitching Machine. Was this more of a travel ball thing in it's inception? Since the people throwing the tournaments couldn't provide machines for all fields so they just went with Coach Pitch?
It's definitely better than those first couple of years of live pitch. Good Lord, walkathon followed by wild pitch after wild pitch for easy "Stolen" bases.
It's definitely better than those first couple of years of live pitch. Good Lord, walkathon followed by wild pitch after wild pitch for easy "Stolen" bases.
Posted on 4/29/21 at 3:09 pm to The Boat
Idea is to replicate a normal baseball environment. A pitching machine is too consistent
Posted on 4/29/21 at 3:10 pm to TeddyPadillac
Never heard of machine pitch, we went from tee-ball to coach pitch on to a live arm. Coach pitch at least get he kids use to seeing the ball come out of the hand and adjusting a swing to a pitch. Instead of a pitch coming to same spot at the same speed nearly every time.
This post was edited on 4/29/21 at 3:13 pm
Posted on 4/29/21 at 3:11 pm to AUCE05
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Idea is to replicate a normal baseball environment. A pitching machine is too consistent
Then why does coaches pitch come first?
It's the first moving ball kids have ever seen. Use the machine for consistency to teach them to hit better than having coach throwing all over the place.
Posted on 4/29/21 at 3:13 pm to The Boat
I never did machine pitch. Grew up early mid90's in Jackson, MS area. 4,5 and 6 year olds were t-ball (although 6 year olds that were good enough could play up with 7/8 years olds). 7/8 year old was coach pitch. From then on kid pitch. As always, you could play up if you wanted, which most of the good kids did. I played up as a 6 year old and up as an 8 year old, then stayed with my age group from then on.
Posted on 4/29/21 at 3:14 pm to The Boat
We do Tball from 4-5, coach pitch from 6-8, then pitching starts at 9.
Posted on 4/29/21 at 3:14 pm to AUCE05
Sometimes I forget I grew up in a rich suburb.
Posted on 4/29/21 at 3:15 pm to The Boat
I live in an area that is huge in baseball. We had 100 4 and 5 year olds this year.
Posted on 4/29/21 at 3:17 pm to The Boat
Because Tayden needs to be on a travel team..........
Posted on 4/29/21 at 3:18 pm to Tigercowboy
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Coach pitch at least get the kids use to seeing the ball come out of the hand and adjusting a swing to a pitch.
Pretty much this. It helps kids learn to find the release point. No pitcher (I hope to God) has a release point where the pitch machine comes from.
I think they both have their place IMO. Pitching machine for training kids to hit high velocity pitches and coach pitching to teach them how to pick up and read pitches out of the hand.
Posted on 4/29/21 at 3:20 pm to The Boat
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What's the point of coaches pitch baseball?
Coaches pitch was fine back when Dads knew how to throw a baseball. What I see now is brutal.
Posted on 4/29/21 at 3:21 pm to lsu711
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What I see now is brutal.
Posted on 4/29/21 at 3:21 pm to The Boat
We didnt do machine pitch. So it made sense for us to see live pitches from someone who could throw strikes.
Posted on 4/29/21 at 3:24 pm to The Boat
Not every playground or league has enough money in the budget to buy enough pitching machines to go around for every field/team. The playground I grew up playing at only had 2 pitching machines for the entire park and they were only used in the batting cages. And usually only the older age group teams got to use the batting cages that had pitching machines. Younger age groups were usually in the other batting cages with coaches throwing BP
quote:I find that some kids do worse if you throw too slow. My daughter for instance...constant strikeout at the coach pitch age when you throw really slow because she would swing over the top of the ball. Put a few extra MPH on it so the ball trajectory is more flat, she hit 10x better.
The coach pitching didn't throw any slower than a machine at the slowest setting
quote:Sorry you couldn't hit a 20 mph coach pitch
Skip the unnecessary year of coach trying to relive his glory days striking out Timmys
Posted on 4/29/21 at 3:24 pm to The Boat
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We played t-ball, coaches pitch, machine pitch, then we pitched on our own growing up
This is what we had. I think up to 5 it was t-ball, 6&7 it was coach pitch, 8&9 machine, and 10+ kid pitch.
Hell, I enjoyed machine pitch much more than coach pitch, but then again most of the coaches couldn't pitch
. I don't think in that instance, it was helpful at all. Machine pitch was much more helpful in helping coach the actual game. Ideally though, dealing with an actual pitcher is a much better option.
Posted on 4/29/21 at 3:27 pm to The Boat
We went from Teeball to chunking it. No machine or coach pitch. This was late 80’s
This post was edited on 4/29/21 at 3:28 pm
Posted on 4/29/21 at 3:28 pm to The Boat
We went straight from TBall to live arm. 7 and 8 year olds trying to throw strikes. That was brutal. And this was well before the travel ball era so all of the highly skilled players were still playing league ball.
I wish we had machine pitch back then.
I wish we had machine pitch back then.
Posted on 4/29/21 at 3:29 pm to The Boat
My area is as follows.
3-4 year old. Kids get 4 or 5 coach pitches then on the Tee for unlimited attempts to hit. Hit ball run to first no outs or runs scored.
5 years (4 year old can play up) 4 coach pitches. Then two swings on tee. Normal baseball rules.
6 years 4 coach pitches thats it.
Forget the age groupings going forward. But want to say at 9 is first year of kid pitch. No machine pitch.
When i was growing up in Michigan we had machine pitch.
3-4 year old. Kids get 4 or 5 coach pitches then on the Tee for unlimited attempts to hit. Hit ball run to first no outs or runs scored.
5 years (4 year old can play up) 4 coach pitches. Then two swings on tee. Normal baseball rules.
6 years 4 coach pitches thats it.
Forget the age groupings going forward. But want to say at 9 is first year of kid pitch. No machine pitch.
When i was growing up in Michigan we had machine pitch.
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