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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My son guest played in a baseball tournament once and I thought the coach did it the right way. He was brought in to pitch and did not start.  He came in as relief and didn't position play during the game. He did his job in one game and went home.

In that case, they had no pitchers and a too small roster. [/quote]

No absolutely not, the coach did not do it right. A baseball coach should be developing pitchers and giving them opportunities to pitch. My kids played little league and all star baseball and there were plenty of kids who had the potential to pitch who never got the chance. So many of the coaches kids started pitching not because they were the best but because they had the opportunity to get put in. They didn't have to worry about getting pulled if they messed up. Or sometimes the team is weak and a kid who might not be the best pitcher gets the opportunity to pitch a lot and gets better. My son was on a team like this when he was 8. I taught him to pitch and so the first practice the coach asked who could pitch. My son raised his hand along with the coach's son and one other kid. He had them pitch and they could throw strikes. My son and those three kids pitched almost all the innings that season. It was ridiculous the coach didn't give other players chances. My son was assistant coach one year and one practice the coach didn't show up. He had every kid try pitching and there was a lefty who had potential. My husband worked with him for a while and the next game he asked the head coach to give the lefty a chance to pitch. The coach wouldn't. The next few practices and games my husband kept asking for our son not to pitch and instead to put in the lefty. My husband stayed late and worked with the lefty a couple of more times.  The coach only agreed the second to the last game. That lefty came in and struck out 3 kids the only inning he got to pitch. Three up and three down. So my husband again says let's put the lefty in the final game. Nope - the coach's son pitched. 
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Yeah, but that's not what happened in our case. This was a travel tourney where the team had to borrow 2 other players to even make it to 9. You can't play a game with 7 players, nor can you make it through pool play with only a couple of pitchers.  The kids who could pitch did as much as they could both in pool and elimination play without blowing out arms. [/quote]

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