The one "advantage" to travel ball tourneys is that there are innings(not pitch) limits.

Unless the kid is a starter in basketball/football, good luck with them not catching hell from travel coaches. Everyone says they want a break, but when the rest of the masses move, it's damned hard to get your kid out of the group.

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The travel coaches job is to make money off of the kids family. Of course they don't want them doing anything else. Plus if the kid is actually any type of decent athlete he will be on the field/court.

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The Trib is all over this. Love it. Someone had to stop these idiots from destroying young arms.

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/opin ... story.html

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My recollection is Carey Wood of the Cubs in high school threw an average of 150 pitches in 7 inning games. He was great but he burned out fast,his Texas high school coach ruined one of the best arms ever.All to win in high school. Parents should monitor the swine.

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High School baseballs governing body requires mandatory pitch counts for all high school pitchers. Good work.

http://www.baseballamerica.com/college/ ... 5hd9vgM.97

The game was close throughout.

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GO BEARS!!!

There is no scenario where this is acceptable.

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If this kid threw 167 pitches in one game, then he probably sucks and should quit baseball.

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Max off 115 pitches. 95 at the freshman and sophomore level. Good work.

http://trib.in/2cfMlDK

I also threw no pitches in high school and still needed shoulder surgery.

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i think this is a good move. 95 pitches for freshman and sophomores seems right, but they had better have good, deep stables of pitching. the highest level i have ever coached was 8th grade and we had a max pitch count where a kid couldnt start an inning if he had more than 75 pitches with a cap at 90 total, and 90 pitches doesn't go as far as you think at that level! on top of that, if they pitched in the 75+ range they required 4 days before they could pitch again. my last year was the first year they instituted that rule, and with our schedule of games we had kids pitching who NEVER wold have been out there without the count. not saying that is a bad thing at all (it is actually good to get more kids the opportunity), but it led to some bad baseball games in those weeks where we had 3 or 4 games.

This rule will force a coach to actually coach rather than riding 1 or 2 guys the entire season and maybe they'll stumble into a guy or 2 who can pitch who wouldn't have had an opportunity before.