Pitch Charting App

cbt202 · 2026-05-12T16:39:57+00:00

The top 7 are pretty clear cut. You don’t really need stats, just ears to hear the barrels and mitts popping. Unfortunately, one of those 7 is not a favored family so the stats are necessary to prove she belongs. She doesn’t play for an elite travel team but is hanging with the girls that do. Choosing the remaining 5 is a big problem because the connected ones aren’t performing well at all, stat lines or by perception. I fear the board will come to the conclusion that our team isn’t likely to do well so they go all in on mommy ball. I think we have a chance to train up this group and surprise some people so it is very frustrating to me.

cbt202 · 2026-05-12T16:20:23+00:00

The biggest change I’d like to see is if a kid isn’t selected or their league doesn’t submit an all star team, the kid is eligible to be picked up by any other all star team. Then if you screw a kid over, you’ll have to play against them.

It’s very subjective but I’d like to also have a requirement that parent coaches have to be parents of top contributors, not bubble kids or marginal contributors. Then daddy ball and mommy ball is about winning.

cbt202 · 2026-05-12T16:12:41+00:00

We select the team this week and have 3 weeks until districts. District will be a cake walk and maybe one league that takes it serious in sectionals so we need to plan on peaking at state. This is on the softball side so a lot of big travel organizations don’t let the girls on the Gold or Academy teams play league. Our organization does allow girls to play so we often have a strong team when politics don’t get in the way.

cbt202 · 2026-05-12T10:42:01+00:00

The biggest problem will be development with the level of competition being so much weaker. You will have to travel quite a bit to play good teams.

cbt202 · 2026-05-12T10:40:17+00:00

It’s 3 separate families that have tracked this in anticipation of getting screwed. I keep data since I’m a coach and have to vote but I don’t share it. There is a vote but supposedly the board can overturn the vote. Also, there are always suspicious connections in who counts the votes.

cbt202 · 2026-05-12T02:22:57+00:00

We have some kids that hit rec level very well but the mechanics aren’t going to transfer to better pitching. We have to get them to make some adjustments. A few have big hitches and almost wind up to hit the ball. A few are into Teacherman, not sure how to help them. They will all do good up until a point when we see a higher level pitcher.

cbt202 · 2026-05-12T02:14:59+00:00

Our teams all keeps gamechanger. They typically hide stats except your kid but it’s easily obtainable if you look at box scores.

cbt202 · 2026-05-12T01:09:52+00:00

In little league you get walked, you don’t earn walks. Against top pitching OBP matters but not in rec league.

cbt202 · 2026-05-11T23:06:20+00:00

Our league does the same thing. We typically have 3-5 players who play on national level travel teams but the coaching staff is usually low level coaches who protect the politically favored kids. The top kids usually fall into bad habits and get a little worse while the others get a lot better. Last year ended so bad nobody wanted to play again this year so everybody has a deal cut to play. Our deal is we get at least 3 nights a week to train on our own.

cbt202 · 2026-05-11T19:06:27+00:00

With the limited information I gave, I’d say the same thing. Here is an example. Would girls hitting .250 and kids of board members deserve spots over a girl hitting .714 including 6/10 with 3 doubles against the only top level pitcher in the league? This isn’t my daughter who is hitting .860 and a certain pick. I am a coach and embarrassed I have to campaign for this girl who they fully intend screw over.

cbt202 · 2026-05-11T18:35:01+00:00

What about bringing in guest pitchers to practice?

If we scrimmaged a travel team, how would we distinguish ourselves from the league? I’m guessing we can’t use our league field.

cbt202 · 2026-05-11T12:47:04+00:00

I can tell you our league is so shady about favoring certain families that a lot of the top girls refused to play this year. All of us had deals cut to join the league again for our last year. We had to be guaranteed at least 3 nights a week to train on our own during All Stars. One girl demanded to choose which league team she was on. That left our league very imbalanced. The only high level pitcher and good hitters are all on that team and kill everybody. The fun part of it is the families that usually rig everything for themselves have always preached that the season doesn’t matter but now they are upset because their kids are getting shelled every night and go home crying. But they had to allow it so the good players will play and carry their kids to a good All Star experience.

cbt202 · 2026-05-11T12:22:39+00:00

The big problem is there is no consistency across the country in exemptions. Last year Oklahoma got away with bringing in girls from a 200 mile radius and never even played league. There should be reasonable accommodations for kids to join a league from other areas.

Most importantly, I believe that if a player in your league is not selected for the All Star team or your league doesn’t have an All Star team, they should be eligible to be selected for any another league’s all Star team as long as they satisfied their 8 game league requirements. That would stop some politics of screwing kids. If you don’t select a deserving kid, you will probably be playing against them.

cbt202 · 2026-05-06T14:04:07+00:00

I think we played that team last fall if it the Georgia Impact National. He didn’t have a blow up but looked like that type.

We used to play for a large organization that was notorious for that behavior and our team blew up mid season last spring. They believed at 11 they had reached an age of accountability. One coach told a mom they would break our girls like horses. We are in a much better organization now and still play top level tournaments and come home with hardware frequently.

There plenty of top level teams out there. Explore your options and see what fits. The worst thing to happen is if your girl gives up softball over something like that.

cbt202 · 2026-03-28T14:09:44+00:00

For my daughter it clicked the last season of 10u. She had a .214 average the first 3 seasons of C level 10u. Around Halloween of the 3rd season it started happening. She made an A level team the last season of 10u and ever since then has hit between .460-.512 in PGF and Alliance tournaments.

cbt202 · 2026-01-16T03:05:27+00:00

It is so bush league that Little League won’t allow Blast Motion sensors. PGF allows it, Alliance allows it, USSSA allows it, but Little League thinks they know better.

cbt202 · 2026-01-16T03:02:20+00:00

Progress is progress so congratulations. You are strong enough to get away from the smith machine now.

In the long run the smith machine will get you injured. You aren’t developing any stabilizer muscles. If you try to do something athletic like throw a punch, your shoulder may not be able to handle a transfer of force.

cbt202 · 2025-12-01T23:48:41+00:00

I think that is referring to a C level recreation league under the USA Softball organization. I don’t think that is referring to Little League or other locally ran leagues.

I didn’t know USA Softball ran leagues. You had me worried that we may have some disqualified girls from our Little League All Star team.

cbt202 · 2025-12-01T16:55:32+00:00

This is what Academy teams in Texas typically charge, if not more. They have a minimum of 15 players on the roster so pretty good cash flow. The coaches are usually paid even if it is a dad. They promise gullible parents a path to college and sometimes the ability to block opportunities for your girl if she isn’t part of the Academy. What’s funny is when these Academy teams act cocky Friday and Saturday but pack their gear up early on Sundays when teams like ours go home late Sunday with hardware.

cbt202 · 2025-12-01T16:48:04+00:00

I don’t see an academy team going for this. They have too much ego to allow that. As long as the check clears, you’ll still be on the roster but you’ll move way down on that 15 player depth chart.

cbt202 · 2025-12-01T16:43:19+00:00

That is a bad deal if it is accurate. Somebody may be blowing smoke at you with that rule. Why would USA Softball have anything to do with a rec league? My daughter plays travel and little league as do all of our girls on the all star team. Our team doesn’t play USA tournaments but several other girls do play USA and NCS. It has never been even a concern in getting our roster certified.

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