Eli has played travel ball for 3 out of the 4 past seasons. He loves it and the competition at the travel ball level is much better then our local rec league. As of next year he will have the option to try out for the middle school team but he wants to stay in travel ball instead of playing for the school.

As for pitching at the travel ball level they are limited by the number of innings they can pitch not a actual pitch count. As a parent of a pitcher if you are allowing your child to be coached by someone that is not keeping up with their pitch count you need to find a new coach. Elis coach also gives pitching lessons and he is not going to let any pitcher on the team throw more then 75 pitches on any day! The team is 12 years old and the 75 is a max so far this spring he is changing pitchers around the 55-60 pitch count. There is a ton of information and studies being done on youth pitchers and any parent that has a child pitching needs to read all the information you can find about pitch counts.


I personally know a kid now that won't ever pitch at the high school level because of overuse by a coach. The kid at 9 yrs old was allowed to throw 102 pitches in less then 12 hours absolutely ridiculous!