What/where are these cases? That would equate to nearly 14 games. I have participated in youth softball and played it myself. Nobody plays 14 games in a weekend, not even the lil ones.
Are softball pitchers effectiveness over with after a season or two? No way to really compared it to baseball in college-MLB because there isn't any pro softball to speak of. Maybe the Olympics but that would be too small a statistical sample.
Quit trying to be difficult, I said it was similar I never said anyone swings their arm in a windmill motion.
The Landry kid in rf is their best all around player and situational hitter. im glad the announcers caught on to that. and beth torina made a smart decision moving the 3b ahead of the catcher in the batting order. anyhow, fast pitch softball is always entertaining if you have a horse in the race. no offense to the equinial lesbos suiting up. i think hes saying and id agree, throwing overhand may be instinctive but much more stressful on the shoulder than underhand. these chicks pitching 300 pitches in a day proves that. and multiple games. then again, baseball pitchers in the past did this.
And their conclusion right off the bat..... ": Excessive distraction stress at the throwing shoulder is similar to that found in baseball pitchers, which suggests that windmill softball pitchers are at risk for overuse injuries. Normative information regarding upper extremity kinematics and kinetics for elite softball pitchers has been established." As for their statistic of 2,000.....lol. There is no footnote so they pulled that right out their ass. 10 games during a weekend tournament? Hilarious. At 7 innings, that is roughly 2 hours per game with some room for changing fields, re-marking base lines, warm-ups, umpire instruction etc. 5 games in one day would obviously be 10 hours of back to back softball and just one pitcher doing all of it.....it just doesn't happen. Even if you say it's 3 days (most tournaments are 2), there is still no single pitcher going 2,000 pitches in 2 or 3 days. Most rec leagues and tournament directors set up rules to limit the number of innings a girl can pitch in a weekend. So if you blow your wad on your A chick on Saturday, that's your problem and you better hope B chick has a good day on Sunday. College softball doesn't enforce a pitch count but the coaches do. Why wouldn't they?
I never said it won't effect your arm. Maybe I should have said, an underhanded pitch is far less stressful on an arm than an over handed pitch.
Sorry but I gotta call bullshit on that one. If you so much as type too much it's not good for you. Overusing softball pitchers' arms takes its toll. They don't go on to pitch in the "Pro's" so you don't see it.
It's far from bullshit. A softball pitcher can throw around 700 pitches a week. A baseball player can throw around 200, 250. You may stop your internal dialogue now.
