The current thinking is that kids should wait to pitch until 4th grade, so that and 5th grade makes two years of pitching in little leagues.
Justin Thomas (7), Caden Powell (5), and Nehomar Ochoa (2, 7 season) have all homered for Asheville as they’re trying to come back from an 11-3 deficit to Greensboro.
I watched my mom’s cousin’s kid (9) recently and he’s… not a pitcher. He’s normally at 2B, short, and CF. But, he got to pitch towards the end of one of the games and he sailed his first 4 warmup pitches to the backstop. Somehow, he got two outs in between a pair of walks. The third out was him catching a liner at short to end the game.
Which they did. Thomas hit a walk-off homer in the 9th to give the Tourists a 16-15 win. He now has 8 homers on the year. Thomas's numbers are inflated by the park, but he also has a respectable .823 OPS on the road.
2 years coach pitch to kid pitch at 9U. I played one year machine pitch, but seems like that has gone the way of the dinosaur
