In the Seattle Times this week, columnist Jerry Brewer writes about the fragility of baseball pitchers’ arms. He was referring to the Seattle Mariners’ pitching squad, but survival is a concept youth pitchers need to embrace too as their bodies are growing and more vulnerable.
This is a snippet of what I wrote a “From The Sidelines” column for Parentmap, click here for the full article:
In this article, I only talk about boys baseball, but I’m working on a From the Sidelines piece on girls’ softball to be published this spring. A baseball mom and friend also says parents reminds us that practice pitches should be accounted for. After all, a kid’s arm doesn’t know if it’s practice or a game, injuries can and do happen in both.






