Can this kid pitch tomorrow?
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Peter Abraham
Sorry Pete, I already claimed him for the Sox in my 1:52 posting.
Is it too early to move him to some small Caribbean island so we can lock him up?
I meant contractually, of course
sounds like people in the Youth Baseball League of New Haven need to strap on a set!
I just hope they don’t blow the kids arm out before he reaches high school.
My sons were in a league where a similar issue transpired. Kid was a monster far too big and talented to be competing with other 8&9 year olds. They merely moved him up to the 10-12 year old B-league and then to the A-league when he turned 10. There’s always ways of making it work.
Great lesson for the kids. If you don’t get your way, take your ball and go home …. literally.
Kid’s probably smarter than the parents, too.
lol
They’ll probably draft him but he won’t sign because he’ll decide to go to Chuck E Cheese instead. On Boras’ dime of course.
“sounds like people in the Youth Baseball League of New Haven need to strap on a set!”
Yes and no. It is legitimately dangerous to have a kid throwing that hard at that level. At 45 feet, many kids, who at that age are seeing live pitching for the 1st time (t-ball, fathers/coahces lobbing it up, then live pitching is standard fare) will struggle to get out of the way of wayward pitches. As a league, that’s a tough risk to absorb.
The kid should not pitch at that level, but there is no reason why he shouldn’t be able to PLAY at that level. If the kid is hellbent on pitching, they can always put him up an age group.
politics…
“Jericho’s coach and parents say the boy is being unfairly targeted because he turned down an invitation to join the defending league champion, which is sponsored by an employer of one of the league’s administrators.”
Sad how frquently politics are an issue in Little League.
Glad to see the parents of the kids on Jericho’s team have banded together on this. You may win as a team or you lose as a team but you go down fighting as a team. Good lesson.
If he moved to China, he could be 18 already and playing AAA ball
I see both sides of the coin here. He may have great control but kids that age don’t always have the best reaction times so luckily he hasn’t hit anyone yet. I would hate to see a kid get hurt first…these are kids not pros making millions.
At the same time why delay a kid’s development because he’s already miles ahead of his peers.
There should be a win/win solution there somewhere.
We already have enough people who excel at lower league pitching but can’t adjust to the majors – Ian Kennedy, Kei Igawa, etc.
i’m surprised they didn’t stop him from throwing for his arm’s sake… kinda have to think about the kid in terms of his and his arm’s health. It might be a blessing in disguise for this kid.
but seeing as how this wasn’t the reason and all the stupid politics the league is playing… the administrators need to be punished
It is disgusting how he can’t pitch because he is not on the defending champions. This sickens me and is unfair to a kid who is showing that he is very talented.
boo fu(king hoo….you don’t see other teams walking off the field when mariano takes the mound…those kids should be looking forward to playing against someone that good, see it as a test. They are all just being a bunch of babies
It’s pretty simple, as a previous poster suggested: move him up to the 11 & 12 year old league. It doesn’t take a genius to figure this out. Then the 8-10 year olds won’t get hurt, and the kid will develop with kids faster and better pitching against older hitters. It’s a win-win for everyone.
The odds that this kid will ever make it to the majors are extremely long, of course…but let’s say that one day he did. These kids are going to regret that they gave up their chance to bat against a future major leaguer.
I faced one future major leaguer in my lifetime – Jason Ryan (who pitched briefly for the Twins). He was so dominating in High School that we may as well not have shown up for the games.
Take it as a challenge, for crying out loud – I can bet that everyone in this blog who has ever played Little League always had that one pitcher in the league that you just hoped you wouldn’t need to face. But your coach didn’t forfeit the game if you picked the unlucky straw; you went out there and tried to beat him. The kids who played right field in Little League got the biggest thrill of their lives if they actually got a hit off of the unhittable pitcher.
There’s going to come a time where strikeouts are banned in Little League…we aren’t far from that day.
LOL they’re 8-10 year olds not high schools. They’ll only be able to brag about something they’ll hardly remember.
It is all politics though. Had the kid joined the “elite” team, he would have been heralded as the next star and pitched all season!
Kids are turning away from baseball more and more and these IDIOTS can make a rational decision on what’s best for the kid AND the league. Anyone on the baseball committee should be replaced IMMEDIATELY!
Hi i live in connecticut and my brother plays travel ball here in our town of wolcott and i heard that the kid only throws 40 mph and plays in a beginners coed league, i really think the phenom status hes getting isnt really what it seems.
and they also just said he couldnt play in THIS league, they told him to play on a travel team.
he just signed on with scott boras.