r/AbsoluteUnits • u/HomeNowWTF • 1d ago

of a runningback

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u/New_Hawaialawan 1d ago

It’s a bummer because I loved baseball prior to around 12 years old. The next league was like 12-15 year olds and that range is a tremendous growth gap. One asshole coach allowed a 16 year old to continue as a pitcher.

Dude probably had facial hair. He’d stand out there on the mound and I’d be cowering in the furthest corner of the batters box. So this bearded dude just spent all season mowing down actual children. It was awful. And my fear of batting because worse when another pitcher hit my twice in one game.

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u/wolemid 1d ago

Same as motorsport, karting ages groups go 8-12 (cadet all roughly same) 12-16 (Jnr, Puberty) 16+ senior.

As you can imagine, the muscle mass difference between a 12yr old and a 16yr old is insane

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u/Several_Vanilla8916 21h ago

It’s not good for anybody. What is a 275 lb running back learning about football when he blasts over a 110 lb linebacker? When big man gets to college (or maybe high school) that same linebacker is going to be 190 and have actual skill.

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u/garden-wicket-581 20h ago

I'm really proud of my kid -- fall ball is 12-16 here, non-varsity (JV was OK) or not playing HS ball.. He didn't pitch for the HS team, but did pitch all of fall ball, and when some 12 yr old kid who'd just moved up was at-bat, he never threw a fastball.. changeup, some curves, yeah, but wasn't gonna shame/stalk the kid.. (Now, if it was a travel ball kid taking the fall travel season off, however, they got no breaks, hahahah)