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High School Baseball Players Will Be Subject To Pitch Counts After National Mandate

By DCSAA, 07/21/16, 12:45PM EDT

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By Nick Eilerson; WASHINGTON POST

High school baseball coaches monitor their pitchers with obsessive diligence. They log every pitch, watching for any dip in mechanics that could prompt a change at the mound.

Next year, they’ll be doing the same for opposing pitchers, too. In an effort to curb mounting arm injuries among youth baseball players, the National Federation of State High School Athletic Associations announced last week that every state will be required to implement pitch-count limits before the start of the 2017 season.

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