LLWS kicks Selects butt

I don't care who you have hitting, a kid who throws between 75-80 at 46' is going to dominate the batters. If he throws the ball around the plate in addition, he will dominate even more. If he actually pitches, i.e., in, out, up, down and changes speeds, he will be Pedro Martinez or Curt Schilling.

I'll guarantee that every select pitcher isn't throwing like that, because if they were, a .200 BA for a tournament would be great!

I got to see quite a few "select" games at 54/80, and I'll tell you that a 13-14 YO at that distance bringing it at 80+ is just as dominating.

Its fun to watch, but until the kids get to the big field and are all relatively the same as far as physical maturity goes, you will always see domination both on the mound and at the plate. if that wasn't true, we'd have seen a lot more ML hitters bat .400 than 1 in the last 60 years, and a lot more pitchers win 30 games than 1 in the last 50 years.

I'm sure there's been more than a few top notch players who quit because they couldn't cope with a BA of .300 or only being able to K 5 a game and that's sad.