The Truth About Pitch Counts: Are You Risking Your Arm? Traditional pitch counts are outdated. They treat every player the same—ignoring players arm strength, fatiguability and how well they recover. That’s a recipe for injury. Individualized Pitch Counts change the game. Instead of guessing, we use real data to set daily limits based on your arm’s condition. Strength, fatigue, recovery—it all matters. Learn more 👇

I think we'll post this every Friday before weekend tournaments begin. Please help circulate this so all travel ball coaches have seen it. There’s a massive problem causing arm injuries at youth travel ball tournaments, and we can change it today. Stop pitching kids on back-to-back days. Every weekend, teams play two pool games Saturday and potentially 3–4 more Sunday. Coaches try to “save” their best arms by throwing them just 1–2 innings Saturday, then bring them back Sunday. But those Saturday innings still create fatigue. And the research is alarming: - Youth pitchers who threw on consecutive days had 2.5x the odds of arm pain. - Another study found that pitchers who regularly pitched with arm fatigue were 36x more likely to be in the group that required shoulder or elbow surgery. Pitch-count eligible does not mean recovered. Coaches need to step up and protect your players. This change can happen now, we don’t need to wait for a change in pitch count regulations. Here is the change: Treat the pool play games like you would any other game, letting the pitchers give you quality innings. Then on Sunday - use the fresh arms that didn’t pitch on Saturday as well as having a couple extra (pitcher only) to help you make a championship run on Sunday. Test arm strength to confirm recovery. If strength hasn’t returned to baseline, neither has the arm. We can debate pitch-count rules and tournament regulations. But there’s one change we can make this weekend: Stop pitching kids on back-to-back days.

Four years strong with @SpiderBaseball and ArmCare! University of Richmond has built a lot of objective data over that time: 🧪 2,223 exams completed 💪 995 lbs total arm strength gained 📈 +43 lbs average strength gain 🔥 +22 average ArmScore gain ✅ 86% of players improved Great to have the Spiders back for year four!

Year 3 with Hillsdale College and ArmCare! Three years of testing and development are adding up: 💪 1,041 lbs total arm strength gained 📈 +54 lbs average strength gain 🔥 +25 average ArmScore gain 💯 101 team average ArmScore 🧪 1,335 exams Great results from the Chargers. Excited to keep building in year three! @HCChargers

Year 2 with @ACBaseball806 and ArmCare! Amarillo College put together a strong first year: 💪 748 lbs total arm strength gained 📈 +27 lbs average strength gain 🔥 +14 average ArmScore gain 🧪 678 exams completed Great to have the Badgers back and building on year one!

Year 2 with @DCMVBaseball and ArmCare! The Lions are back after making progress in year one: 💪 +24 lbs average arm strength 🔥 +13 average ArmScore 📈 89% improved their ArmScore ✅ 81% improved arm strength Excited to have Mountain View back and keep building in year two!

Year 3 with @UKBaseball and ArmCare! The Wildcats continue to build with objective arm strength testing: 💪 463 lbs of total arm strength gained 📈 +24 lbs average strength gain 🔥 +13 average ArmScore gain ✅ 89% improved their ArmScore Excited to continue working with Kentucky.

I think we'll post this every Friday before weekend tournaments begin. Please help circulate this so all travel ball coaches have seen it. There’s a massive problem causing arm injuries at youth travel ball tournaments, and we can change it today. Stop pitching kids on back-to-back days. Every weekend, teams play two pool games Saturday and potentially 3–4 more Sunday. Coaches try to “save” their best arms by throwing them just 1–2 innings Saturday, then bring them back Sunday. But those Saturday innings still create fatigue. And the research is alarming: - Youth pitchers who threw on consecutive days had 2.5x the odds of arm pain. - Another study found that pitchers who regularly pitched with arm fatigue were 36x more likely to be in the group that required shoulder or elbow surgery. Pitch-count eligible does not mean recovered. Coaches need to step up and protect your players. This change can happen now, we don’t need to wait for a change in pitch count regulations. Here is the change: Treat the pool play games like you would any other game, letting the pitchers give you quality innings. Then on Sunday - use the fresh arms that didn’t pitch on Saturday as well as having a couple extra (pitcher only) to help you make a championship run on Sunday. Test arm strength to confirm recovery. If strength hasn’t returned to baseline, neither has the arm. We can debate pitch-count rules and tournament regulations. But there’s one change we can make this weekend: Stop pitching kids on back-to-back days.

Year 3 with @CULionsBaseball and ArmCare! Columbia University Baseball. Three years of objective testing has produced some impressive numbers: 💪 1,871 lbs of total arm strength gained 📈 +46 lbs average strength gain 🔥 +22 average ArmScore gain 🧪 3,420 exams completed 💯 100 team average ArmScore

Another program joining ArmCare! Excited to welcome Defiance College Baseball for their first year using the system. The Yellow Jackets will use objective arm strength testing to build individualized arm care training for their players.

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New-school data meets old-school coaching. ArmCare doesn’t replace a coach’s instincts. It gives them better information to start the right conversations. Strength down today? Why? How did you sleep? Are you sore? Did you throw more yesterday? Are you getting sick? The data starts the conversation. The coach provides the context. That’s how we make better decisions and keep athletes healthy. Technology shouldn’t replace great coaching. It should make great coaching even better.

There’s a massive problem causing arm injuries at youth travel ball tournaments, and we can change it today. Stop pitching kids on back-to-back days. Every weekend, teams play two pool games Saturday and potentially 3–4 more Sunday. Coaches try to “save” their best arms by throwing them just 1–2 innings Saturday, then bring them back Sunday. But those Saturday innings still create fatigue. And the research is alarming: Youth pitchers who threw on consecutive days had 2.5x the odds of arm pain. Another study found that pitchers who regularly pitched with arm fatigue were 36x more likely to be in the group that required shoulder or elbow surgery. Pitch-count eligible does not mean recovered. Coaches need to step up and protect your players. This change can happen now, we don’t need to wait for a change in pitch count regulations. Here is the change: Treat the pool play games like you would any other game, letting the pitchers give you quality innings. Then on Sunday - use the fresh arms that didn’t pitch on Saturday as well as having a couple extra (pitcher only) to help you make a championship run on Sunday. Test arm strength to confirm recovery. If strength hasn’t returned to baseline, neither has the arm. We can debate pitch-count rules and tournament regulations. But there’s one change we can make this weekend: Stop pitching kids on back-to-back days.

4,376 players have gained 5+ MPH with ArmCare.com in the last 3 years. And these aren’t small gains. Among those players, the typical progression was: 74.5 MPH → 84.2 MPH +9.7 MPH in 10.4 months ArmCare combines strength testing, individualized arm care and throwing workload guidance to help players build the strength they need to throw harder and stay healthy. Don’t just throw more. Build a stronger arm.

First year with @UNC_BearsBSB! 🐻⚾️ Northern Colorado is adding ArmCare to test arm strength, make smarter throwing decisions, and build individualized arm care programs for their athletes. Excited to have the Bears on board!

Excited to welcome @baseball_ccu to ArmCare for their first season! The Cougars are bringing objective arm strength testing into their program to help guide throwing, optimize recovery and individualize arm care training. Excited to see what they accomplish with ArmCare in year one

ArmCare is expanding at Michigan! @umichbaseball is back for year three and now Michigan Softball and Water Polo are using ArmCare too. Baseball’s results speak for themselves: 💪 745 lbs of total arm strength gained 📈 +43 lbs average strength gain 🔥 +19 average ArmScore gain 🧪 2,301 exams completed Excited to see ArmCare growing beyond baseball and helping more Michigan athletes measure, monitor and develop.