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Topping 83 but feel like I have more in the tank. What am I missing?

Can any of you guys estimate what you think the velocity is on this pitch from regulation distance?

Not a doctor. I’m a dad of a youth pitcher and pitched myself (needed Tommy John at 18). I went through the published studies on youth arm injuries and pulled out the numbers that seemed most useful for parents.

The one that hit me hardest as a parent: in one study, 47% of youth players said they’d been encouraged to keep playing through arm pain. Unfortunately I've been there before...

Any of these numbers surprise you?

Full disclosure: I built an app for tracking pitch counts across teams, and the full writeup with links to every study is on that site. Happy to share it if anyone wants it, but the studies themselves are the real takeaway. Curious what other parents here have seen.