Track Across Teams
Encourage families to record pitching activity across school, travel, league, practice, and lessons—not just one team.
Youth-led baseball safety initiative
Protect Young Arms.
Preserve Their Future.
Helping young pitchers, families, and coaches make safer decisions through pitch-count awareness, appropriate rest, and education about overuse injuries.
PLAY SMART. REST SMART.
Why prevention matters
Understanding pitching injury trends
Pitching workload and recovery deserve attention at every age. Explore the supplied injury-trends infographic below, and learn why tracking pitches across teams can help families have better-informed conversations.
Our Mission
Every pitch matters. So does every rest day.
YouthPitchSafe is a youth-led initiative with a simple goal: help prevent overuse injuries in youth baseball by making pitch tracking, rest awareness, and trusted safety information easier to access.
Respect Recovery
Promote age-appropriate rest and recovery using established youth pitching safety guidance.
Build Awareness
Share practical resources to help athletes, parents, and coaches recognize why workload management matters.
About the initiative
Built for young players, by a young-player perspective.
YouthPitchSafe was inspired by a challenge familiar to many youth baseball families: pitchers may play on multiple teams, while no single coach sees their full workload.
The initiative aims to make it easier to keep one record of pitching activity and encourage conversations about recovery, safety, and long-term player development.
Our goal is to support informed decisions—not replace coaches, medical professionals, or official league rules.
A healthier baseball future starts with better information and a commitment to protecting every young athlete.
- For youth and high-school baseball communities
- Designed with multi-team pitchers in mind
- Focused on education and injury prevention
- Built to grow with community feedback
Meet the founder
Ajay Shah
15-year-old left-handed pitcher · Sophomore at Episcopal High School · Bellaire, Texas
Baseball has taken Ajay from his high school team to travel ball and international prospect competition. He pitches for Episcopal High School, whose freshman team finished runner-up at the 2026 SPC Championships, as well as the Wildcatters and the 18U Team India Prospects team.
Between school baseball, travel teams, practices, and private pitching lessons, keeping track of his total pitching workload has never been simple. Even when game pitch counts were followed, there was no easy way to see all the throwing and pitching activity in one place.
After experiencing a left shoulder strain following the high school season, Ajay was sidelined during the summer and fall Wildcatters seasons. The setback led him to ask a bigger question: Are game pitch counts alone enough to understand a young pitcher's workload?
His injury's precise cause has not been established. But the experience inspired him to create YouthPitchSafe and develop PitchSafe, a tool intended to bring pitching records from different teams, practices, and lessons together and encourage smarter conversations about rest and recovery.
“One pitcher. Multiple teams. One complete pitching record.”
YouthPitchSafe is a youth-led initiative focused on education and prevention. PitchSafe does not diagnose injuries or replace professional medical advice.
The PitchSafe app · Coming soon
One pitcher. Multiple teams. One complete pitching record.
The PitchSafe tracker is being developed to help parents, players, and coaches maintain a clearer picture of pitching activity and recovery needs.
- Log dates, pitch counts, and teams
- Record games, practices, and lessons
- View pitching history across activities
- Support rest-day awareness based on age
PitchSafe App — Coming SoonInterested? Contact Us →
The app is in development and is not yet available for public use. Questions or interested in updates? Email youthpitchsafe@gmail.com. App features and safety guidance will be tested and validated before launch.
⚾ PitchSafeExample preview
Pitching Activity
Player profileYouth pitcher
ActivitiesGames • Practices • Lessons
Team trackingMultiple teams
Rest awarenessAge-based guidance
Illustration only. This is not live player data or a medical clearance indicator.
Learn and share
Pitching safety resources
These independent resources provide a starting point for understanding youth pitching workloads and injury prevention. Always follow the applicable league rules and guidance from qualified medical professionals.
Official guidance ↗
MLB Pitch Smart
Age-based pitching recommendations and education for youth baseball.
League guidance ↗Little League Pitch Count
Review official pitch-count and rest requirements for Little League play.
YouthPitchSafe is an independent initiative and is not affiliated with or endorsed by MLB or Little League.
Get involved
Help create a safer game.
We welcome feedback from families, coaches, leagues, and community members interested in youth pitching safety.
Interested in YouthPitchSafe?
For questions, suggestions, or future collaboration, email us at youthpitchsafe@gmail.com.
We welcome messages from players, parents, coaches, and leagues.