Pitch Tracker
Pitch counts, rest days and rotation planning for youth baseball and softball teams
Pitch Tracker keeps your pitching staff legal and healthy without a spreadsheet. Log each appearance once — pitches thrown, innings pitched, innings caught — and it applies your league's published limits, rest brackets and consecutive-day rules to every pitcher on the roster, then tells you who is available for the next game and who is resting until when.
It is built for the coach standing at the fence on Saturday morning with two games to get through: the answer you need is not “what does the rulebook say” but “can this kid throw today, and if I use him now, when do I get him back”. That is the question this tool answers.
Example roster — not live data. Tap a card to see the reasoning behind a status.
Availability board
Every pitcher on the roster, sorted worst-first: who can throw today, how many pitches they have left, who is resting and the date they come back. Tap a name for the reasoning and the recent appearances behind it.
Multi-league rule engine
Pick your league and age division once and the limits, rest brackets and consecutive-day rules apply themselves to every appearance you log. Leagues that count innings instead of pitches are handled as innings.
AI rotation advisorClub
Enter the next few games — dates, opponents, how much each one matters — and get a suggested rotation that respects current availability instead of one you have to re-check by hand.
Catcher conflicts
The rules that cross positions are enforced too: innings caught that disqualify a pitcher, and pitch counts that disqualify a catcher, in the leagues that carry them.
Arm care report
Workload across the season rather than the last game — who is carrying the innings, who is throwing on short rest repeatedly, and where the risk is accumulating.
Import, export, share
Bring existing counts in from a CSV, take a printable availability sheet to the dugout as a PDF, and share a read-only link with an assistant coach or a parent.
- Little League Baseball
- USSSA Baseball
- Cal Ripken Baseball
- Babe Ruth Baseball
- Pitch Smart (Generic)
- USA Softball
- USSSA Softball
- Little League Softball
Leagues that modify the published rules locally — and many do — are covered by custom rules on the team, so a stricter daily maximum or an extra rest day is entered once and then enforced like any other. You can read every rule set the engine uses, with its source, in the pitch count and rest rules lookup — no account needed.
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How many pitches can a 12U pitcher throw?
It depends entirely on which league you play in, which is why the honest answer is a lookup rather than a number. Under Little League's published pitch count regulation a pitcher in the 11–12 division may throw 85 pitches in a day; Cal Ripken 12U uses the same 85. USSSA does not count pitches at 12U at all — it limits a pitcher to 6 innings in a day. And any league may adopt something stricter locally. Look up your league and age division →
What are the pitch count rest rules by league?
Pitch count leagues use a bracket ladder: the number thrown in one outing decides how many calendar days of rest are required before the next one. Little League and MLB Pitch Smart use the same brackets through 14U — 1–20 pitches requires no rest, 21–35 requires 1 day, 36–50 requires 2, 51–65 requires 3, and 66 or more requires 4. Cal Ripken and Babe Ruth use a shorter three-step ladder, the 16U brackets are set higher, and USSSA counts innings instead. Most leagues also forbid pitching on three consecutive days regardless of counts. The rest rules lookup shows the full table for your league, with a link to the source.
Is there an MLB-style pitch counter for youth baseball?
MLB's guideline set is Pitch Smart, and it is one of the rule sets you can select here — useful if your league publishes no limits of its own and you want to coach to a recognised standard anyway. Pitch Tracker applies whichever set you pick to the whole roster; it is a workload manager rather than a pitch-by-pitch clicker, so you log an appearance after the game and it does the arithmetic for the days after.
Does it work for softball?
Yes. USA Softball, USSSA Softball and Little League Softball are all carried, with the same split between pitch-count and innings-based leagues. Fastpitch pitchers are governed very differently from baseball pitchers, so the rules come from each organisation rather than being borrowed from the baseball side.
Can I bring in counts I have already recorded?
Yes — the importer reads a CSV with a game date, a pitcher and a pitch count, and everything else is optional: add innings pitched, innings caught, opponent or a team column and it uses them. Download the import template to see the columns.
Is Pitch Tracker free?
No — it is part of the Coach plan ($12 a month, one team) and the Club plan ($29 a month, up to 15 teams, with the AI rotation advisor). It keeps a running history per team across a season, which is what a subscription pays for. The rules behind it are not paywalled, though: the pitch count and rest rules lookup gives you every league's limits, rest brackets and a when-can-they-pitch-again calculator for free, with no account at all. See what each plan includes →
Rules are sourced from official league documentation. Always verify with your league's official scorekeeper before game time.