It does not go to the level of child abuse, so I dislike the word "pitcher abuse." Never have, but smarter men than I coined it, so I tag along.

Kevin Goldstein of BA - a guy I'm proud to call a friend - had the story in his essential Prospect Report of Joe Labek, a senior pitcher at an Illinois HS. In the course of pitching a complete-but-separated by a week complete 24 inning game, he struck out 40.

Good. Fine. Enjoy it kid.

The real story is that the coach apparently has little or no concern for the kid. Kevin doesn't agree with me on many things, but one of them is pitch counts. He's smarter than me by a long shot, so I'll leave it to you to judge:

High school senior.
May 17, 9 IP, 18 K, 86 pitches.
May 20, 9 IP, 12 K, unstated number of pitches.
May 25, 12 IP, 22 K, 121 pitches (completion of May 17 game).

Being amazingly conservative, Labek went 300 pitches in the course of a week. A WEEK. The damage might not be seen now and I have no idea what kind of prospect this kid is, but he's less of one now, not more.

(Thanks to Byrne Conley and Joe Sheehan for the data.)