[Syd Thrift]

Although in fairness Charlie Hough, Tim Wakefield, and Phil Niekro all threw/throw a fastball, even if it's only as a "show-me" pitch.

One thing I would looove to see in this or a slightly-in-the-future version of the game is the ability to adjust the percentage of time a pitcher throws a given pitch. If you have a guy in your bullpen who throws 2 pitches really well and 3 not so well and you want to see how he might be used in a starting role, it'd be cool to sit him in long relief and tell him to throw everything he has in his arsenal, whereas a Kazuhiro Sasaki might be told to lay off everything but the 4-seamer and the splitter. I realize this also would probably turn into another thing the AI doesn't do particularly well, but baby steps, people.

Of course, that gets back into a feature request that abailey for one has been asking for for years: a virtual elimination of stamina, perhaps leaving a stamina ability which defines whether a pitcher can last 100 pitches before tiring or 120, but mostly "stamina" ought to be figured out by the number of different pitches a guy throws (with special dispensation given to knuckleballers, given that that is a pitch that you cannot ever adjust to).