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Originally Posted by olivertheorem
* - I obviously do not know Markus' mind on this, but perhaps he has it this way on the notion that the extra 4 years in HS/college (more for guys that make the HS-to-college transition) are sufficient for them to randomly acquire a third pitch, in which case the underlying issue may be that new pitches are not learned often enough, and not that HS/college players are not created properly.
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That's perhaps part of it. As I said earlier, hopefully it should be a matter of more pitchers having 3 pitches, but most of them only really developing 2 of them. The problem perhaps is how the AI handles borderline cases (eg a pitcher with a fastball, changeup and slider rated 10, 9 and 5, with 6 or 7 stamina, should they be a SP or a MR?). Players like that may well bounce back and forth between the bullpen and the rotation, which doesn't really happen much in real life.