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Originally Posted by SandMan
...Again it is an awful idea to allow for too many pitchers to go from two pitches to three. It will throw off the balance in the league.
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OK, so I'm clear on this... Are you saying that what differentiates a starter from a closer is the number of types of pitched he can throw? If yes, then I have to apologize, since I'm a newer player, and was not aware of this.
I was under the impression, based on reading through the online manual, that a pitcher's stamina affected his ability to transition from a closer to a MR, to a starter, etc. Now, of course, I'd never throw a pitcher with a 3 stamina into my rotation, but I would take a MR and adjust his "hook" to slower if I wanted to build up his stamina.
BTW, I'm not interested in making closers into starters or anything like that. My point was that, regardless of a pitcher being a starter, MR, or closer, if he can learn a new pitch somewhere in his career, he's a more effective pitcher. Now that's a real life approach, and I don't know the mechanics as it relates to OOTP, but I'm pretty sure most organizations would rather have a pitcher be capable of throwing a 3rd pitch, rather than them sticking to just 2.