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If the developers are thinking about it, here's some info I found - this a post from a person called "laflippin" on another message board:
I've personally done the exercise that I suggested in another thread...that is, I spent a rainy day last April compiling the pitching rosters for all 30 MLB teams. Then, I went to the Getty Images site and looked up all ~420 of them. Out of the total ~420 pitchers, I found usable photos of their release point for about 380. I grouped them into RHPs and LHPs and then further broke down these groups into subsets of "over-the-top", "high 3/4", "low 3/4", sidearm, and submarine. After that, the math was simple: In April, 2008, by the definitions I used, there was a total (RHP and LHP combined) of 11% sidearm pitchers in MLB. There was a total of about 7% over-the-top pitchers. There was a total of 2.5% of pitchers who gave clear evidence of using 2 distinctly different arm-slots (one of these was almost always sidearm).
Obviously the information above is not verified, but it's a start, right?
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