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Originally Posted by evansodo
A follow-up question I had is,
If a prospect injures their arm / hand, and depending on the severity of the injury, is it possible for the injury to delay or stop 'development' of say arm or range rating?
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Very anecdotal evidende here, but arm injuries seem to hurt prospects far more than established guys because of the loss in time played in the minors coupled with the rating loss that can happen, which is why drafting high school pitchers is a complete crapshoot and you have guys drafted in the later rounds who become major league pieces because they never got seriously hurt and were visited by the tcr fairy. I've still had players develop current ratings while on the IL (even pitchers with arm injuries).
Every serious pithcing prospect I sign/draft now gets his strategy locked and managed by me and gets a quick hook, a pitch count and the "quick hook when faitgued" box checked. This seems to have reduced by a lot the amount of catastrophic arm injuries my young players suffer in the minors and leads to more usable pieces in the future when drafted out of juco/college (HS pitchers are still a complete crapshoot though).
Not sure if the same applies for position players. I've had Ohtani need TJ twice, thus ending his pitching career, and he still had a 75 arm in OF when he retired at age 43.