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Originally Posted by waittilnextyear
I was thinking about cross referencing the MiLB pitcher repertoires in the game with my Baseball America Prospect Handbook. So and so is given a slider, but really throws a curveball etc...would that be helpful? Or not? It wouldn't be the entirety of the minor leagues but it would cover the top ~15 pitchers in each farm system.
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Probably not super helpful, because tany top 30-40 prospects per team should all have the right repertoires, based on MLB Pipeline, Fangraphs and Baseball America scouting reports anyway. It's the more obscure guys who are most likely to be off.
Which isn't to say you won't see some differences if you look the top prospects up, but that's mostly because sometimes one scout/report will classify a pitch as a slider and the next as a curve. It's hard to perfectly classify developing pitches a lot of the time, especially since they can look different each viewing. So we do the best we can, but sometimes different places have totally pitch types listed for prospects.