Ratings Question

[wbcfan]

When you're looking at a pitchers rating screen, it has their pitches at the bottom of the screen with a number next to it and also a number next to the potential. Is that number for control or movement?
Thanks!

[OntarioMikeW]

Originally Posted by wbcfan

When you're looking at a pitchers rating screen, it has their pitches at the bottom of the screen with a number next to it and also a number next to the potential. Is that number for control or movement?
Thanks!

Neither. That would be the "stuff" rating for the pitch--how hittable or unhittable it is. Control and movement are separate ratings.

At least that has always been my understanding.

[wbcfan]

Originally Posted by OntarioMikeW

Neither. That would be the "stuff" rating for the pitch--how hittable or unhittable it is. Control and movement are separate ratings.

At least that has always been my understanding.

Well Stuff has its own category above with movement and control under "Pitching", but at the bottom of the page under "Pitches" there's a number next to each pitch also.

[AdequateRandomGaming]

Originally Posted by wbcfan

Well Stuff has its own category above with movement and control under "Pitching", but at the bottom of the page under "Pitches" there's a number next to each pitch also.

The Stuff rating is a combination of the stuff for each individual pitch. The number next to each individual pitch is the Stuff rating for each one. It's useful to determine if a pitcher should be a SP or a RP, among other things. If your pitcher has 2 strong pitches and a really crappy 3rd one, he probably should be in the pen, despite technically having more than 2 pitches.