HS/College pitchers need to be fixed in 14!

[Lukas Berger]

Originally Posted by BIG17EASY

I don't think that's a wise assumption. I live in an area that produces very few Division I-caliber baseball players and even less MLB Draft-caliber players, and most high school pitchers throw three or more pitches. They obviously aren't particularly good in the grand scheme, but many kids who can't break 80 mph with their fastball still throw a breaking ball and a third pitch (changeup, cutter, etc.).

Considering you're taking data from Perfect Game, which typically deals with the better high school players, I'm confident that the average stays above three pitches.

You're probably right. We'll wait and see what the data says.

It is worth noting that if guys do throw a cutter that it won't show up in the PG data, they only list regular FB's and occasionally split-finger FB's. So the actual amount of pitches thrown will be higher than the data says, since some guys do throw cutters.

[The Wolf]

Originally Posted by NomarHits400

Even if this works as intended- and this may have already been mentioned, it utterly ruins my desire to perform a draft in feeder leagues: Drafting a SP past the first round is an utter crapshoot. Almost all the good prospects have two pitches. The game doesn't give me any tools with which to decipher or predict who might develop that elusive third pitch- if at all, which I've never had happen with any success with any pitcher I've drafted. I've abandoned Feeder leagues completely because of this.

An excellent summary. The two-pitch feeder league SP problem really needs to be fixed.

[StyxNCa]

Hope their voices have changed already.