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Originally Posted by Drstrangelove
In point of fact, 22% of MLB pitchers spent over 85% of their pre-MLB careers as..... relievers. Meaning that a large amount of pitchers in the MLB were identified early on as being only relievers. Apparently people knew it right away. 15% of MLB pitchers never started more than 5 games in their minor league career. They weren't "used as starters until they weren't good enough...at that point they were moved to the bullpen." They started in the bullpen and never came out.
As was pointed out above, this is false. Enormous numbers of pitchers in MLB were never starters at any minor league level. Many more were not starters at AAA. Some pitchers can't be starters. Ever. OOTP replicates what happens.
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22% is neither a large amount or enormous. Your points are valid, but they don't refute the general opinion in this thread that most pitchers who reach the majors were starters until it was proven they would never be starters in the majors or at least organizations believed that. Nobody's saying EVERY pitcher was a starter. Just that most of them were, which your statistics support.
ETA: You're also passing off the numbers you culled from four teams over one season as representative of all of MLB. In actuality, those numbers could be much higher or lower when considering all teams over a longer period of time.