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Originally Posted by Matt Arnold
For that player above, I would probably start him in the minors to develop that pitching. Maybe if you're lucky he'll add a 3rd pitch. Or if not, maybe throwing him 4-5 innings every 5-6 days as a sort of spot-starter still could give him some use and get some innings. He has at least a modest stamina, so while he doesn't have the 3rd pitch, I would expect he should still be able to get through a lineup twice without getting destroyed.
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I read this in another thread and found it an interesting comment. In my current run I had a rash of SP injuries and wound up with a less than ideal couple of arms in the rotation. I have a strong LR with 40 stamina who I could have put in the rotation but I opted to use him in more games as a long reliever. As a result one of my starters has 35S/50M/60C with a 45 fastball, 40 curveball, and 20 changeup - hardly ideal.
He was getting shelled pretty regularly and I kept dropping his pitch count until I realized I could cap his batters faced. Just basing things on the generalized statement quoted I capped him at 18 batters faced. From that point forward he rarely got rocked and performed mostly around average with more good games than bad (I do have a great defensive C).
Does anyone have more experience limiting batters or best utilizing a P with high stamina but a limited arsenal? In a very small sample size this appears to be working. Obviously he isn't throwing many innings/start but the innings he throws are mostly good.