Pitch counts and development

[SirSaab]

So I’ve gone through my minor leagues at every level and implemented a pitch count (almost exclusively 60, though occasionally 65, and for ONE GUY, 80 lol).

Am I risking stunting the upward development of my young pitchers’ stamina by implementing pitch counts organization-wide?

[ShawnSoup]

I've implemented pitch counts on my players and havent noticed any adverse affects to their development. Although, my counts aren't as low as your counts. I typically keep them around 80 for high schoolers til they turn 21, and 90 for college kids til they've been in my system a couple years. Then again we would need an alternate universe where I hadn't implemented pitch counts.

I think I might make another save file and remove pitch counts and just sim a few years on it to see their development and compare trajectories to where the guys are going now.

[CBeisbol]

Originally Posted by SirSaab

So I’ve gone through my minor leagues at every level and implemented a pitch count (almost exclusively 60, though occasionally 65, and for ONE GUY, 80 lol).

Am I risking stunting the upward development of my young pitchers’ stamina by implementing pitch counts organization-wide?

I don't know of I would do it in the upper minors (AA and AAA)

I do similar in the lower minors and haven't noticed that my pitchers don't develop

Originally Posted by CBeisbol

Here's the pitching staff for one of my league's rookie league level.

Lots of players pitching 2-4 innings per outing.
Most every player starts and relieves.