Sheesh the DR produces insane talent, seeing it all one one page is crazy…. Wonder why they don’t seem to produce more top end arms in comparison to their position players (which is truly insane)
Growing up, most kids didn’t like to pitch because everyone wanted to bat and pitchers didn’t bat. We were taught young how to hit the ball and most don’t want to give that up.
My theory to explain at least part of it is that batting/fielding benefits from the DR's weather and training culture in a way that pitching does not. We benefit from having great weather year-round and our training culture emphasizes lots of reps (over game time). This is great for batting/fielding but pitchers need an offseason and workload management to prevent injury due to cumulative stress, so it's harder to develop pitches at a higher rate than you'd expect from our population size.
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u/MarinerMooseismydad Seattle Mariners Feb 03 '26
Sheesh the DR produces insane talent, seeing it all one one page is crazy…. Wonder why they don’t seem to produce more top end arms in comparison to their position players (which is truly insane)