Reply to "Colleges Interested in "Two-Way" Players?"

While you do see a few two way players at major D-I schools they are not that common. Many “pitchers only” at division one schools have great hitting stats coming out of high school but are not given the chance to bat. I think the reason for this is the depth of the rosters. Colleges other than the major D-1’s normally don’t have the depth so it would seem to me that a two way player would stand a better chance of doing both at a smaller division.

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2) Any particular thoughts on this practice...things to "look-out" for, etc.?

My son was a two way player for his first two years of college. A catcher/closer his freshman year and a catcher/DH/Weekend starter his sophomore year. He's a junior now and he decided to give up pitching so he could concentrate on catching and hitting. I believe practice improves performance, so it makes sense to me that a player's performance will suffer when trying to do both.
Fungo