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In my experience, HS 1B TEND to be slow guys with decent to strong bat.  Some have no real arm.  No arm and no speed is definitely not a recipe for success in college baseball.

But there are also  HS 1b with a decent to big bat who can  pitch, even though they may lack speed. They play FB on days when they are not on the bump.    

Our #1 pitcher in HS was one of the latter sort.   He was a big kid, as  slow as molasses.  But he could definitely drive the ball.     My son, who was a speedster,  could probably have run the bases twice before he finished running them once.  

Fortunately for us,  HS rules allow you to pinch run for a guy and then let him return.   He was often pulled for a pinch runner when we needed a run.  And then returned to the line up the following inning. 

He actually got a shot in college,  as a recruited walk on, at a mid-major D1.  But  neither his left hand  bat nor his left hand  pitching arm were good enough in the end and he was cut after the fall.  

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