Assessing the strengths and weaknessess of your player is so very important, at least it is if they love the game and wish to play past HS.
If you have a player that is short (I know there are exceptions) encouraging him to pitch, unless he has great velocity may bring a premature end to his run.
We encouraged our son to hit since he did it fairly well, and because we did not expect him to grow very tall (at 24 he is still 5'11). He loved the game, so we focused on fielding and hitting. He actually pitched his sophomore year in college (throwing 89-91) and was All Conference as a Pitcher and an Infielder.
But his future was not pitching.
I understand that it is difficult to see these things very early, but by his Freshman year in HS, it should be pretty clear.
74 is not going to cut it anywhere other than Club Ball, at least that I am aware of.