Originally Posted by Rob Kremer:
The bias toward tall pitchers in the draft has been discussed on this board before, but there's a pretty good illustration of it again in this week's Baseball America draft preview edition.
Out of the top fifty pitcher draft prospects, not a single one is listed below 6 feet tall. And most of them are 6'3" and above.
The second fifty has a total of two guys listed who are five foot something.
I'm no expert, but size still seems to matter a lot in the evaluation of pitchers.
Whether or not size is that closely correlated to success in MLB - well, that is still open to question. But the bias is most certainly present.
Out of the top fifty pitcher draft prospects, not a single one is listed below 6 feet tall. And most of them are 6'3" and above.
The second fifty has a total of two guys listed who are five foot something.
I'm no expert, but size still seems to matter a lot in the evaluation of pitchers.
Whether or not size is that closely correlated to success in MLB - well, that is still open to question. But the bias is most certainly present.
Yes. And the way I see it is that it's so because it's really a matter of simple Physics.