College Roster

The best way to determine this is look at college rosters. Especially those your son may be interested in playing. For those colleges where there may be interest in playing look to see if the roster is loaded up with players who will be there when your son is a freshman and sophomore. For example one school on my son's list had a new coach with nineteen freshmen and ten sophomores. Also look to see how far away from home they recruit if you're not in their region.

Agree with RJM. The best way is to look at a school roster your son is interested in. Also look at the class distribution of positions and pitchers. This will give you a good idea of what they may be looking for in a recruiting class.

Also it is dependant on the Division. D1 schools seem to have alot more pitcher only types with one or two that can hit or play field (two way). I've seen as many as 50% of those rosters be pitchers. Usually they play more games/innings and need more outs On some of the D3 rosters, I've seen more two way players than D1. I'm not sure about D2.

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Also it is dependant on the Division. D1 schools seem to have alot more pitcher only types with one or two that can hit or play field (two way). I've seen as many as 50% of those rosters be pitchers. Usually they play more games/innings and need more outs On some of the D3 rosters, I've seen more two way players than D1. I'm not sure about D2.

I can tell you that some D3 teams need a lot of pitching. While in D1 conference games will usually be one game on Friday, Saturday, and Sunday, D3 teams (such as the WIAC - D3) will play two double headers on the weekend. This requires a lot of quality pitching.

Stu

I was looking at the Texas A&M roster the other day and out of 33 officially listed on the roster, I counted 16 or 17 pitchers.

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Originally posted by Terk7:
Of the 35 roster spots, how many pitchers do teams normally carry? What about position players - what is typical - e.g., # of catchers, infielders, outfielders?

"typical" may be a misnomer but often your MLB 25 man Rosters are comprised of 12 pitchers. Likewise, many College Rosters seem to be near 50% pitchers; 16 or 17 (17 on my Son's Roster).

You often see 3-catchers (at least), 6-outfielders and 7-infielders would bring your Roster to 35.

Obviously, the numbers can vary a few either way depending upon Coaching preferences or Team needs.

Obviously not representative, but one SC D2 school currently has 10 commits from SC...all pitchers...talked to the asst. coach this past weekend at at tourney and he said he's looking at one more arm and then they are going to start looking for middle infielders. This example doesn't give you roster numbers, but does show you where the emphasis is.

Probably the same D2 that will have 70 kids in fall practice.

ThinkPitching,

I understand what you are saying. I agree. Maybe I wasn't clear on the point I was trying to get across. I'm not saying there is less pitching for D3, I'm saying in my experience is there appears to be more two way players (which includes pitching) overall in D3.

I think, at times, we as parents think too much during the process in trying to protect them---my son educated me when I asked him why he chose where he choce---his response was simple---I can play there--if it doesn't work out I can come home and play here

I also believe that the high number of pitchers that are on rosters is because at any given time anywhere from 3-5 of those players are on the shelf for injuries/rehab.