Amount of experience necessary in the minor leagues to be ready for the big leagues
quote:Originally posted by bbscout:
For a position player, all of the tools need to be refined. For a pitcher.......same thing. Most young hitters and pitchers need about 3-5 years in the minor leagues to get them ready to be an everyday performer in the big leagues. For a hitter, that is about 2000 AB's and for a starting pitcher it is about 450-600 innings.
The position player needs to learn how to make the routine plays and the pitcher needs to learn how to command both sides of the plate. When they get to this point, they are getting to the point where they can play in the big leagues. Making a routine play may sound easy, but you need to be able to do it every day for six months. If you look at the stats of some of our great stars, they made an awful lot of errors at some of their stops in the minor leagues and an error is a ball judged to be routine that was messed up.
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