Last week, I took a look at what we really knew for sure about the Reds young hitters. Today, I’m going to turn the lens of sample size to pitchers and see what we see.
Pitchers, as you probably know, are much harder to predict. If you want to know why, I know of no better way to explain than to tell that it takes 2,000 batters faced before a pitcher’s batting average on balls in play (BABIP) stabilizes. That’s about 2 1/2 years of injury-free pitching if your looking at a starter. So, on one level, we must acknowledge that we don’t know everything about any of the young guys yet.