OOTP Drafts, SP vs RP

[Ted]

Been wondering about this for awhile. Why are there always so many pitchers in the draft with two pitches that are classified as starters? I get that a lot of kids coming out of high school have only a fastball and breaking ball, and in real life many of them try to learn change ups or some other third pitch. But this doesn't happen in OOTP. Virtually no one adds another pitch. I think in 10 seasons here and maybe 30 playing against the AI I've seen it less than five times. So if this is your model, why are you calling these two pitch players starters?

It's even more confusing when you add in the guys who have three pitches only by virtue of having a 1 out of 2 rated change (usually) or some other horrible third pitch. (Which was completely useless before '17's ridiculous offseason magic that randomly made some guys go from ratings of like 1 or 2 to 10.) Are those supposed to be the guys trying to learn a new pitch? If so, then it makes even less sense for the game to be calling these two pitch guys starters. Any thoughts?

[allenr]

I don't mind the high schoolers with two pitches being called starters (though with the recognition that OOTP doesn't have them learn that third pitch very often).

The 19 year-olds with 2 pitches though, ya...

[RonCo]

I've always wished they would just all be called pitchers, and let the choice of the GM/manager handle their assignments. There are some problems with that, too, the biggest is the pragmatics of the pre-existing code base.