In 2019, MLB pitchers faced over 185,000 batters.

The pitcher was directly involved in fielding the baseball (Putout, Assist, Error) around 4 percent of the time.

League wide fielding percentage was 95%.

Also, 2/3& #39;s of the leagues teams were within 2 percentage points of fielding percentage within one another, marked in orange on the graph.

(93.8%-95.7%).

**Data from FanGraphs**

The talent differential in fielding a baseball between a 80th percentile fielder on the mound and a 20th percentile fielder on the mound is worth close to nothing. Even if you assumed pitcher fielding was easily developable, there is almost no return on that investment.

Meanwhile, 33% of those pitcher-batter outcomes ended in either a strikeout or a walk. Not only does this outcome occur almost 10 times more often on average, but there is a much larger talent gap in being able to accomplish this task within the league.

Even if something such as developing the ability to whiff batters isn& #39;t all that developable (it definitely is), it requires so little improvement to have a greater impact in the win column compared to PFP& #39;s or other similar tasks.

Performing low ROI pitching tasks is ridding yourself of opportunity. I& #39;m not saying holding runners or PFP& #39;s shouldn& #39;t be performed, but that time is valuable. Be competent enough at the task, but understand the diminishing returns once your even replacement level at those tasks