@hegone44 said in Seaver has a 20 mph gap between FB and change:
Guys on here are making fun, but OP is 100% correct. Gagne's vulcan change wasn't 69 MPH, his curveball was. Same with guys like Kershaw, Grienke, Oswalt. The very nature of what a changeup is, and how one throws it, makes it impossible to achieve -20 while maintaining deception. If a pitcher who throws 96 MPH had a 76 MPH change it would either (a) have a lot of top spin (curveball) or result from motion changes. It's just a video game, but there's 0% chance that Tom Seaver had 96/76 with deception. In real life he either didn't throw 96, had a faster change, or both.
These are the pitch speeds in game
Kershaw Change-85, Curve-72
Greinke change-83, Curve- 72
Oswalt Change-83, Curve 72
Gagne V change-84, Curve-71
Seaver- Change-77, Curve 73. You might have an argument for seaver, but with the rest of the names you brought up I really don’t know what some of you are on about