The organizations are not lowering their expectations of their pitchers. The contrary FACT is that an aditional thirty minutes minutes spent on the fine points of holding runners, changing speeds, working on a breaking pitch, developing deception in their delivery, etc., etc. will be more productive to their team than spending another thirty minutes at batting practice or another hitting drill.
One would think, though, that the SOBs could at least learn how to bunt!!!
They’re definitely lowering the expectation of pitchers. They used to pitch whole games, they used to hit, they used to be good at more than 3 pitches.