okay, i throw alot of pitches, and im not bragging. but you could say i have pretty much mastered all of them.
but i have been thinking, i dont need all of them. i need to master but “Perfect” atleast 4 of them. so in your oppinions wich pitches should i use? — build my arsenel.
to many pitches???
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4-seam, 2-seam, Cutter, Changeup
A cutter is a two seam varient like a sinker.
Some colleges like fb, change and the ability to throw both the curve and the slide piece.
My son, a freshman in college headed towards his sophmore year, works both the cutter and the sinker and has a slide piece and curve with a change…on occasion he throws a 4 seamer.
I don’t think it’s possible to have too many pitches, especially if one is not particularly fast. In my playing days I didn’t have a fast ball to speak of, although I did wind up with a 81-mile-an-hour pitch that my coach told me was a fast ball for a finesse pitcher such as I was. Let me see, what did I throw?—
A pretty good curve ball that had come attached to my natural sidearm delivery…a slider that I nicknamed “Filthy McNasty” (after a character in a W.C. Fields movie) because that was exactly what it was, a pitch with a sharp late break…palm ball…circle change…a “slip” pitch, which was essentially a slider thrown with a knuckleball grip…a nice little slow curve…and anyone of those could be turned into a changeup. And of course, there was a devastating little move called the crossfire, which works only with a sidearm delivery, and I fell madly in love with it and used it so much that one day, when my pitching coach (an active major-league hurler) was helping me with my circle change, he said to me “I know you’re going to crossfire it. You use that move with everything you throw.” 
One thing for sure: you have to have the control and command, and I worked continuously on that.