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mkersting@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
says...
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> "RJA" <rja@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message
> news:4824e280$0$3370$4c368faf@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > We haven't covered this yet. On Wednesday, with a 9-run lead, Dusty
let
> > Volquez come out in the 7th having thrown 94 pitches. He finished the
7th
> > having thrown 118. Is that wrong?
>
> LOL. Pitch counts are the most overblown stat in the world.
>
> Seriously. As if throwing 118 pitches is really any worse than throwing
> 100.
>
> I wonder how many pitches Nolan Ryan averaged in the 70s???
As if Ryan was the typical pitcher. It's like saying cancer isn't bad
because look at Lance Armstrong.
Hard-and-fast pitch count rules are silly, but pitches are *always* a
concern. Arms are fragile, pitchers are expensive, and the injury rate
among pitchers in the top 10 of innings in a given season is roughly
*half* that of what it was 40 years ago.
It's always a balance between winning now and winning later, but pulling
a pitcher with a 9-run lead is prudence. Do the Reds to maximize the
chances that Volquez is healthy over the next half-a-decade they have
him or do they want to obey a fanciful fiction? The myths of the
superhuman starting pitcher didn't do the teams that had Drysdale or
Blackwell or McCormick or Lary or Sain or Erskine or Sullivan (and on
and on and on) a lick of good once they blew out their arms.
--
Dan Szymborski
dan@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
"A critic who refuses to attack what is bad is
not a whole-hearted sup****ter of what is good."
- Robert Schumann
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