Great stuff, Roger. I’ve been on the “stop babying thepitchers“ band box with the Giants for a few years now. I’m glad to see that the data supports what is just to make common sense – that it’s ludicrous to think you can take some guy who’s thrown no more than five innings at 80 to 90 pitches in a minor league game and suddenly stick him in a major league game and expect him to go six or seven and give you 110 or 120 pitches.
The only way that I can see this changing is limiting the number of pitchers a team can use throughout the course of a season to say maybe 20 or so. But that’s never gonna happen.
Good stuff here, Roger - thanks for the overview and the thoughtful points. Did you hear Mike Krukow’s reaction to the study (on KNBR)? He absolutely agrees that minor leaguers need to build up innings and not be limited as they currently are. More interesting to me was that he could predict shoulder and elbow troubles based on specific pitches - something that I’d never thought of, but I suppose that makes sense if different pitches cause different stresses.
Merry Xmas Roger and the TRG community. A great, thoughtful piece to take us out of 2024.
Cheers!
Merry Xmas Roger
Great stuff, Roger. I’ve been on the “stop babying thepitchers“ band box with the Giants for a few years now. I’m glad to see that the data supports what is just to make common sense – that it’s ludicrous to think you can take some guy who’s thrown no more than five innings at 80 to 90 pitches in a minor league game and suddenly stick him in a major league game and expect him to go six or seven and give you 110 or 120 pitches.
The only way that I can see this changing is limiting the number of pitchers a team can use throughout the course of a season to say maybe 20 or so. But that’s never gonna happen.
Good stuff here, Roger - thanks for the overview and the thoughtful points. Did you hear Mike Krukow’s reaction to the study (on KNBR)? He absolutely agrees that minor leaguers need to build up innings and not be limited as they currently are. More interesting to me was that he could predict shoulder and elbow troubles based on specific pitches - something that I’d never thought of, but I suppose that makes sense if different pitches cause different stresses.
Schöne Feiertage to you and the Mrs.
Could it be as simple as limiting MLB activity based on some assessment of MiLB innings activity?