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Post by justinp123 on Sept 24, 2015 11:29:17 GMT -5
I'm sure the club tracks it more closely than just using innings, or that if they don't, they've researched whether it was worth doing so. In the minors, they have at times, at least, had a strict policy that pitchers are to be removed from a game if they throw 30 pitches in an inning. I remember a couple occasions, one involving Matt Barnes, I think, in which a pitcher left a game very early leading to injury speculation, only for us to find later that they had a hard-and-fast rule that you come out if that happens. That said, they don't appear to have that policy in place anymore, so again, I wonder if they did further research into that and found it wasn't useful. I also recall reading that when it came to pitches thrown, they had a policy relating to how many pitches a pitcher threw over a span of three starts, and this was in the majors. Some starter went over 120 for a couple starts in a row and they explained that they weren't worried about it, but would handle him with kid gloves in the third start for that reason. So maybe it comes down to them looking at pitches over a smaller sample size, dealing more with recovery and that sort of thing, but find that innings are a good enough benchmark if you're talking over the course of a season, so long as you are managing the pitch counts and stress at the micro level? i wonder how much of that comes into play when a pitcher has given up a bunch of runs quickly and his pitch count is rising fast and gets taken out. Maybe has something to do with what you referred to and not only that he's given up the runs?
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Post by DesignatedForAssignment on Sept 24, 2015 14:50:56 GMT -5
BETTS PEDROIA XANDER ORTIZ SHAW CASTILLO HOLT 3B HANIGAN BRADLEY CF
MILEY LHP vs. Ramirez RHP
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Post by atzar on Sept 24, 2015 19:03:58 GMT -5
So fun to listen to Speier when he visits the booth. Always has interesting insight and he even coaxes some useful stuff out of Remy at times.
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Post by Nick Rabasco2 on Sept 24, 2015 20:54:22 GMT -5
That's back-to-back nights where Xander has taken a walk in the 8th or 9th inning while being 0 for 3 with a decently long hitting streak on the line. Took the 3-1 just off the plate that last AB, could've tried to slap it to right for a hit. Might not really mean too much but, in my opinion, just thought it was good to see him not carelessly hacking for the sake of extending a hit streak even when it's late in the year playing meaningless games.
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Post by station13 on Sept 24, 2015 21:18:57 GMT -5
Watching a Castillo AB is painful.
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Post by DesignatedForAssignment on Sept 24, 2015 21:43:10 GMT -5
WEEI broadcast said SAT 4pm is the bullpen game. Aro or Breslow to start. Owens is the odd man out in the all important 4-game series vs NYY. ESPN seems to have it right. espn.go.com/mlb/team/schedule/_/name/bos
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Post by mgoetze on Sept 25, 2015 14:40:56 GMT -5
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