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Injuries. This signing protects the rotation from them. You can’t go into a season with 5 starters you trust anymore, has to be more than 5Leaves a massive hole to fill.
But hey, for the same price per year we got another #3/#4 rotation pitcher that we already have a plethora of at that spot.
Boy, is that ever a correct assessment. Just look at the size of the pitching staffs these days....14 sometimes even 15 pitchers. The starters don't go 6 or 7 much anymore, now it's 5 or 6 or even 4 sometimes. I also wouldn't be surprised to see the magical number of 100 pitches start getting knocked down to 80-90. Even with their load lessened by that much, there will be a ton of injuries to pitchers again.Injuries. This signing protects the rotation from them. You can’t go into a season with 5 starters you trust anymore, has to be more than 5
I agree it’s perplexing. You’d think all these ripped/6 pack guys these days could handle pitching 150+ innings.Boy, is that ever a correct assessment. Just look at the size of the pitching staffs these days....14 sometimes even 15 pitchers. The starters don't go 6 or 7 much anymore, now it's 5 or 6 or even 4 sometimes. I also wouldn't be surprised to see the magical number of 100 pitches start getting knocked down to 80-90. Even with their load lessened by that much, there will be a ton of injuries to pitchers again.
That's one thing about the game I've never been able to understand. Back in the day, starters would go 7 or 8 innings with great regularity and a lot of these guys weren't excatly in prime condition.....a fairly large portion of them were smokers, hung over or just out of shape. Today....most of these kids are phyical specimens but they get hurt all the time.