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baseball questions
I took off about the last 15 from caring about baseball. here' s the biggest change I've noticed now that I'm back: complete games are not important at all- in fact it seems like you're not allowed to get them. I understand with really young pitchers, but the other night Kenny Rogers was cruising through 7, with a big lead and got pulled because his pitch count was high. in the early 90s he'd have completed the game (hopefully).
Was this just a reaction to some study of stats and how often a starter falters in the last 2 innings, or after 110 pitches or something compared to how often a closer fucks up? the Tigers closers have screwed up a couple in the last few weeks when the starter had seemed fine when yanked. Of course with the change you never see when the starter blows it in the 9th.
Anyway, complete games WAS the stud statistic for pitchers.
Another thing, and I know there is no answer for this, but anyway....is there any explaination for a team that never gets runs for one starter compared to the team's other starters- like a guy who pitches slowly cools his own hitters off or some odd thing?
We have a guy who is 13-12 with an ERA of 3.6. He has lost several 2-0, 2-1, 3-2 games, and he should be like 20-5 or so.
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