Complete games are becoming rare.

[UK1679666180]

A PC has to be able to spot when a pitcher is throwing fatigued to be the point where it's impacting his mechanics (overthrowing or dropping the arm, etc).

 

Each pitcher is diff. each time thru the rotation, a pitcher's body will react differently thru the recovery time between starts to the actual pitching.

 

I'd rather be too cautious rather than too careless.

 

Unless the game has already been decided and the starter is till out there or it's past 120 consistently, I don't pay attention to pitch counts.

[CuseCubFan69]

A PC has to be able to spot when a pitcher is throwing fatigued to be the point where it's impacting his mechanics (overthrowing or dropping the arm, etc).

 

Each pitcher is diff. each time thru the rotation, a pitcher's body will react differently thru the recovery time between starts to the actual pitching.

 

I'd rather be too cautious rather than too careless.

 

Unless the game has already been decided and the starter is till out there or it's past 120 consistently, I don't pay attention to pitch counts.

 

What I would do is have some guy in a booth that is just watching the pitcher with the use of scientific methods, kind of like they do when they mimic guys for a computer game or have his motion by motion analyzed. He knows the exact motion that say, Z uses. Once he starts to differ from the norm, take him out.

[NCCubFan]

Remember last year when we were sweating that we would be the first team to go an entire season without a complete game? Well, Rich Hill finally got one late in the year.

The Cubs actually had two complete games last year, and both were by Hill. The second one was rain-shortened.

[Mephistopheles]

Did you come up with this theory all by yourself? Of course this is happening as micro-managing is becoming widespread and the [female-anatomy]ication of baseball. Brilliant!

 

Now that I said that, I think within twenty years teams are going to move to three mean rotations where their starters throw say 75 pitches max and then there are tons and tons of relievers. This can work because teams will carry 13 pitchers as position players are becoming more and more flexible as offense rises and defense becomes less valuable.

 

There's some macro-baseball ideas for you

 

I understand it's really not my place to be calling him out, but honestly, the whole "I'm so much smarter than you, trust me, I'll tell you" game is getting really annoying. Why can't you just post like an average person?

 

Insecurity will do that to a person roast.

 

You realize both of you have insulted him, while he hasn't insulted anyone. You can both put him on ignore if you don't like his posts, or you can complain to the mods about him. But these posts are unnecessary and against board guidelines.

 

It's nice to see mods recognizing that I don't insult people. And to get on topic, complete games have been in gradual decline for 100 years and show no sign of slowing down anytime soon. It's probably for the better.