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Think that pitch counts haven't changed the game?

Interesting article on Yahoo

http://sports.yahoo.com/mlb/news?slug=jp-pitchcount042708&prov=yhoo&type=lgns

What I found most interesting was this table in the article which looked across MLB and counted the number of starts with at least 125 pitches for a given season.

2007: 14
2006: 26
2005: 31
2004: 46
2003: 70
2002: 69
2001: 74
2000: 160
1999: 179
1998: 212
1997: 141
1996: 195

It would be interesting to look back and see what happened in 2001 that changed attitudes...

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4/27/082:19 PM

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TPMHSBaseballweb Member since 2003

I am not sticking up for anyone, the Cardinals have many MLB pitchers on rehab from surgery, Mulder, Carpenter as an example.

They have everything very controlled for the young pitchers. Mine is on a 4 day tandem rotation, one day start no more than 70 pitches and your next "start" which is in relief is controlled with how many you pitched the game before. Short pens in between. Ice only if you want to.
Under this tanden system they had no injuries last year in ss and low A so they expanded it to high A. It must be working, everyone is feeling fine and the team is leading the league in wins and lowest ERA.

I am wondering if this was just a TLR let him finish the game thing, if he will get some heat from it under their new mamagement. I am not understanding his comments about not paying attention to pitch counts. I don't see that at the farm level. It's very much a concern.

I think in general the incidence of losing too many pitcher to injuries just became too much for teams to handle.

4/27/0811:20 PM

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