Its because they pitch them to death all summer from the time they are 9 years old for the dads who are trying to live through their kids. These guys should throw 200 innings til their about 30 and then be 150-175 after that.
Look at every HOF starter for the last 30 years, they werent babied and limited to 125 innings ever. Now its commonplace.
We make them weak
John Smoltz threw 200 innings for many years, then had TJ surgery, became a RP for a few years and then went back to being a SP who threw 238, 222 and 203 after 4 years as a RP. And here we are talking about Crochet getting past 50 innings. Is that why you drafted him first round?