Yesterday at 01:24 AM1 day 45 minutes ago, greg775 said:Tex what is an ace nowadays? A five inning guy who whiffs 10 batters then gets pulled? Does pitching even matter? There are plenty of bodies in our organization who can work an inning or two. Our skipper is always gonna use 5-7 pitchers a game.Another reason for more bodies. Remember when only a couple guys could throw 100+ mph and that would be a knock out pitch in the 9th. Now it's routine and with spin. It's amazing these guys can pitch 5 innings. You are right, we probably will see a lot more openers and middle relief guys. I am excited to see how it works out for a full season. I wish we could expand rosters and platoon guys. Or allow pitchers to reenter games. Open and close.
22 hours ago22 hr 5 hours ago, greg775 said:Tex what is an ace nowadays? A five inning guy who whiffs 10 batters then gets pulled? Does pitching even matter? There are plenty of bodies in our organization who can work an inning or two. Our skipper is always gonna use 5-7 pitchers a game.What choice is there? Have you been watching all these playoff games closely?The Rays and Guardians have also run their bullpens ragged.We only have Burke, Martin and Kay...Luis Castillo should go 6-7 innings?
5 hours ago5 hr 17 hours ago, caulfield12 said:What choice is there? Have you been watching all these playoff games closely?The Rays and Guardians have also run their bullpens ragged.We only have Burke, Martin and Kay...Luis Castillo should go 6-7 innings?Please don't bring up Castillo. He's obviously done, cooked, terrible. Unless he learns the knuckleball he should retire. I just meant we can load up the bullpen with no names cause a body is a body for a 1 inning stint. A dominant starter meant something back in the day. Now all these guys are capable of 10 Ks or more an inning thru five. They are all flamethrowers. Boring.
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