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 Originally Posted by Trikflow77
Originally Posted by Lukie
I think people underestimate the amount of stress that a pro level pitcher is placing on his body... tendons, ligaments, muscles, etc... plus they have to do it over a full season, year after year.
Even in the short term, the history of pitching on 3 days rest is well documented... and it's not pretty. I don't have the exact stats on hand, but I just know it's bad. And figure that guys who pitch on 3 days rest are usually doing it because they are a great pitcher.
And lol at comparing what you did in middle school to the major leagues... how fast do kids throw in middle school?
Anyway, something I'm surprised that's never been tried.. instead of the typical 4-5 man rotation (and in this era, pretty much 5 exclusively), have a whole slew of pitchers that throw 1-3 innings, pitching at least every other game... or something like that.
the slew of pitchers thing will never happen, starting pitchers get into groves and yanking them after 2 or 3 innings (the toughest to get through) is insane. I do think a team or two should think about a 4 man rotation though, but it would take time to work it into a mlb club.
I don't think it's going to happen either, but the idea is that you'd form your roster based on the idea that your pitchers would ideally never be pitching more than 2-3 innings, and that batters would never get into a groove because they'd never face any given pitcher more than once in the same game.
kind of a wacky idea, I'm not saying ideal, just intriguing (at least to me).
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