Starters Distribution (March 3, 2004)
This is a decent article to (re-)read to accompany Rany's good piece.
--posted by TangoTiger at 03:03 PM EDT
Posted 11:12 a.m.,
March 4, 2004
(#1) -
Mike Green
Tango, those our nicely laid out graphs. Points well made.
Posted 11:54 p.m.,
March 4, 2004
(#2) -
Fish Teaser
I never realized how elastic that four man rotation really was. Hearing that the shorter rotation did not increase injury risk always made me wonder why clubs would hand over extra starts to unworthy pitchers. The five man rotation makes more sense when you realize how erratic it was with 4 starters. Allowing the 5th guy to pitch in a regular fashion probably helps his effectiveness. The benefit from taking starts away from your better pitchers is a possible increase in the sharpness of the 5th man. Interesting things I never considered before.