karen lotz;688662 wrote:Big blow to the Cards.
Perfectly sets the stage for the Pirates to shock the world!
On a site note, SB Nation's Pirates blog brought the lulz today. Article talking about Jeff Karstens and where he'd be more suited to perform.
But durability really isn't the key question here. It doesn't really matter whether he can get through six innings or not. He shouldn't be starting, since there just isn't any upside. Charlie Morton and Brad Lincoln have upside. Even with Scott Olsen, if you're on the right mixture of psychedelic drugs, you can kind of imagine how he might return to his 2006 form. With Karstens, no. Or, to put it another way, I would rather run the risk of Morton completely blowing a game and having Karstens clean it up than to just let Karstens start the game in the first place.
Also, regarding Karstens' ability to pitch 180-200 innings in a season, there's also the fact that there are only about 1,450 innings per year to distribute to a team's pitching staff. Giving Karstens 200 of them would be a little like consuming 2,000 calories a day, 500 of which come from soda. Yes, you'd survive, but you probably wouldn't feel especially good, so if there's any nutritious food around at all, you should probably eat that instead.
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