BR1986FB;875290 wrote:Agree with the "old school" mentality but these teams shell out so much for their "investments" that they want to get as much out of them as possible, in the long haul.
You know as well as me that back in the day you'd have to fight a starting pitcher to get him off the mound. A lot of his compensation/bonuses were predicated on how many complete games he threw.
I remember when Nolan Ryan took over as President of the Rangers, he said this...
“I haven’t been pleased with the direction baseball’s taken pitching over the last 15 or 20 years, and I felt like we needed to regain some of what we had lost,” Ryan said. “I felt like we had a lot of pitchers that have been on pitch limits ever since Little League, and we don’t know what their genetic potential is as far as the number of pitches and workload they can handle.”
As the Rangers lead over the Angels has dwindled in the past few weeks he is saying this...
"I'm not as worried about the offensive and defensive side of it as much as I am the pitching. They're just not sharp. They looked fatigued. These are the dog days, and this is when you have to push yourself."
These are the dog days and they are pitching in the heat of Texas. These(Rangers) pitchers SHOULD be on a pitch count. They don't have Cliff Lee to rely on this Fall. All 5 of their starters have over 150 IP and no other AL team has more than 3.
