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Originally Posted by Brewer77
Syd, good post, good points, however I strongly disagree with you on this. Pitch counts really train pitchers' arms so they can't throw more. Were the pitchers of the 40's and 50's more prone to injury because they consistently threw 150 or so pitches a game?
I may catch a little flack for saying that but I disagree with pitch counts.
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I suspect that the truth will eventually be revealed in further data studies, but if I were guessing, based on things I've seen in the past year, we'll find that there's a middle ground here....
- Pitch counts are fairly obviously valid, throwing a lot of pitches when a pitcher is tired is an almost certain cause of injury.
- A pitcher can be "trained" to throw more pitches.
- A pitcher who throws 110 or so pitches can probably throw every 4th day rather than every fifth.
So I'm guessing that eventually we'll see teams sticking with pitch counts, but going to 4-man rotations again.
Regardless, the PAP viewpoint seems to be strongly supported by data. I support its inclusion in OOTP.