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Originally Posted by RchW
This surprises me because his endurance is low. How many innings does he go as a starter? Seems like he would only go 4 innings at best. What are his true ratings? Scouting may hide something.
I've had pitchers change roles before but usually in response to endurance increases.
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Well looking at Shaw above (with an incredibly small sample size) he's only averaging a little over 3 inning per outing (including 2 relief appearances) so unless those two relief appearances were each no out outings the AI isn't getting much out of him inning wise.
Whether a pitcher is worth more to a team at 4 innings or less per five games or an inning every other game is up to a completely different debate. My problem with the AI employing this kind of philosophy is that I doubt he's built his bullpen taking this kind of concept into account. If a human user were to use their closer this way they'd either carry more bullpen arms or stack their pen arms with endurance.