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Originally Posted by Cinnamon J. Scudworth
And I don't know why the warm-up rule would have anything to do with it. That seems entirely disconnected from pinch-hitting performance.
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I agree. But when you play through 7 seasons suffering from this you have enough time to think about it and come up with theories what might be causing this. One thing I came up with (founded on absolutely nothing, pure speculation) is that somehow the warm-up rule affects not only relievers but all players. If you bring in relievers without warming them up their performance decreases dramatically. Perhaps the warm-up rule affects other players as well (unintended), causing pinch hitters to perform dramatically. Somewhere in the programming some knots may be tied wrongly. I know absolutely nothing about programming, so this "theory' is probably pure balony, but it could be something like this.