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Originally Posted by StyxNCa
The between inning breaks would account for more than 10 pitches. That's TV commercial time. Next time you watch a game, see how much time elapses between the 3rd out and the next AB. At least 5 mins. If a pitcher throws only 1 pitch a minute he'd never get warm.
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Typical commercial time between innings in the regular season is two minutes. Obviously that increases in the post season when networks are selling more ads.
The bigger issue at hand is that most pitching changes between innings take place as soon as the previous half-inning ends, so the new pitcher who is entering gets the standard seven warm-up pitches on the game mound, not however many he can throw in a two-minute window before the TV break ends. It is conceivable that a pitcher could throw a few warm-up pitches quickly before jogging in to throw his seven on the mound, but he still won't get as many as if he spent the whole inning break in the pen. Quite often we see the guy head out of the bullpen before the commercial break even starts, though.
I could be wrong about this (paging LGO), but I'm pretty sure that if the pitcher who's in the game throws the warm-up pitches between innings, he must throw at least one pitch to the first batter before a pitching change can be made. So a manager can't let his reliever continue to warm in the pen, then make a pitching change after the TV break.
Now, obviously OOTP doesn't replicate inning breaks the same way since the following inning starts instantaneously. So there's really no way for a pitcher to get the proper warm-up time between innings. If Markus codes it to give a pitcher two minutes of bullpen time, that's not realistic if that pitcher is starting the inning. But if that pitcher is warming up to possibly come in if the leadoff hitter gets on, then he should get that two minutes of bullpen time. You can see the obvious conflict in how the inning breaks should be handled.