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Originally Posted by Templer
There have 13 pitchers on the active roster. (Yes, there are starter, reliever and closer. I also know how they are used).
But with the pitchers, not at every game the same player (pitcher) is set as starter.
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Because starters need rest between starts. They can't pitch in every game. Typically (in the modern era) pitchers have four days of rest between starts. In a five man rotation, the fifth starter (generally the least reliable among the staff) will often get skipped or have their start delayed if there's an off day in between the #1 starter's turn and his own. That's the short of it, although it can get more tricky.
The good news is that the game will handle this for you. What you want to do is order your starters from best to worst, then select either "start highest rested" or "occasionally start highest rested" (the latter of which is more reflective of the way pitching staffs are currently handled in real life) and the game will automatically insert the best starting option for a given game.
Edit: Oh, and by the way, it's actually more typical to have 12 pitchers on a staff, not 13. Sometimes AL teams will only carry 11, but that happens less now that wearing out pitchers by working the count is becoming a standard strategy.