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Well, I handle pitching by trying to distribute batters faced among my pitchers according to real-life proportions. If my pitchers faced a total of 6,090 batters in real life, Eichhorn faced 612 batters, and in OOTP the pitchers have faced 1,109 batters so far, then I would expect Eichhorn to have faced 612/6090 x 1109 = 111 batters so far. If he has only faced 95 batters, then I know he needs more work. Before each game I just sort my pitchers based on the amount of work they need, and then try and use the guys who need the most work.
The problem is that he always needs more work. I'm not too concerned with him pitching exactly 157 innings, but I know that regardless of how his playing time is measured, he is not pitching enough, and the reason I think is that OOTP's fatigue system is trying to limit him to a modern reliever's workload. Generally I don't have a problem with that, but it shouldn't be difficult to manage relievers with unusual playing time (eg Bob Stanley 1982: 48 games/0 starts/168.1 innings, or Mike Marshall 1974: 106 games/0 starts/208.1 innings).
What I'd really like to do is get Eichhorn a few five-inning starts here and there, but in relief he always seems to tire in his third inning of work, so I don't want to start him if he is only going to pitch 2 innings. Either that or I want him to pitch about 2 innings every other day (which would be 81 games, 162 innings), but when I've tried that he's frequently tired and I feel like I'm going to wreck his stats.
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