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Originally Posted by Deft
7th-9th innings
The back end of bullpen has been refined in recent years to a very successful formula.
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I've abused similar concepts in versions a few years ago.
12 RP Staff
I disagree with you strongly on the modern bullpen though. Your links show that modern teams are getting less value out of their top pitchers. If you really want to maximize this strat, the goal should be to get both more innings and innings in higher leverage situations from your best relievers. Modern roles should be forgotten and multi-inning appearances embraced.
If you look back at my results, 35 wins and 200 innings were common for my top relievers, capping with an insane 40 win season.
I'm not sure if it's still as easy to get dominant RP in the second round and beyond of the draft anymore. A big part of doing this was to demonstrate just how broken this was in the past.