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Originally Posted by Matt Arnold
In real life, if you get a pitcher up, you should plan to bring him in. If you decide not to bring him in, then you should sit him down and then get him back up when you're ready to use him.
If pitchers in the pen never got tired, then you could do like in the past and get a pitcher up and ready in the 5th inning, keep him up until you need him in the 7th, and he'd be in perfect shape. Heck, you could start a guy warming in the 1st without any detrimental effect.
And anyways, just because a guy warming up switches to "tiring", it's not like he immediately loses all effectiveness. Keeping a guy "tiring" for a couple batters is probably not going to noticeably affect him at all. If you keep him warming up for an inning without using him, then yeah, that would have an effect, but I'm pretty sure that that would also be the case in real life, and that's why guys will start sitting down as soon as they know they're not coming in soon.
Basically, if you like the strategy of deciding when to get a guy warming up to get ready to come in, the strategy of making sure that he's not in the pen for too long is basically no different.
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I see your points, but not asking for the ability to warm up a guy in the 1st then leave him up there for the remainder of the game. With the current system, it feels like guys get "tired" in the bullpen quicker than they would if they were pitching in the actual game!
Does. Not. Compute.
For instance, I get my setup guy up with 1 out in the 7th as I am pitching. The inning ends but I'm pretty sure I want him to start the 8th, so I leave him "up" while I bat in the bottom of the 7th. Normal half inning - no big rally or anything. Then, 8th inning comes around and. . . he's tired.
I don't dare sit him down between innings, either, as he may get "cold." The system is just off - doesn't feel realistic. I mean, does this mean the dumbass kept throwing? C'mon, man.
Maybe have a complete two inning "up" stint have some sort of impact on him? Or a set number of batters - say, 10 batters faced, combined offense and defense, and a pitcher gets tired. Better still, if you get him up 3 times in the pen, he gets tired. That's realistic and something you do hear warnings about in real life baseball settings. Something - anything besides the current setup.
I know this has been brought up since it was instituted yet you guys seem hell-bent on keeping it in the game, with no ability to modify or turn it off.
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SAD!
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