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Originally Posted by Lukas Berger
I think we're open to ideas and suggestions if anyone has some good thoughts. Definitely seems clear a change is needed, but it's really not so obvious how that should happen.
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Never mind how to change things so that it doesn't just totally screw everything up in the regular season too.
We will have openers be an option for next year, which should let you Rays it up if you want. And that should at least let the opener/follower rest logic make sense (ie. the opener will be treated like a reliever, and the follower will be treated essentially like a starter). But this recent playoff trend of throwing a starter for like ~15 pitches on their throw day and not expecting it to affect their next start...
Of course, a lot of this is not necessarily all that far off from our regular logic, especially since it's not like starters were going all that deep. Price still had under 100 pitches this last game when he was pulled, so we can't know how much more he could have gone. Eovaldi was obviously exhausted when he gave up that last HR - I've thrown a bullpen arm maybe not quite that much, but definitely pretty long before they simply fall apart.