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Old 06-11-2023, 11:52 PM   #2
Syd Thrift
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It’s my experience too that when you set things to having the 4 man rotation, every team in the league will run a 4 man rotation, which is what I think you’re seeing. I personally act as the GM for every team in my league and so some teams go 4 men deep and some 5 (I play with 4 men because of the stamina) but I agree that things should be more flexible.

One thing that could help with that is using as played schedules. Teams in the 60s and 70s were brand new to the idea of plane travel making it easy to go from one place to another and as such some of the schedules were absolutely insane, like the Expos played I want to say 32 games in one month in 1971 - all of 2 days off and a bunch of doubleheaders. Teams should use spot starters in those situations because they have to. That also unfortunately might cause the game to pitch guys on crazy short rest…
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