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The other metric for pitchers IMO is IP/season. I'm almost positive you're going to see this trend low for pitchers particularly between around 1950-1980 and while they might make it up by having longer careers, that represents a flatter career path that is ultimately not as valuable to a team's success than a shorter one with smaller tails at both ends.
This seems to be reeeeeeeeeally off for relief pitchers on a year to year basis although again you might well see a Wayne Granger finish his career with around 450 appearances but you're not likely to see 70 games and 100 IP, let alone the 90/144 he did one year (which, you can definitely get the former in fictional leagues so I have argued and will continue to argue that this is not a game engine issue so much as it is a "the way relievers are generated for historical replays" issue).
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The Great American Baseball Thrift Book - Like reading the Sporting News from back in the day, only with fake players. REAL LIFE DRAMA THOUGH maybe not
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