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Originally Posted by Garlon
I agree the fatigue model prevents pitchers from being overused and that is why it is good and makes sense and any changes to how it is modeled would have detrimental effects to the entire league.
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Please don't say you agree when it's clear that you don't. Especially if you're going to put words in my mouth and imply I want to overuse pitchers when in most cases I want to use them less than they currently are.
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Originally Posted by Garlon
If you want Maddux to pitch every 4 days then use a 4-man rotation. You can bring Maddux in to pitch every 4th day even with a 5-man rotation, but he will not be fully rested, which is the point of the rotation setting in the game.
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That setting does not exist on a team level. I very literally *cannot* do that.
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Originally Posted by Garlon
Mariano Rivera was a great as he was because he was not used 100 games per season. He was not underused; he was optimally used so that he would not get worn out and injured.
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Well, I guess it's just a crazy coincidence that his best season out of 18 relief seasons (in both WAR and WPA) just so happens to be the one year he wasn't obscenely wasted as a 'Closer' and was allowed to actually pitch when the game was on the line instead of being locked in a cage that doesn't open until the start of the 9th inning.