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Originally posted by kq76
While Kruk is most likely not going to win any literary prize anytime soon, I agree with him that pitch counts are vastly over-rated. I do think there is a point where one can blow out their arm or they lose their effectiveness, but I sense that managers are taking it too far. I was even half-expecting Randy Johnson to get pulled from his perfect game.
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So perhaps you can explain this:
2003 Braves average pitch count
Russ Ortiz 104.6
Mike Hampton 95.8
Horacio Ramirez 98.0
Shane Reynolds 90.8
Greg Maddux 81.2
2002
Tom Glavine 99.5
Jason Marquis 88.2
Damian Moss 97.7
Kevin Millwood 96.1
Greg Maddux 78.7
2001
Tom Glavine 97.9
Jason Marquis 98.0
Kevin Millwood 88.0
John Burkett 96.7
Greg Maddux 87.6
Leo Mazzone does not use pitch counts.
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"I don't want to see them( pitch counts)," says the most successful pitching coach of his generation. "My eyes are gonna tell me more than any (expletive) number."
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Yet what his eyes told him matched closely to what pitch counts would have told us.