How Do You Handle Reliever Warm Ups?

[The Game]

This situation i will explain always irks me.


SP gets into trouble with 2 outs in the inning. I warm up a RP and visit the mound. SP gets out of the inning. I don't want the RP to get tired, especially if my offense explodes, which happens when you win 110 G. So I sit him down to start the bottom of the inning (at home). 1st batter GO, 2nd batter single, 3rd batter single, runners on 1st & 2nd. 4th batter GIDP. Now my RP is not ready when i start the top of the inning. I can visit and usually he's ready but not always. I do not want to turn warmups off. i try to get the RP up with 2 outs. Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't.

Update: So the RP i brought in got shelled. Gave up a GS. I get a RP up with 1 out and the RP i had in gets out of the inning. the new RP wasn't ready until the start of the bottom of the inning. i sit him down the 1st batter makes an Out. i get the RP back up. I then proceed to score 4 runs. (solo HR, out, out, solo HR, Hit, 2 run HR, out) When the start of the next inning rolls around the new RP is tiring.
How do you handle your warmups and the situation i explained?

[OutS|der]

Since the AI doesn’t use the warmup rule I just turn it off.

[BusterKing]

I have the warmup rule turned on but to auto sit. In RL relievers don't let themselves get tired when warming up for a game, they pace themselves. When they are auto sit I just put them back warming up again if need be, when they enter the game they do well most of the time.

Do not bring in a reliever unless he is ready.

[oldfatbaldguy]

Auto-sit is the way.

[PSUColonel]

Yes, a pitcher and/or bullpen coach isn't going to allow a RP to tire in the pen. I really do wish the AI would start using warmups although. I do believe they may be working towards this, but it's something that they want to get right with the AI, so it's unclear when this feature may or may not be available.

[Syd Thrift]

I personally don't use the rule. As noted, the AI doesn't use it, and I play against myself a lot and as such I don't really like to think ahead that much (I feel like bullpen usage patterns have a "don't think about it too far in advance" quality to them anyway).

[The Game]

Originally Posted by BusterKing

I have the warmup rule turned on but to auto sit. In RL relievers don't let themselves get tired when warming up for a game, they pace themselves. When they are auto sit I just put them back warming up again if need be, when they enter the game they do well most of the time.

Do not bring in a reliever unless he is ready.

I forgot that this was even an option.

[PSUColonel]

Originally Posted by Syd Thrift

I personally don't use the rule. As noted, the AI doesn't use it, and I play against myself a lot and as such I don't really like to think ahead that much (I feel like bullpen usage patterns have a "don't think about it too far in advance" quality to them anyway).

It’s certainly going to be easier with the DH I’m the NL lol

[Syd Thrift]

Originally Posted by PSUColonel

It’s certainly going to be easier with the DH I’m the NL lol

TBH I’m playing through a no DH era (though that will change in a couple years!) and I feel that a lot of pitching changes in this time period are dictated pretty heavily by the pitcher hitting, or rather being pinch hit for. You generally only leave a reliever in to hit if you’re planning on using him long (and/or “burning him”) or it’s a very obvious sacrifice situation and so it naturally leads to a lot of games where the starter goes 6 or 7 and a reliever or two take over to finish it. I know that in the AL the first year of the DH complete games boomed but it also I think ushered in a lot of situational pitching you can really only do (at least with a 4 or 5 man bullpen) when you can bring a guy in with 2 outs and don’t have to worry about pulling him out after pitching a third of an inning.