Starting Pitcher Fatigue in Relief

novamustangs · 09-13-2007, 05:46 PM

Like many MLB teams do, I've brought up a young starting pitcher from the minors and put him in a relief role for my Major League team. He seems to have a very difficult time recovering after an appearance. I had him throw 1 inning, about 15 pitches and the next day he was at 0% - totally exhausted. His endurance is about 70 and I've changed his role to MR.

Why does he seem to have a starting pitcher's recovery time when only pitching 15 innings in relief?? I play in commish mode so I looked at the editor to see if I could change something, but didn't find a logical attribute to alter. Any ideas?

akw4572 · 09-13-2007, 08:12 PM

Change his position to relief pitching for the time being, that should solve the problem.

injury log · 09-13-2007, 09:17 PM

I tested this once, very quickly, and reached the conclusion that recovery time was based on Endurance, not on the position (MR, SP) I assigned the player. To call it a test might be an exaggeration- I let an MR start a game, throw 100 pitches, and watched how he recovered day-by-day, then changed him to SP, let him throw 100 pitches, and again watched how he recovered day-by-day, and the recovery rate was identical. Far from comprehensive, but it gave me the impression that the Set Position might have no effect, and that Endurance guides recovery in-game. If anyone has tested this further, I'd be curious about the results.

RchW · 09-13-2007, 09:54 PM

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Originally Posted by injury log

I tested this once, very quickly, and reached the conclusion that recovery time was based on Endurance, not on the position (MR, SP) I assigned the player. To call it a test might be an exaggeration- I let an MR start a game, throw 100 pitches, and watched how he recovered day-by-day, then changed him to SP, let him throw 100 pitches, and again watched how he recovered day-by-day, and the recovery rate was identical. Far from comprehensive, but it gave me the impression that the Set Position might have no effect, and that Endurance guides recovery in-game. If anyone has tested this further, I'd be curious about the results.

My test wasn't much more than yours. I took a SP who pitched in relief 1-2 innings. After the game he was at 10%. When I changed him to MR his status changed to 70%. From this I conclude he could have pitched the next day as a MR but not as a SP.

T'would be nice to have this definitively tested.

Terpripken · 09-13-2007, 11:08 PM

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Originally Posted by RchW

My test wasn't much more than yours. I took a SP who pitched in relief 1-2 innings. After the game he was at 10%. When I changed him to MR his status changed to 70%. From this I conclude he could have pitched the next day as a MR but not as a SP.

T'would be nice to have this definitively tested.

Yes...I did nearly the exact same experiment with SP Seth McClung in my Rays dynasty. I came to the same conclusion.

injury log · 09-14-2007, 05:43 AM

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Originally Posted by RchW

My test wasn't much more than yours. I took a SP who pitched in relief 1-2 innings. After the game he was at 10%. When I changed him to MR his status changed to 70%. From this I conclude he could have pitched the next day as a MR but not as a SP.

T'would be nice to have this definitively tested.

Aha, interesting! I've just seen this happen as well. So nix my earlier comment- the set position does seem to matter. I'm curious now, so may try to get to the bottom of this one.

09-13-2007, 05:46 PM	#1
novamustangs Minors (Single A) Join Date: Apr 2006 Posts: 51	Starting Pitcher Fatigue in Relief Like many MLB teams do, I've brought up a young starting pitcher from the minors and put him in a relief role for my Major League team. He seems to have a very difficult time recovering after an appearance. I had him throw 1 inning, about 15 pitches and the next day he was at 0% - totally exhausted. His endurance is about 70 and I've changed his role to MR. Why does he seem to have a starting pitcher's recovery time when only pitching 15 innings in relief?? I play in commish mode so I looked at the editor to see if I could change something, but didn't find a logical attribute to alter. Any ideas?

09-13-2007, 08:12 PM	#2
akw4572 Hall Of Famer Join Date: Jul 2002 Location: Kentucky Posts: 2,601	Change his position to relief pitching for the time being, that should solve the problem.

09-13-2007, 09:17 PM	#3
injury log Hall Of Famer Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: Toronto Posts: 9,162	I tested this once, very quickly, and reached the conclusion that recovery time was based on Endurance, not on the position (MR, SP) I assigned the player. To call it a test might be an exaggeration- I let an MR start a game, throw 100 pitches, and watched how he recovered day-by-day, then changed him to SP, let him throw 100 pitches, and again watched how he recovered day-by-day, and the recovery rate was identical. Far from comprehensive, but it gave me the impression that the Set Position might have no effect, and that Endurance guides recovery in-game. If anyone has tested this further, I'd be curious about the results.