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05-30-2014, 04:01 AM | #1 |
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Pitchers changes roles to much during season
I have had a few conversations on this topic in the past and I have noticed this a few times but in my league I see alot of SP being moved in and out of the Closers role/bullpen and closers become SP this is the latest incident.
He had 31 saves at the All-star break 1.68 era 1 BS (AI didn't put him on all-star team i had to) Yes i can under stand that maybe he would be better in rotation but not a No-hitter 2 starts later and who would take such a good closer and change him. The 2nd picture is from a different version (sorry) but the same type of issue he has been in the pen and then throws 122 pitches, I under stand this can happen but seeing pitchers go from SP to being the closer makes no sense during the season on 6 different teams some times, or Closer to SP.
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05-30-2014, 04:54 AM | #2 |
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I haven't seen that before, I have seen many times that pitchers will go from being starters to relievers a lot....but not one from starter to closer to starter again. Like an OOTP version of what happened with Joba Chamberlain for instance or Neftali Feliz. It is common for them to bounce from starter to reliever a lot though, but not starter to closer and back.
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05-30-2014, 09:36 AM | #3 |
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I don't think this ever happens now because every role on the pitching staff is now a specialist role, but I am just finishing up a 1972 season replay using real lineups and was surprised to see how much this did happen historically, at least in 1972. Chuck Seelbach, Mike Caldwell, and a few others alternated between closer and starter (I'm not talking about what the game did but the actual historical records). This was the first year that Rollie Fingers did not get a start and it was not unusual for him to start one game and close the next in 1970 and 1971. Even though many pitchers were beginning to put up decent save numbers, the role was not yet fully defined as an exclusive specialist who never starts, although Fingers and Sparky Lyle were already in that role by 1972.
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