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  1. User Name
    The Texas Rangers had 104 starts where their SP went between 100-119 pitches, and three where they went 120 +. The Boston Red Sox had 78 starts where their SP went between 100-119 pitches, and five where they went 120+ pitches. Keep in mind this is without Dice-K Matsuzaka or Clay Bucholz pitching the whole season, both of whom combined for 39 100-119 pitches starts last year. The 2010 Sox had 110 starts of 100-119 pitches by their starters by the way. Essentially, this is, as stated before, mostly rhetoric. Francona was bad at managing a pitching staff, that is a certainty, but his sin was usually taking starters out too late (after they've been hammered) than too early.
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    It also depends on the manager. I'll go out on a limb and say that if Jimmy Leyland was the manager and Justin Verlander was pitching, he would have finished that game. Ryan can say whatever he wants, but the game is played on the field and Washington has a relatively quick hook.
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    That has absolutely nothing to do with the pitch count issues. If a pitcher can do more with less pitches, then great. There's also the fact that statistically, the Texas rotation was far superior to the Red Sox rotation, yet their starters had pretty much the same amount of pitches per start. Even if you use just the main starting fives (No spot-starters) you end up with 100 pitches/start for Texas starters, and 97 pitches per start for Boston starters.
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    And the rhetoric of the "Nolan Ryan mindset" continues. The numbers state otherwise. Texas was right about league average in pitches per start. Their IP/GS (Innings pitched per games started) was exactly the same as the league average: 6.1
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    I wonder, after the WS is over, if Sox fans rooting for the losing team are going to blame Theo Epstein for the loss.
  6. User Name
    Back on topic: Over/under on the amount of strikes Pujols sees tonight. I'm going with "2" just to be generous.
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    This is quite interesting.
  8. User Name
    But does this mean you're going to follow your own "advise" and "atop" "spewing" your nonsense posts?
  9. User Name
    You're kind of an ******* aren't you?
  10. User Name
    Kids these days......
  11. User Name
    What?
  12. User Name
    The over-reaction over Cherington's comment is getting a little ridiculous.
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    It's not only about the teams that may want to sign Pujols but the teams he may want to go to. I'd cross out the Nationals and Mets from that list because of that.
  14. User Name
    You're kind of an ******* aren't you?
  15. User Name
    And pay enough money to negate any revenue they make to small market teams? You kinda don't know how finances work i assume.
  16. User Name
    Exactly. Right around the Cubs GM was fired.
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    Don't ask me. The pitch counts are what they are. The way i see it, managers usually know what the boundary for effectiveness is for a pitcher on any given night and play it conservatively both to win games and to keep the pitchers healthy. I'm going to go ahead and say that the pitching coaches and managers of MLB teams know better than us how to handle a pitching staff. You're welcome to disagree if you so desire, but we're running in circles here.
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    I don't buy that he would have left had the team played like the powerhouse they were expected to be. But that's just me. He's been tied to the Cubs since their GM was fired, but the stories (which are usually conjecture) don't mean that there were talks about it until the Sox collapsed.
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    Baseball Reference has a detailed statistic for pitch average per start for starting pitchers. Here's the average number of pitches per starts for the Rangers rotation: Dave Bush: 72 Scott Feldman: 93 CJ Wilson: 106 Matt Harrison: 100 Colby Lewis: 100 Alexi Ogando: 93 Derek Holland: 100 Rangers pitch/start average: 99. League pitch/start average: 98. Then Ryan is flat out lying. They're right around the league average in pitches per start for pitches. Again, teams are looking out for their investment. I'm not saying they're right, i'm just pointing out how it is. And it's unlikely that it will change.
  20. User Name
    Let me ask you this. Had the collapse not happened, do you think Francona and Epstein would have left?
  21. User Name
    And although he didn't display the power people expected, it was still the right move.
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    It really doesn't matter what you and i think. Teams will do their best to protect what matters most to them: Money. And if that means a hard pitch count, then a hard pitch count they will have. No use complaining about it.
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    If one of the large market teams had an opening, then yes.
  24. User Name
    This is kinda ridiculous. No offense.
  25. User Name
    Young was soft, that don't fly in Boston.
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