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Post by oldracer on Jan 15, 2013 9:03:04 GMT 10
Came across a huge anomoly in the safety net we have instituted for our pitchers via pitch counts yesterday. National Ch'ships at Geelong, starting pitcher for ACT threw 64 pitches in the first dig for 1 out!!!!!!!! so that's plus warm up but my point is that there is no way that lad should have been allowed to throw that many on the trot...he had thrown 50 before anyone decided to move in the bullpen!!!!!!!!!!! I seem to rememeber a competition somewhere that had an inning pitch count of 35?? My point being we need to institute something that makes it mandatory that managers have to relieve a pitcher at a certain point, I will say I'm not sure what the ACT brains trust were doing while the kid was struggling so much...... www.essendonbaseball.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/mad_smiley.gif{/img}
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Post by oldmanriver on Jan 15, 2013 9:29:33 GMT 10
racer, it is not really an anomoly, just poor management. That poor kid has now had his week snuffed out by one long innings. I believe that many pitches becomes a major and finishes him for three or four days(I might wrong). I do believe that you maybe over reacting a little by suggesting more rules to cover pitch counts or Managers ignorance.. All this instance has done is show up the ignorance of the ACT Manager/Management.
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oj
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Post by oj on Jan 15, 2013 14:02:53 GMT 10
The pitch count of 35 in an inning is in Minor League Baseball, more so to get pitcher's throwing strikes then anything else. You would have thought the alarm bells would have been going off in the coaches heads well before it came anywhere close to 64 and to let it get to that is a bit of poor form.
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