You still need quality starting pitchers to win the World Series

Oct 11 2018 by Fish Stripes

 

#Bullpenning ain’t it, Chief

Unorthodox pitcher usage was taken to a new extreme during the 2018 MLB season.

Most famously, the Tampa Bay Rays went all in on the concept of The Opener. Someone smarter than me logged onto the ol’ Baseball Reference dot com and found out that in every year since 2014, the inning that yielded the most runs was the first inning. Whereas the closer, the save, and preserving a pitcher for the ninth had all gone by the wayside, it now became completely...

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