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Wednesday, October 03, 2007

All you need is 4 or 5 pitchers

By Tangotiger, 11:33 AM

Derek Zumsteg says:

In this playoff format, though, it doesn’t matter: they can ride those two starters, those two relievers all series long, because with all the rest days they don’t need a deep staff.

I was thinking the same thing, that with off-days galore, this is what’s going to happen. (Well, not exactly that, but at least fewer pitchers than in the recent past.) We’ll know at the end of the series, but we’ll need a basis for comparison. So, until then, here’s what has happened since 1969:

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All you need is 4 or 5 pitchers

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