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Tuesday, September 07, 2010
I agree
Rob Neyer:
The dirty little secret about relief pitching is that there are many hundreds of pitchers in professional baseball, right now, who could be excellent relievers in the major leagues right now. The great majority of them are starters.
If teams had 30-man rosters, everybody would have 15- or 16-man pitching staffs, and starting pitchers as we know them would become mostly extinct. Instead, we might see the “starter” go two innings and be followed in quick succession by four or five “relievers,” with everyone throwing mid-90s fastballs and impossible breaking stuff.