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Wednesday, May 19, 2010
Limiting workloads
I’m all in favor of limiting workloads for young pitchers, as Earl Weaver did. I prefer Weaver’s approach, whereby he also works in some spot starts and long relief outings. This is a good article on the Yanks and Mets approach. I have no idea why they talk about IP and not batters faced or pitch counts. An IP is 3 outs. So, by saying they limit it to a 30IP increase in IP, they are saying they limit it to a 90 out increase. Why 90 outs? Why not 30 hits? Or 3 HR? Or 10 walks? You want batters faced, not IP. Preferably, you want pitch counts. And even more preferably, a pitch count by pitch type, and assign a stress level to each pitch type, as well as what the plate count was as well as the base/out situation.
Really, just talk to your pitchers and say “Johan, how much more stress do you think you put on your arm with a runner on 1B, game is tied, Chase Utley batting, and you have a 3-1 count, and you are throwing a curveball?”
Model reality. Talk to the pitchers. That’s the job.
(Glove-slap: Brad.)
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