I've started noticing that when a pitcher throws a complete game early in the season two things happen.
1. The first is that he had to have a REAL good game in order for his manager to allow hit to go 9 innings.
2. His next game he seems to be overrated and does not do as well.
My feeling is that complete games take much more out of a pitcher then just his number of pitches. There are the additional warm up tosses, another 1 or 2 AB's more fielding and just more wear and tear.
I have not done any real analyses on this yet so I don't have any real numerbs to back up my claim but every time I have bet against a complete game pitcher this year I've won or have been "in the game" with a chance.
Or is this a system? new here sorry - not sure where I can post this yet!
1. The first is that he had to have a REAL good game in order for his manager to allow hit to go 9 innings.
2. His next game he seems to be overrated and does not do as well.
My feeling is that complete games take much more out of a pitcher then just his number of pitches. There are the additional warm up tosses, another 1 or 2 AB's more fielding and just more wear and tear.
I have not done any real analyses on this yet so I don't have any real numerbs to back up my claim but every time I have bet against a complete game pitcher this year I've won or have been "in the game" with a chance.
Or is this a system? new here sorry - not sure where I can post this yet!
