Shawn Chacon relinquishes 8 shutout innings to the hands of Jose Valverde.
Valverde promptly gives up a homer to Chris Snelling. That's right, Chris Snelling.
He then hits Utley, who by the way got hit three times the other day at Shea.
A two-run homer to Pat Burrell blew the save. An RBI double by Feliz became the 4th run Valverde gave up in only a third of an inning. Did Arizona know something we didn't?
This guy is just awful right about now. His job is certainly in danger, despite what reports may say.
Tuesday, April 15, 2008
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I bet all of the old time pitchers are just shaking their heads over how starters can be in complete control through 7 or 8 innings only to watch it go up in smoke when the "closer" comes in to finish the game because, well that is the way things are done now.
Chacon threw 109 pitches before being victimized by the "closer" in the 9th. I wish some manager out there would stop this insanity keep his starter in the game UNLESS HE NEEDS RELIEF. I'm sorry but this pitch count stuff is garbage. He could have easily finished this game.
Yea, lets just let every pitcher throw 4000 pitches in a season. Thats the answer.
OK smart guy. Are you saying that 109 pitches is excessive through 8 innings? It is your mentality that is losing games and potentially costing teams a post season birth.
Ever heard of Bill James? Here is an excerpt from a piece from the Hardball Times a few years ago:
There's been some very interesting writing recently regarding the issue of pitch counts and "safe" workloads for pitchers. In The Neyer/James Guide to Pitchers, published this spring, Bill James presents an article called "Abuse and Durability" (pp. 449-463) that reviews several studies he has performed, and essentially asserts that the nearly universal adoption of strict pitch count limits in professional baseball over the past 15 or so years has been a bad idea.
Here is the link. I think we could all use a good lesson.
http://www.hardballtimes.com/main/article/what-pitch-counts-hath-wrought/
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