Please tell me we aren’t going to get on the case of a pitcher for being upset that his Lily livered manager deprived him of a chance at history. Please don’t tell me that
Funny how one of the points of analytics is to treat every player differently. Yet the magic number of 100 pitches is the bewitching number for all pitches.
So when kershaw was going to perfect game us and was pulled, it was because it was too early in the season to load up that many pitches. Now, it’s too late in the season even though we aren’t making the playoffs?
Gerrit Cole, a much better pitcher than Joe Ryan, on a team headed to the playoffs, was allowed to throw 120 pitches last week against the twins. Ryan is at 100 right now. I will absolutely riot if Ryan isn’t given the chance to finish this