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Originally Posted by Marshall Bennett
Pitch count prevents a few token accomplishments. Now days if even the best throw 2 shutouts he may at seasons end lead the league or tied with maybe 5 others. Even complete games are a rarity. When a team pays a pitcher 15-20 million a year, they could care less about those two stats. 200 innings is considered above average. If a pitcher can give a team 200 innings for 2 or 3 seasons consecutively, he'll get a huge contract anywhere regardless of his other stats. Those days of 300+ innings and 30+ complete games are long gone for good. Gibson and Jenkins both did it several times each...along with dozens more in that era.
Records that are soundly safe for both career and seasons include : shutouts, complete games, innings pitched, victories, losses, strikeouts, bases on balls, and a few others I can't throw in right away. Career no-hitters perhaps.
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Pitch count is an excellent point.
At a glance, noticed that pitch-count and positioning-of-fielders are both exercised 'willy-nilly'. The basis for both tactics is sound, but we are seeing a cookie cutter heuristics-based approach.
In attempt to be 'smart', and game-the-system, much of these decisions have instead become the rule-bound rather than rule exploitative.
