Re: Joe Torre = Dodgers manager
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Well, then I guess a trained monkey must be smarter than most baseball managers, because none of these decisions are hard. I do think it's funny that you use Sandy Koufax as an example of a pitcher who didn't wear a skirt, when he is one of the poster children for not overworking your pitchers, retiring at age 30 due to injury after consecutive 320+ inning seasons.
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True, but if he had the same injury today he would be fine after a year or 2. Not to mention while he is an example of someone who got hurt pitching in a time when medical treatment wasnt as advanced, tons of pitchers had long careers dispite being "overworked"
These guys wear out after 100 pitches (a braindead benchmark to begin with. Its anice round number so people go with it. Some can cant thorw 80 and some can throw 150- atleast go with individualized pitch counts) because they are babied. Theres no reason that 30 years ago pitchers could throw complete games on 3 days rest all the time and now they cant throw 7 IP on 4 days rest.
Amazing Nolan Ryan and Clemens werent done at 25.
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