Baseball Question

[DougOzzzz]

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Plus, what I find funny is how people have this misconception that 120 pitches is "20% more than typical", where 100 is "typical". This simply isn't true.

On game day, an MLB pitcher will throw probably at least 20-30 long-tosses in the OF, THEN throw about 40 full-effort pitches in the bullpen before gametime.

This means that if a pitcher throws 100 pitches during the game, he's really thrown about 160 that night. So, throwing 120 in the game is like 180 for the night.

180-160 = 20
20/160 = 12.5%

So in reality, what is perceived as 20% overtime, is really just 12.5%.


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Maybe they only throw 12.5% more pitches - but pitches "160 to 180" or whatever are a lot more stressful on a pitcher's arm than pitches 0-20. In reality, the difference between 100 and 120 pitches is probably much more than 20%.