I tried the 4-man for a couple of seasons, never worked for me even with starters with high endurance and a good enough bullpen at the time. Only case I try to avoid since I call it the Beerer Effect, relievers with 6 pitches, never like the idea of it, way too many pitches for my liking.ĥ-man or 4-man rotations, I side with the 5-man theory, since I agree with realmofotalk that it causes more losses than wins with the weak link pitcher, I find very risky to go with.
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It’s not really a factor for me since I had success with all numbers (2 to 6?). What about number of pitches? Anyone find a factor in anything or is it there to look pretty? I usually try to get 8 or above, I don't like 7 at all but if I have a pitcher with the ratings I'll use him. On Endurance I avoid starters with 6 they don't deserve to be in a rotation unless your bullpen is lights out from top to bottom, because they will need to eat 3-4 innings per start. Not even Fishercat's deities Bill Belichick and Scott Pioli could've found a quick fix to that. Likewise, 2 slumping starters cost you 2 out of 5 games instead of half of your games, and so on.īut of course, if one's rotation resembles something like Chad Gaudin, Buddy Arnold, Freddy Almeda, Louis Wagner, and Richard Tucker, then it's hopeless. By going with a 5-man rotation instead of a 4-man, you minimize losses with whichever starting pitcher is slumping so that he loses a 1/5 of your games instead of 1/4 of your games. While a 4-man rotation is ideal and necessary if you don't have a competent 5th option (as in Anaheim's case with Adam Loewen), if I have that 5th starter I'm putting him in the rotation. I've resigned myself to the theory that at least one of your starting pitchers will be the weak link at a given point of the season, or worse, throughout the season. I could be nuts with my following comment on deciding between 4-man or 5-man rotation, but since any quality response is encouraged, I don't care. It doesn’t matter all that much, as long he takes the ball and doesn’t tire the other guys out with his suckitide. Frankly, I prefer endurance over quality. Your 6th starter or some otherwise most useful pitcher will get 50+ innings at the bottom of the pen, soaking up innings in lost causes and blowouts. Step 10: Get a Rubber-Armed Warm Body to do the Rest You should usually expect something on the order of 100-150 innings here. That way, he gets major league innings while keeping the good relievers from getting tired in low-leverage junk. To account for injury or just someone sucking, I keep my presumable 5th starter doing mop-up work in the bullpen. Step 9: The Best Place for Your 5th Starter is in the Bullpen I align these pitchers to get the most out of them, like so:Ģ) Innings Sponge Robert "Used to be a Prospect" Lingenfelterġ) #3 Reliever Orestes "Unexplicably Good" SantiagoĤ) Innings Sponge Robert "Used to be a Prospect" Lingenfelter I believe that the best pitchers should get the most innings, almost regardless of tightly defined roles.
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Your top three relievers should take 300 innings of that. With 1000 innings taken by your starters, the pen has to soak up the other 500. In a season that lasts just under 1500 innings, that means you get almost 2/3 of every game from your rotation.
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Where a starter in a 5-man can pitch up to 210 innings in a full healthy season, a starter in the 4-man will be in up to 250 frames (sometimes more). What do they have in common then? They all eat innings. None of them have great peripherals, but all manage to do something well enough to not get shelled all of the time. William Moye, Robert Youngs, and Carlo Rodriguez don’t exactly make for 4 Aces. Michael Countryman happens to be fantastic, but take a good look at the other three who take the ball. Hell, I only have one who's above average (very above average). I don’t expect a team to have four great pitchers. Low stuff means fewer Ks and many more hits. Find your league’s minimum stuff rating, and don’t go below it.
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KEY NOTE: A pitcher is probably not viable with a stuff of under 6 in Mission’s league. A 6 endurance starter may have value in a full 5-man rotation. In my rotation, a starter with less than 7 endurance has no place. Better than this equals a better pitcher, obviously. The average pitcher will give up something along the lines of 7 hits, 6 strikeouts, 3 walks, and 1 homerun per 9 innings. A pitcher’s key numbers are his strikeouts, walks, homeruns, and hits allowed. OOTP, like real life, operates on peripheral statistics. Step 1: Know What a Good Pitcher Looks Like How the hell do I win as many games as I do with less talent than most? Simple.