This is gold.Reminds me of my job. A few years back they got these portable computers and called them 'computers on wheels', or COW's for short. So inevitably the fat, lazy staff members who never put a fork down in their life got offended so the name was changed to WOW's (workstation on wheels).
Baseball is going to evolve into having a team of relief pitchers who only pitch three innings an outing, just wait for it.Hearing Madison Bumgarner is not a fan of the 'opener' strategy that more MLB teams may apply in 2019. While he doesn't need it a lot of starters could use it and I personally love this strategy from an advanced analytics point of view.
I've never really dug into the strategy, what's the short reasoning for it?Hearing Madison Bumgarner is not a fan of the 'opener' strategy that more MLB teams may apply in 2019. While he doesn't need it a lot of starters could use it and I personally love this strategy from an advanced analytics point of view.
Baseball is going to evolve into having a team of relief pitchers who only pitch three innings an outing, just wait for it.
Lester- 3 innings to start
Darvish comes in the next three
Then Hendricks pitches the final three
They have been playing baseball wrong the entire time.
I never understood the push back from non players on The Opener and non traditional bullpen usage.
I understand completely from a starting pitcher's view. They want the ball as many times and as much as possible. Fans, should want any strategy that's going to help their team win.
The point is, there hasn't been anywhere close to a big enough sample to prove if the strategy is more successful than traditional pitcher use. Is it a gimmick that doesn't really impact much like the pitcher batting 8th, or is it something that will be widely adopted and improve performance?Yeah, it's nothing like running quarterbacks.
I don't see why is either has to be a gimmick or widely adopted. It's a way to build your team. It's like having a play set in football or system in hockey. A team that has slow skaters isn't going to play a speed based system; a team with a bad QB and 2 great RBs aren't going to air it out; a team with a shaky and shallow rotation is going to gravitate to a way to deploying them that's going to put them in position to get the most out of their personal.
If it's not widely adopted, it doesn't mean it's a gimmick or not viable. The inverse also holds true, if everyone adopts it, it doesn't mean it's the best way to go. Build your team and play to its strengths.
the opener is essentially allowing the starter to go deeper, he just comes in the game first.
opener gets 123
starter gets 456/789/123/456/789/123
essentially, you're allowing your starter to only see 123 twice and the second time possibly with someone backing him. asking him to get 18 outs that way instead of the straight up way is just skinning the cat a different way though since unless he's pitching a perfect game, he's not getting you through six innings without seeing the top of the order at least twice.
i think it's fine if you want to bullpen a game because a guy got hurt or had a family emergency. it gets kind of tiring looking at it as a strategy and having 13 man staffs and there never seeming to be enough pitchers.
that's all they're doing now.
take a look at some of these benches across the league. you have a backup catcher, an infielder who can play short and a fourth outfielder. maybe your platoon 1b/dh/lf. that leaves you with a 12 man staff. without the fourth outfielder, say you roll him up into your 1b/dh, that's a 13 man staff.
that's how you get guys coming in the game in the fourth inning.
i'm against changing the strategy of baseball when it limits the manager wrt tactics (ie the pitcher has to face a minimum number of hitters) but the parade of relief pitchers isn't becoming on baseball and only makes the game longer.
i don't know how you stop it either without drastic rule changes. i like guys being loogy or roogy but having a pen of 8 guys for a game in may just seems like overkill.
Because teams usually put their best hitters 1-5. The strategy is send a good reliever out to go through those guys so that the starter (often a lower end one you don't trust as much) will face the top of the order 1 fewer time.I've never really dug into the strategy, what's the short reasoning for it?
I was a fan of the concept with the A's; just not a fan of who they chose to use (Liam Hendriks)I never understood the push back from non players on The Opener and non traditional bullpen usage.
I understand completely from a starting pitcher's view. They want the ball as many ties and as much as possible. Fans, should want any strategy that's going to help their team win.
it's a business at the end of the day.
signing one pitcher for 20+ million or 4 pitchers for 4+ million each is the wave of the future.