NOLAN RYAN, BILL JAMES AGREE TODAY'S PITCH COUNTS ARE RIDICULOUS

Interesting that the day after this blog wrote about the pitch count alienating pitchers, that none other than the original stats guru, Bill James, and Kansas City Star writer Joe Posnanski have an article published on SI today, discrediting these pitch counts, and showing that Nolan Ryan is spearheading the drive behind it. So now where are all those naysayers that claimed we wrote a reckless blog on pitch counts. Obviously they are the ones who agree with babying today's pitchers, and participating in shortening their careers and actually ruining the game of baseball.

We have attached the article here for all to read. Not our words, but those of Bill James, an original stats guru, as well as currently a Boston Red Sox senior advisor. To all those pitch count apologists, try actually reading the article from those inside the game, an stop your tree hugging mannerisms to keep baseball churning in its current mediocre stage. It needs to go back to the days when pitchers throw 7-9 innings, not this 100 pitches and then get pulled.

Watching a pitcher stare at the scoreboard where the pitch count is posted during the game, how can you honestly say that the pitcher can't see his count and in turn may attempt to overthrow pitches in order not to get pulled, or in order to get to that 5 inning marker so he gets a win, and in turn possibly injure himself? You can't guarantee that, but you falsely guarantee that a 100 pitch count will make sure they don't get injured.

Those who advocate the 100 pitch count, always name Wood, Prior, the Bird, but they never like to name the hundreds of pitchers who threw shutouts, pitched complete games for years, and never got injured. Baseball had a few injuries along the way for sure, but in today's babying of the players, they have clearly had far more injuries than they ever had when pitchers threw complete games and pitched deep into games. Their arms simply didn't fall off as the Joe Maddon's of the world would have you believe.

This blog has placed several stat sheets showing the blown games due to ineffective managing, as well as showing the pattern of losses by taking out pitchers early, and this just covers the Rays and Joe Maddon. All you have to do is imply look around the league and compare notes. Winning teams don't use this constant pitch count scam, they embrace good quality starting pitching, not yanking a guy who isn't tired because of a pitch count, and letting bullpens blow the wins.

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