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So I just looked up the stats from 2004. There were 41 pitchers with at least 200 innings pitched that season; last year there were five.
Pitchers are making too much money so now teams are afraid to push them
 

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From 1995 through 2005, Pedro Martinez pitched at least 186 innings, except for 2001.
Tom Glavine averaged 220 innings per season for his entire career.
Greg Maddux averaged 229 per year.
Mike Mussina averaged 226 per year.

These are men who weighed MAYBE 175 pounds, and for most of his career I'm pretty sure Pedro was 10-15 pounds under that.

Every one of them could have touched the mid-90s if they needed it early in their careers. Probably only Pedro went above that with regularity. But mainly they lived in the mid-to-low 90s.

How is it that all of these guys, who were frail-looking dweebs, managed to have long careers with few injuries? All of them somehow managed to accumulate 50+ complete games.
Maybe it's because they knew how to change speeds and locate.

You're not gonna tell me that some stupid pitch clock is responsible for injuries. Or that innings limits and pitch counts are going to save careers.

Clayton Kershaw can't wipe his ass without injuring something.
Chris Sale, same thing.
Jacob deGrom, another one.

Bartolo Colon was better than league-average at 43 years old.
And he was throwing 88 mph fastballs.

Miss me with the bullshyt.
 

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It feels like people are just trying to find something to blame. Only pitchers that the pitch clock seems to have affected are the fat ones.
 

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The nerds have committed pitching genocide

Told everyone that they needed to throw 96+

That they needed to get maximum spin on every pitch

Then the pitch clock was the death knell. It's only gonna get worse from here.
The pitch clock isn't as bad as the fact that pitchers are being coddled yet STILL getting injured. Whatever they're doing doesn't work.

Analytics departments wanna treat every game like game 7 where teams gotta empty the clip. Never have I seen more team getting the bullpen going in the first inning because the starter gave up 3 runs in the first inning than now.
 
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