Author Topic: Verducci: Bullpen management is broken and leads to injuries  (Read 600 times)

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Offline JCA-CrystalCity

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Verducci concentrates mostly on the injury impact, but Dave Cameron, who I'm glad I can continue to quote too much, expanded more on just how modern bullpen use is not any more effective and may be less effective at run prevention than the less specialized bullpens of the 70s and 80s.  Saber geeks have talked about the relief ace concept.  Maddon uses it a bit, and it will be interesting to watch Robin Ventura with the ChiSox stay away from using his best reliever (Thornton :az: )as closer.  here is the Cameron piece:
http://www.fangraphs.com/blogs/index.php/are-relievers-benefiting-from-pitching-less/