Sorry, SSB, and WPA, but there were other very credible approaches.
Go back to the Stark article. Not that they are perfect, but the Red Sox run their pitching program pretty closely with Andrews disciples, and in the Stark article they talk about the possibility of skipped starts. Not a cold shut down for a month, which is sort of an straw argument, but just an occasional skipped start. There are folks willing to put their name on that approach in Stark's article as how they would treat their own players. there may be other approaches, such as building in more starts with an extra day's rest when games piled up, that are pretty conventional. I'm not doing research now on what has been written on that.
There's no way there were only two credible choices - burn through his innings and shut him down in early September or pitch him continuously despite medical science.
