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[bluestreak]

We should just have all our starters pitch 7+ innings. Makes the bullpen easier to manage

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/12/sports/baseball/cardinals-nationals-anibal-sanchez.html

We may never again see a series like the 2005 A.L.C.S., when the Chicago White Sox got four complete games and used their bullpen for only two outs in a five-game series en route to a World Series title. But on consecutive days in these playoffs, Walker Buehler threw a career-high 117 pitches for the Los Angeles Dodgers, Gerrit Cole worked eight innings for the Astros and Sanchez nearly threw a no-hitter.
Sanchez’s game was already the ninth this postseason in which a starter had lasted at least seven innings. That matched the total for the entire 2018 postseason.

We may never again see a series like the 2005 A.L.C.S., when the Chicago White Sox got four complete games and used their bullpen for only two outs in a five-game series en route to a World Series title. But on consecutive days in these playoffs, Walker Buehler threw a career-high 117 pitches for the Los Angeles Dodgers, Gerrit Cole worked eight innings for the Astros and Sanchez nearly threw a no-hitter.
Sanchez’s game was already the ninth this postseason in which a starter had lasted at least seven innings. That matched the total for the entire 2018 postseason.