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"SNIP from PZ's post"
"2. I don't think pitching changes (during the inning) delay games that much. Most games only have one or two, and it's not worth changing the rules to change this. What would you do, prohibit manager visits? Limit warmup tosses even further? I don't think these solutions would work."
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Pat,
I checked the box scores from yesterdays game published in the Boston Globe. There were ten box scores published.
A total of 76 pitchers were used in those games. That is an average of 7.6 pitchers each game. Take out the two starters and you have an average of 5.6 changes a game.
I did not take into account the between inning and during an inning count but they still have that long walk in from the bullpen.
Anyway, I think it is a lot more than the one or two you mentioned. Also, why does a pitcher who has just finished warming up need eight warm up pitches after he has just completed forty or fifty in the bullpen?
In this area the HS pitchers are only allowed five after the first inning except for a relief pitcher when he first comes in?
They should give him two or three. But if they did that, they would have lost some commercials yesterday. Go figure. G.
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