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Old Fri Jan 06, 2017, 08:35am
bob jenkins bob jenkins is offline
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Originally Posted by CT1 View Post
If the purpose of a pitch count is to protect young arms from overuse, why would you add 4 pitches that aren't thrown to the count?
It's a compromise to allow the no-pitch walk (without it, the offense would sometimes swing at a couple of the pitches to drive the pitch count higher than 4).
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