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Originally Posted by JayP
I was just going to suggest it. I read an article by Baseball Prospectus a year or two ago that analyzed the 4-man rotation vs. the 5-man rotation and they couldn't come up with a single reason not to go with the 4-man. It doesn't seem to have any effect on fatigue late in the season or injury troubles. Injury troubles tend to occur from running a guy out there for 120+ pitches consistently and not pitching 100 pitch games every 4 days.
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Teams do this in the playoffs all the time, i'd love to see the jays try it out. As long as you have someone like litch or whoever who can give you the odd maintenance start once or twice a month there really shouldn't be a huge issue.
Plus you get to pitch your best pitchers way more often and in the jays case this could be huge.