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Originally Posted by Gozer
I'm not suggesting reality, I'm referring to perception.
Example: Gibbons declares at the start of the '08 season we'd have a four man rotation. On Halladay's second start he tears his *arm-jargon* and is finished for the year / career?.
Fans would be calling for him to be fired on the spot, and I'd be one of them.
Fans would drive from Saskatchwan to drop feces on his lawn.
The shortened rotation may have nothing to do with it, but the organization would be skewered. No one will put their arse on the line like that.
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Exactly. With so many avenues for people to second guess decisions it will be truly ground-breaking to see someone put their ass on the line like that. Baseball is far too set it's ways (most of which have been proven wrong) for there to be much change. I mean, stats like OBP, SLG, and OPS have without a shadow of a doubt been proven to be better predictors of success than batting average and RBI (for 20+ years too) and we still see the same AVG HR RBI statline when the batter comes to the plate. There might be no legitimate reason for a 5 man rotation, but that doesn't really matter in baseball.