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Originally Posted by GreenLantern2814
I’ve thought for a while that pitchers could stand to dial it back a bit. Like, if you can throw 96-97, you can probably also throw 92, 93 and locate it better, and develop good secondary pitches that make your fastball look quicker.
It’s so strange - nobody can stay healthy, but nobody goes more than 5 innings anymore, and everyone throws absurdly hard. Maybe something related to that - nobodies used to go seven strong, now you’re lucky if your staff Ace does it more than once a year, if that.
They’ll take guys out in the middle of a no-hitter. The #### is that. If you start a game and don’t give up any hits, you get to stay in the game until you do. That’s just good sports.
Less is more.
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I am sure throwing hard is part of it, but baseball players are creatures of habit. They're used to playing almost every day for 6 months, or pitching every 5.2 days for 6 months or every 2.5 if you're a reliever. Then we had last year which included a ramp up and a stop, a ramp up and then a short season.
Now they are having to go back to their normal and their bodies are reacting to the lost time last year.