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Originally Posted by fleury
Question. I think Tampa Bay tried it a few years back, but why doesn't any team start with a reliever for a couple innings, then go to their starter for an additional five or six innings, just to mess with opposing batters' timing? I know a starter gets rewarded with a W only after 5 innings, but knowing that there's many more statistics every team looks into aside from wins, it wouldn't hurt any team statistically to let this happen.
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Teams are starting to do this all the time (Jays included). MLB has actually discussed ways to stop this from happening, like having a modified DH rule where you're only allowed to us the DH when your starting pitcher is in the game and things like that.