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Originally Posted by bizaro86
Fair point. I was also looking at from the point of view that you're showing trust in him letting him face Judge et al.
And either way he'd be 2 innings over 2
Also 2 on Tuesday has him available Thursday whereas 1 Tuesday/1 Wednesday he wouldn't be. It sort of depends how today goes...
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It is impossible to predict when you will have leads or be in close games and when you won't. 5 games until the next off day so in either case you might have him 3 more times. But this way you open up two chances vs the lesser team in the Yankees to use him while potentially keeping 2 days vs Tampa if needed. Whereas if you burn today you only get Thursday vs the Yankees with Cole going, and than two days in Tampa. I would hope that this is all communicated to him.
They probably have ChatGPT writing code to figure out all the scenarios and which days have higher probability to use certain pitchers.