The general rule of thumb is take your age and multiply by 10. That's how many innings you can pitch a year. It becomes kind of moot after age 23. But until then, it works pretty well.
In regards to whatever nameless starter that was going today, why bother saving his arm? Does that guy really feature that heavily in your future plans? If he isn't pencilled in to be the #2 starter behind Roy, I'm on the DL once or twice every year, Halliday in 2009 then use him up.
Isn't like throwing an extra 30 pitches (or how ever many it would have taken him to give up a hit) would be compared to Dusty's handling of Woods and Prior. This is some nameless, futureless, cannon fodder pitcher who had the chance to spark the team and give the suffering fans a warm fuzzy.
Good news though, now we get to see years and years of dude dominating the opposition. That's why they saved his arm after all. Right?
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