Zagi-CRO
04-03-2007, 03:36 AM
Basically, an “innings eater” is a pitcher that pitches more than 200 innings in a season. He equates the hoarding of these pitchers to a championship caliber season.
“How important is it to collect inning-eaters? Just ask the team that won the last World Series. The White Sox were the only team in baseball to have four starters top 200 innings. .
Over the last seven seasons, 17 teams have had at least three starters who pitched 200 innings. Twelve /12/ of those teams made the playoffs. None had a losing record. And they averaged 92 wins apiece.”
In my experience and observations on baseball, I’ve noticed three reasons that pitchers accumulate enough innings to go over the magical 200 IP line.
One, they are simply a good pitcher. It’s in the teams best interests to have that player pitch as much as they are able.
Two, the team that the pitcher in question is on is horrible. The team has no choice but to trot out whatever arm will work.
Three, they are named Barry Zito He has what’s referred to as a “rubber arm”. He just throws until the game is over. He has had good seasons, he’s had bad ones. It doesn’t matter, he’ll go out there until the game is over or his manager loses patience, whichever comes first.
Am I right?
“How important is it to collect inning-eaters? Just ask the team that won the last World Series. The White Sox were the only team in baseball to have four starters top 200 innings. .
Over the last seven seasons, 17 teams have had at least three starters who pitched 200 innings. Twelve /12/ of those teams made the playoffs. None had a losing record. And they averaged 92 wins apiece.”
In my experience and observations on baseball, I’ve noticed three reasons that pitchers accumulate enough innings to go over the magical 200 IP line.
One, they are simply a good pitcher. It’s in the teams best interests to have that player pitch as much as they are able.
Two, the team that the pitcher in question is on is horrible. The team has no choice but to trot out whatever arm will work.
Three, they are named Barry Zito He has what’s referred to as a “rubber arm”. He just throws until the game is over. He has had good seasons, he’s had bad ones. It doesn’t matter, he’ll go out there until the game is over or his manager loses patience, whichever comes first.
Am I right?