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Can someone find stats on how often Counsell pulls starters in the 6th?

Can someone find stats on how often Counsell pulls starters in the 6th?

Even with the bullpen, this is what he has to do with the starting pitchers he currently has. They're all 4th/5th starters. If you get 5 good innings from them, you take it and hope the bullpen can hold the lead.

If Hoyer went out of his comfort zone and traded for Skubal (obviously not happening) or Ryan (almost as obviously not happening), Counsell would let them go 7+ innings every time. But he has the pitchers he has, so he has to manage this way.

The MLB leader (qualified) in average innings per start is Yamamoto at 6.55 per start.

Only about 10 SP average even 6 innings per start.

Nobody is going to be pitching 7+ innings on a regular basis. Nobody is doing that in MLB these days. Nothing to do with quality of anybody’s bullpen.   

Yeah, that was not good baseball.

We are suddenly challenge-stupid…

Not sure how they won, not sure they deserved to, but they somehow did.

I think.

Those were two crazy non-challenges.  Seiya didn't take one on bases-loaded 2-0 pitch (I think), that was decidedly inside.  Fortunately instead of walking he got a 2-run hit, the extra run won the game.  Kelly not challenging on a force-in-a-run walk, when it actually was a strike, that was kinda crazy too.  Oh well.  Wicks! 

Heh heh, Jeff has long noted that lots of games are won by bad players.  Bryce and Wicks the stars of the game?