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Like It or not: baseball's pitch counts are here to stay: trendy stat forces managers to walk a fine line between a starter's strong performance and protecting an arm.
THE PITCH COUNT IS THE TRENDY new baseball statistic. TV announcers talk about it constantly, saying things such as, "It's the fourth inning and he's already thrown 75 pitches." Newspapers carry individual hurlers' pitch counts in their box scores.
Baseball front offices and managers made the statistic important. Trying to prolong the health and effectiveness of their highly paid pitchers, all teams restrict starting hurlers to about 100 pitches. That usually gets them to the sixth or seventh inning.
The pitch count has been an important issue for many clubs in recent years. It's monitored more closely when pitchers are returning from injury or in the ...
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