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Originally Posted by cosmo20002
If a relief pitcher can't do one inning 2 or 3 times a week, what is the point of even having them on the roster?
Guys don't get injure their arms by pitching 2-3 innings a week...unless there is some other underlying matter. Their daily throwing routines are more strenuous than pitching 1 inning.
I'm pretty ambivalent about Matheny in general, but I don't see how you can call this "overuse." You can't have a bullpen full of guys who can only pitch 1 inning a week.
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I’d agree with you if 3 of our bullpen arms weren’t all in the
Top 5 in appearances in the majors when Flanny made those tweets (July 5th). That was a clear message from the locker room and there was no reason why Matheny should have been leaning so hard on Barlow, Brentz and Holland in a season that was already well lost by that time.