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Originally Posted by daves
Were there a lot more complete games and not as many relief pitchers in the 70's? When I ran a 1977 league my relievers did not seem fully utilized as much as they are now a days.
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Yes there were a lot more complete games in the 70's. Starting pitchers pitched deeper into games and weren't held to a pitch count.
The closer even pitched more innings.
If you go to baseballreference.com you can see how many more IP starters had compared to today, also if you look at the box scores you will see many games completed in 2.5 hours or less since there were fewer pitching changes.
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