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Originally Posted by Cynical
Wow, that's a lot of "almost starters" in the bullpen. Looking at Astros rosters, the 2019 opening day roster had a 7 man bullpen, with two "almost starters" (Josh James and Framber Valdez) and five pure relievers (Osuna, Pressley, Rondon, Harris, Devenski). In 2018, with an 8 man bullpen, it was similar; two almost starters (Peacock and McHugh) and six pure relievers (Giles, Devenski, Harris, Smith, Rondon, and Sipp).
I use the Astros as my example because they're the team I'm familiar with, but I assume most MLB teams are similar.
I looked up some stats, and found that top "pure relievers" tend to pitch in 50-70 games a year. That's roughly 1-in-3, maybe a bit more some seasons or less in others. In OotP, that would put most of them in high "yellow" status a lot of the time, probably around 70% rested based on what I've seen.
EDIT: Also, you mention staying a starter down/reliever up when a starter gets injured until the injured starter is due up next. Is there any easy way to tell the AAA team "skip this guy's next start so he's ready to slot into position on the major league club's rotation" without managing the AAA games yourself?
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This sim is in 1989 - so starters are pitching a lot more innings. But, I have a smaller bullpen. I also do similar with modern day sims.
My relievers are on track for 67, 54, 52 and 48 games.
It takes a bit of planning to make sure you're not bringing up a pitcher who just threw 100 pitches in the minors. In the player game strategy you can Bench a player for an indicated number of days. So, if I know in advance I'm going to need a reliever then I bench them. Otherwise, I just pick from whoever is the most rested.
My 40 player roster has a lot of pitchers on it.