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Originally Posted by spark240
Shouldn't it be possible to schedule the games far enough apart to allow one primary starting pitcher to pitch the great majority of his team's innings?
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If you have a schedule with just three games per week (which is accurate for that time period), you can have just two starting pitchers and they will be getting three or four days of rest between every start every time.
The low number of games played per week is why the total number of games played in the season was low even though the calendar length of the season was long. In 1878, for example, the NL took 151 days to play a 60 game season.