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Actually IIRC it was the Dodgers who were the first team to move from a 4 1/2 man rotation to a 5-man. And the last team I can remember moving away from the 4-man was another very good one: the early 80s Baltimore Orioles. As is usually the case, strategies like these are first adopted by a very good and very innovative team and then copied by everyone else in the hopes that it's akin to the Holy Grail of winning baseball games. See also: Tony LaRussa's A's in the late 80s and the complete compartmentalization of bullpens soon thereafter, platooning apparently happening after George Stallings led the Miracle Braves to a World Championship in 1914 utilizing the trick, and nobody trying to swing for the fences on every pitch until one George Herman Ruth led the Yankees up from mediocrity doing so.
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