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[quote=Le Grande Orange;2597887]Did pitchers really throw on three days' rest all year? (A trip to Retrosheet should confirm or refute the claim.) Were injuries really less common then? (Hard to determine because the data doesn't really exist.)
No, but todays pitchers often go on 5 days rest not 4 so it evens out.
A quick survey (not scientific) of days since last start from 1971 vs the same for 2008 shows lines like:
1971 4 6 4 5 6 4 5 5 4 4 4 4 4 5 4 9 5 5 4 4 6 4 4 4 5 5 4 5 4 4 4 4 4 5 4 5 6 5
2008 5 6 5 6 6 5 5 5 4 5 6 5 6 6 5 5 5 6 8 5 5 6 5 7 5 5 5 5 5 4 6 5
For two premium pitchers of the time. The number of 6 day gaps in the 2008 line adds weight to my theory that good pitchers are held back to face better teams.
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