83 appearances is quite a lot for a follower though.
I can never get the AI to use pitchers how I want them to, but I would guess this team used a 4 man rotation with a lower pitch count then had Roberts and another SP turned reliever alternate coming in for the 4th/5th inning to pitch two innings. That way any time the team was already ahead they would get the win as the pitcher of record in the fifth, but if the team was trailing the starter would get the loss.
Keep in mind if those historical stats happened many seasons ago then the quality of hitting talent was much, much lower than it is now that every team is stacked with FOTF super cards.
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