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Originally Posted by uruguru
ok, thanks. I just assumed that during a rain delay the pitcher would be periodically soft-tossing somewhere to prevent that. But if that's not a thing, then I get it.
I grew up watching professional baseball under a roof.
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Well even if they were doing that, which they very well might sometimes be doing somewhere in the bowels of the stadium, you'd think they'd lose some stamina from doing it, right?
I don't know. I wish we had a trainer or a doctor amongst us who could give us more insight into this. Do we?
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Originally Posted by Matt Arnold
Not every "long" delay will fatigue the current pitcher. Maybe in the end he might tire an inning earlier than normal with a small enough delay. But yes, sometimes a larger delay can make them nearly completely fatigued.
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Coming back to this I find it very interesting and I wonder why we're not showing the drop in stamina immediately once they come back from a rain delay (I haven't checked it, but I'm pretty sure that's true). Similarly, after a reliever warms up for the 2nd or 3rd time and finally does come into the game, why do we have their stamina indicator starting at full and not somewhere not full? This is especially noticeable when they've warmed up too long, their status says tiring, but once you bring them in the indicator is still at full.
Is there a good reason behind this or did we just do it that way in the first place and never reconsidered it? I get from your post that the indicator just moves faster sometimes and I think that's my experience too, especially with good pitchers who can usually get pretty far into a game before needing to be relieved. But wouldn't it be better for the user experience if the indicator moved during delays and warming up? They'd have a better idea of how gas the pitcher had left. I get that managers don't know exactly how much gas a pitcher has left and some days they might have more than others, but surely they have some formula for warming up or soft tossing and how that affects how much the pitcher probably has left. If the indicator sometimes moves faster than it normally does I think that's fine, but I also think we should have the indicator move between delays and warming up too.