What even is a bullpen?

ShawnSoup · 12-11-2020, 10:29 PM

ShawnSoup · 12-11-2020, 10:34 PM

Side note for the suggestions thread, can we get a bronze achievement for when a starter completes a game with 10 or more innings pitched. Could call it.

"Bullepen? I dont need no stinking bullpen!"

TomVeal · 12-11-2020, 11:38 PM

An average of 11 pitches an inning over an 11 inning stretch is even more remarkable than an 11 inning complete game.

ShawnSoup · 12-11-2020, 11:46 PM

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Originally Posted by TomVeal

An average of 11 pitches an inning over an 11 inning stretch is even more remarkable than an 11 inning complete game.

Oh wow you're right I didn't even do the math. I just saw him as the #1 star in my league and looked at the box score. I should have checked out the log to see what he was doing especially with 5 walks and from the looks of it only 1 DP.

SirSaab · 12-12-2020, 01:36 AM

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Originally Posted by TomVeal

An average of 11 pitches an inning over an 11 inning stretch is even more remarkable than an 11 inning complete game.

This. That’s an incredibly efficient performance. Wow.

Westheim · 12-12-2020, 03:19 AM

You can say what you want, the most shocking thing for me here is that Franklyn Kilome pitched nine innings in one go on two hits and ten whiffs.

Bobbyraz49 · 12-12-2020, 11:45 AM

My mistake was watching football as I played as GM/manager in one of my leagues.
Looking at the pitch count, my starter was in the 9th, throwing 156 pitches. He got the win ! And won his following start. I thought he would have landed on the IL. Nope.

CBeisbol · 12-12-2020, 12:47 PM

121 pitches, as people have pointed out, isn't that many. Wasn't too long ago that pitchers frequently threw that many pitches.

That it was an average of 11 per inning also helps, I'd think. Long stressful innings are more likely to tire the pitcher leading to worse mechanics and more injury (maybe).

So, this is basically the ideal situation, as far as my quite limited understating of the biomechanics of pitching, for a pitcher to throw a lot of pitches and complete a lot of innings.

Though, I'd imagine there's a point where there could be too few pitches per inning. If a pitcher, for an extreme example, was only throwing 3 pitches per inning, they might not be able to complete (120/3) 40 innings as the arm would be cooling down and warming up to often. Plus, more warmup pitches that aren't counted in the pitch count

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ShawnSoup Minors (Double A) Join Date: Nov 2020 Posts: 123	What even is a bullpen? Last edited by ShawnSoup; 12-11-2020 at 10:32 PM.

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ShawnSoup Minors (Double A) Join Date: Nov 2020 Posts: 123	Side note for the suggestions thread, can we get a bronze achievement for when a starter completes a game with 10 or more innings pitched. Could call it. "Bullepen? I dont need no stinking bullpen!"

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TomVeal All Star Starter Join Date: Jul 2013 Location: Spanaway, Washington Posts: 1,242	An average of 11 pitches an inning over an 11 inning stretch is even more remarkable than an 11 inning complete game.

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Bobbyraz49 All Star Reserve Join Date: Apr 2020 Posts: 927	My mistake was watching football as I played as GM/manager in one of my leagues. Looking at the pitch count, my starter was in the 9th, throwing 156 pitches. He got the win ! And won his following start. I thought he would have landed on the IL. Nope.

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CBeisbol Banned Join Date: Aug 2019 Location: Ban land in 3...2... Posts: 2,943	121 pitches, as people have pointed out, isn't that many. Wasn't too long ago that pitchers frequently threw that many pitches. That it was an average of 11 per inning also helps, I'd think. Long stressful innings are more likely to tire the pitcher leading to worse mechanics and more injury (maybe). So, this is basically the ideal situation, as far as my quite limited understating of the biomechanics of pitching, for a pitcher to throw a lot of pitches and complete a lot of innings. Though, I'd imagine there's a point where there could be too few pitches per inning. If a pitcher, for an extreme example, was only throwing 3 pitches per inning, they might not be able to complete (120/3) 40 innings as the arm would be cooling down and warming up to often. Plus, more warmup pitches that aren't counted in the pitch count