Skenes pitched 122 at LSU in 23 & 160 last year between Indy & Pitt. A 30% increase. He's on pace for 212 this year, a 32% increase. You might know better than me. Do we have any examples of teams drastically increasing innings for a young pitcher recently? Crochet is the only one I can think of - ThreadSky

mvp21.bsky.social • 2 days ago

Skenes pitched 122 at LSU in 23 & 160 last year between Indy & Pitt. A 30% increase. He's on pace for 212 this year, a 32% increase.

You might know better than me. Do we have any examples of teams drastically increasing innings for a young pitcher recently? Crochet is the only one I can think of

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robbm.bsky.social•2 days ago

I don't know I'd use something the Pirates are doing as a good example though lol ;-) PIT probably still does use that though because it's old and based on bad research

mvp21.bsky.social•2 days ago

That's why I'm curious if there are other examples of teams significantly increasing innings for young pitchers. Crochet was a weird case, if there are others by smart teams I'd be swayed

matrueblood.bsky.social•2 days ago

Bryan Bello went from 95 innings in 2021 to 153 in 2022. I don’t have a lot of time to sift for them and I’m not sure what criteria you’d want to use to confine the pool of comps, but I doubt this is as rare as you’re thinking it is.

mvp21.bsky.social•2 days ago

It might not be which is why I was asking. I've only skimmed through a handful of young pitchers and it seems like orgs gradually increase their innings near that 30% rule or so for the most part. Bello is a good shout as a pitcher who had a significant uptick in innings.

robbm.bsky.social•2 days ago

was trying to think of recent TB or CLE picthers and my mind went to Drew Rasmussen initially. 87 in Mi/MLB between MIL and TB in 2021 then 146 in TB in 22. He did have a flexor strain in 23 then that required surgery lol

mvp21.bsky.social•2 days ago

Yea. Either way it'll be interesting to see how the Brewers handle him down the stretch of a playoff race

matrueblood.bsky.social•2 days ago

For sure.

robbm.bsky.social•2 days ago

MIL is at 81games, if they limit him to 150ish, it's 70IP left. If he averages 5.5/start, that's about 13 more starts out of the 77 remaining games he'd pitch in, which is 1/6th of them. 1/5 of 77 would be 15 starts, so just bumping him back a day here&there may be enough. Playoffs would be ? tho

mvp21.bsky.social•2 days ago

Yea. If they are comfortable with 150 then they should be good for the season unless they want to save some innings for a potential playoff run. I'd imagine at minimum they will skip a start or two

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