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
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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.
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.
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
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
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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