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Mojak81
Joined: 11/26/2016
Posts: 12

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Any thoughts on using a guy with a stamina less than 10 as a starter?

http://brokenbat.org/player/145911

I use this guy as a really good closer (as long as he doesn't pitch like he did last year), but I keep wondering if I'm short-changing myself with the number of innings he gets in.

Thinking about it, I have some dependable arms in the bullpen that should be able to close out the game after the 7th or even 6th. On principle, I just like my starters to go 7 or 8.
nxck98
Joined: 08/09/2018
Posts: 97

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Keep him in the bullpen. If he gets starter time, his performances will worsen as he doesn't have as much stamina to maintain his quality.
Rock777
Joined: 09/21/2014
Posts: 9571

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Closers are more important than Starters because they pitch in more critical innings. Starters eat up a lot of retrospectively "lost cause" innings.

If you set him to come into the game in the 8th inning as a Closer, he could get a comparable amount of innings as he would as a Starter anyhow.
amalric7
Joined: 01/20/2016
Posts: 2235

New York Lancers
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My man Baird started 31 games in Legends last season with a 7 Stamina (he's now moving to the pen). He always seemed to play best as a starter - the few occasions I tried him in LR never seemed to work, and I figured I'd much rather have 6-7 solid innings from him as a starter than have him come in as relief to pitch 1-2 innings in a game that could go either way.

It depends on what your options are really - short of starters then stick him in the rotation with a pitch count (100 max); plenty of starter options stick him in the pen.
Rock777
Joined: 09/21/2014
Posts: 9571

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I play my 15 stamina guys for 100 pitches... Folks definitely have different strategies with pitching ;)


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