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#11984	11/19/2014 3:01:41 am
ramar905 Joined: 03/03/2013 Posts: 19 Inactive	http://brokenbat.org/team/3 Can someone explain the success of this team's pitching staff, because it seems unexpected? Is pitching heavily reliant on the range of a team's OFs? That's the only advantage I see. I am asking because I am experiencing a great deal of difficulty in getting performances from my pitchers that reflect their abilities. I've tried over a number of seasons to no avail and even though my pitchers have as good or better SI's than other pitching staffs they continue to get hammered. I've improved overall positional fielding and OF range. I've tried moving fences back and increasing foul territory but I continue to get outpitched by inferior opponents league wide. Tell me your success stories and how you've gotten quality pitching from your staffs.

#11988	11/19/2014 6:45:25 am
dwindacatcher Joined: 04/03/2014 Posts: 633 Inactive	I'd love to know as well. I've never had great RP, but my quality starters never do as well as they should.

#12022	11/19/2014 10:28:11 pm
MukilteoMike Joined: 08/09/2014 Posts: 3294 Inactive	I didn't see anything that can explain the huge disparity. Your guys issue 1.1 more walks a game, but that isn't that bad. Amazingly you both strike out the opposition at the same exact rate (to the one-hundredth of a k per 9 ip). Yes, his outfielders are considerably better than yours defensively, but his middle infield is horrible. I have two guesses (and they are nothing more than guesses). One, it's not a large sample size. Two, the team ratings on his side are about 12 points lower than your half. Your pitchers might be facing a bit better competition.

#12043	11/20/2014 10:26:14 pm
MukilteoMike Joined: 08/09/2014 Posts: 3294 Inactive	One more thing just occurred to me...stamina. I see you've been forced to use two emergency starters recently; their stamina is horrible and you need to lower their pitch counts in a big way. They're likely to get crushed in their last innings. I'd also suggest checking out the last couple innings of all your starters. If they are giving up more than their fair share of runs late, lower their number of pitches a bit. You have more than enough arms to cover those relief innings.