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Reds Sept 16th-27th . . . Last 10 games - The race to the playoffs or elimination
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(09-22-2020, 06:47 PM)fredtoast Wrote: This is huge.

Every year teams want to go with a shorter rotation in the playoffs, but they can't because their key starters have already logged 200+ innings.

This year we should be able to ride these guys hard in the postseason because their arms are still fresh.  they have pitched less than 1/2 of a season.

and just as 1990 you can reinforce bullpen by moving Charlton and Jack Armstrong to bullpen in play-offs.....In 2020 it would be Mahle, Disco, Lorenzen as starters back to bullpen.   If you have 3 top Starters, sending 4 and 5 to the pen gives you a stronger pen....1995 when Reds moved that real good lefty starter to pen, David Wells.  3 Top Starters and a deep pen in play-offs is hard to beat.  You get 2 pitchers pitching like Koufax and Drysdale, forget about it.  World Series always comes down to a team with Hot Starters.   Gibson-Carlton.  McClain-Lolich, Seaver-Koosman. Johnson- Schilling, Scherzer-Strasburg....Bauer, Castillo, Gray could be tough. 
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RE: Reds Sept 16th-27th . . . Last 10 games - The race to the playoffs or elimination - kevin - 09-22-2020, 07:26 PM

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