09-22-2020, 07:26 PM
(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.
1968 Bengal Fan
