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Originally Posted by JonInMiddleGA
Just another further dumbing down of the sport.
For literally decades teams were somehow able to manage their bullpens adequately for those odd occasions. I don't recall any epidemic of position-player-pitching in tie games.
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That's because they didn't have any way to objectively quantify how inefficient to winning it was. Now they know, and it's almost derelict not to take it into account.
Now, the point about so many arms being ripped to shreds - maybe some team will decide to modify their approach based on a cost basis, but I don't see it happening. But certainly, the sport could kinda force teams into adjustments. Fixing a limit on the number of pitchers on the roster, cracking down on using the IL as extra roster spots for even more pitchers, etc.
Somehow I don't see that happening.