A little on bullpen usage

OttoC

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Dec 2, 2003
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This is through game 84 (i.e., doesn't include last night) and shows the projected games and inning pitched for 162 games for the six remaining bullpen pitchers with any significant amount of games pitched. There are also bar charts showing the pitchers' appearances based on team games. The first four are getting into a higher number of games than I like to see while Badenhop's projected innings are too high, in my opinion. However, Badenhop's usage has been spread out more, recently, but Tazawa and Uehara are each getting more back-to-back outings, which can lead to "exhaustion." They need Mujica or Breslow to start pitching more to their career standards because now that ill is gone, I don't think they don't have anyone at Pawtucket with much ML experience out of the pen.