http://wrigleyville.locals.baseballprospectus.com/2015/05/20/using-three-to-make-two/ Just another Baseball Prospectus Local Sites site Sat, 16 Feb 2019 21:04:52 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=4.1.1 http://wrigleyville.locals.baseballprospectus.com/2015/05/20/using-three-to-make-two/#comment-803 Fri, 22 May 2015 03:09:17 +0000 http://wrigleyville.locals.baseballprospectus.com/?p=1348#comment-803 4 guys is too many roster spots I think, but I do think C.J. Edwards would be perfect for a role in this. Jacob Turner maybe too.

]]> http://wrigleyville.locals.baseballprospectus.com/2015/05/20/using-three-to-make-two/#comment-799 Thu, 21 May 2015 21:15:52 +0000 http://wrigleyville.locals.baseballprospectus.com/?p=1348#comment-799 Haven’t read the book, thanks for the tip. I don’t know what the right recovery time would be for a 35-pitch outing would be, but two days off seems about right to me. The roster spot issue I don’t think is a problem. In the article I argued you get two starter workloads plus 40 IP from the the third spot, but I think you could do a bit better than that. Sometimes the starter will find themselves in a low-leverage spot with one or two outs in the fifth as the lineup flips. Like if last night’s game was 3-0 instead of 3-2 when Wada was yanked. The same may be true for the reliever innings. On those days, let him throw to an extra hitter or two. I’d bet you could pick up an extra 20-40 outs that way over the course of a season, so it would be more like 50 extra innings, not 40.

]]> http://wrigleyville.locals.baseballprospectus.com/2015/05/20/using-three-to-make-two/#comment-797 Thu, 21 May 2015 19:00:01 +0000 http://wrigleyville.locals.baseballprospectus.com/?p=1348#comment-797 A four-headed monster, Wada/Jackson and Hendricks/Wood would seem even better, assuming Jackson could be counted on for even that. By alternating handedness in each piggyback arrangement, lineup construction becomes more complicated for opposing managers. Having Wood pitch twice in a cycle seems like it’s asking for unforseen (negative) consequences.
If Jackson can’t be counted on for even that, and assuming the DFA would soon follow, CJ Edwards would seem like a perfect counterpart to Wada, and might ease the transition into a big league season (4 months of 70 pitches every 5th day).

]]> http://wrigleyville.locals.baseballprospectus.com/2015/05/20/using-three-to-make-two/#comment-796 Thu, 21 May 2015 14:20:30 +0000 http://wrigleyville.locals.baseballprospectus.com/?p=1348#comment-796 I’ve been interested in this general concept since Earnshaw Cook’s “Percentage Baseball”. An added advantage is that it gives you a semi-DH in the N L. The drawback is roster spots and bullpen recovery rates, in particular the latter.

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