{"id":405,"date":"2011-02-26T12:38:34","date_gmt":"2011-02-26T19:38:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mfooz.com\/bblog\/?p=405"},"modified":"2011-02-26T12:57:28","modified_gmt":"2011-02-26T19:57:28","slug":"historical-pitcher-usage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mfooz.com\/bblog\/?p=405","title":{"rendered":"Historical Pitcher Usage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>How long do starters go, how many relievers, <i>etc.<\/i><\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s the simplest measurement, one obtainable from Retrosheet game logs: the average number of pitchers used in one game by one team. <\/p>\n<p><img src='http:\/\/www.mfooz.com\/bblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/usage20110226.png' alt='usage20110226.png' \/><\/p>\n<p>The DH is certainly a factor from 1973 on, but it looks like it was falling anyway in the two seasons prior.<\/p>\n<p>I wonder if we&#8217;ve reached a limit at 4 per game. Might be the max for a 25-man roster.<\/p>\n<p>More to come&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How long do starters go, how many relievers, etc. Here&#8217;s the simplest measurement, one obtainable from Retrosheet game logs: the average number of pitchers used in one game by one team. The DH is certainly a factor from 1973 on, but it looks like it was falling anyway in the two seasons prior. I wonder &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mfooz.com\/bblog\/?p=405\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Historical Pitcher Usage<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-405","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mlb"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mfooz.com\/bblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/405","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mfooz.com\/bblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mfooz.com\/bblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mfooz.com\/bblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mfooz.com\/bblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=405"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.mfooz.com\/bblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/405\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mfooz.com\/bblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=405"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mfooz.com\/bblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=405"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mfooz.com\/bblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=405"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}