Managing main setup's Innings.

[cummings2]

Have a team in 1st place, after 114 games Mike Gonzales has pitched 123 innings while setting up Billy Wagner who's pitched 72 innings so far. Team has a knack for coming back in late innings, Gonzo has a 10-4 record with 11 saves (1.75 ERA) and Waggs has an 8-1 record with 26 saves (1,36 ERA) other arms in pen are Mullholland (Mopup/spot starter), Witasick (3W 0L 3S 2.81 ERA 41 IP -Avoid LHB) and Mayhay (4W 4L 1S 4.60 ERA 92 IP).

Now the question is this at this rate Gonzo will start getting penalized for overuse in a 5 to 10 games with 30 more to go after that. Would you set him to mopup, max 1 inning and save him for divisional run and hopefully playoffs or would you just ride him until his arm falls even if you risk a late season collapse?

The team has a 14 game lead and the strating rotation has 3S6, 1S7 and 1S5 not a single stud, just workman-like pitchers who you can't really set to slow hook and expect passable results.

[Stoney18]

It's my understanding that there is no total innings pitched fatigue rule in SOM.

[cummings2]

You may be right, I am going by what marcus wilby wrote in the newbie advice thread found in the strategy forum:

"9- this game is not too much realistic about relievers: they can easily go for 200 innings without getting penalized...(however, I pretty sure that a pitcher like Dotel who gets 300 innings has pitched many games with some penalties on the fatigue rule...so you might try to avoid this. But 200 innings is often reached by relievers).

Addendum...For one-inning reliever, 140 innings per season seems close to the limit before reaching the penalty overusage."

I am not that experienced so as to know the exact answer to this, hence my starting this poll/post :D

[bigmahon]

Cummings2, what marcus wilby (better known as [b:23e218170b]luckyman[/b:23e218170b]) is saying there is that an RP with excessive innings likely pitched fatigued in any number of [i:23e218170b]individual games[/i:23e218170b]. There is no penalty for overuse that kicks in after a certain number of games in the season. There is a fatigue penalty which kicks in after 3 (I believe) consecutive games pitched, in addition to the basic within game penalty based on the pitcher's endurance rating and # of baserunners allowed.

So there is no benefit to resting Gonzalez for the playoffs. :wink:

[cummings2]

AHA! Thankyou very much! Now I've got it...good thing we haven't rested Gonzo...

[MARCPELLETIER]

what bigmahon-I-have-a-Shea-team-that-will-get-crunched-in-the-playoffs says. :D

[bigmahon]

We'll see about that Marcus. :P