Innings Limit

[cruzg24]

What are your thoughts on a manager having a pitches limit or innings limit for their pitchers? Agree or Disagree?

 

[RipCity32]

I mean if the limit is for a guy coming off an injury, the limits should definitely be there.

 

[bosoxlover12]

What are your thoughts on a manager having a pitches limit or innings limit for their pitchers? Agree or Disagree?

Dontrelle Willis.

 

[Elite]

I've seen first hand innings limits destroy two pitchers, Joba Chamberlain and Phil Hughes, and I will never approve of them.

 

[Giantmetfan07]

Only when rehabbing from an injury. Other than that, I hate the pitch limit for a game or the innings limit for a season.

I forget where I saw it, but before Strasburg had his major injury I saw that he was babied in HS and College, and they limited his pitches and how often he pitched, so that he basically just pitched on weekends. Ultimately, he ended up needing Tommy john.

It's screwed up, man. So many pitchers in the history of this game have gone closed game after closed game for many years, and then you get to present day and guys are having Tommy John surgery what appears to be, more frequently.

There's probably no proof to back this statement up, but I honestly believe limiting innings or pitches to a healthy pitcher can have a major backfire.

 

[Mexi]

you have to monitor the young pitchers some how
but an innings limit is stupid

what if you have a young ground ball pitcher who gets a ton of 9, 10 pitch easy innings?
let him pitch

i like what the dodgers do
they bring up a young starter, start him, when they believe he's had enough, they throw him in the pen and let him pitch 2-3 innings once or twice a week

Dodgers have been pretty good developing guys throughout the years

 

[cruzg24]

I agree with GMF. I think an innings limit should only be imposed onto pitchers who are recovering from injury. I think that the pitchers should be allowed to pitch until they feel uncomfortable due to fatigue. Pitchers need to pitch, a lack of pitching is a greater threat to injury than an abundance of pitching.

They should go back to the old days and just let them pitch. But obviously that wont happen because owners have a great investment to these guys who pitch.

 

[NV]

Unless for rehab reasons I don't like them, at all. Like BC said after watching what the Yankees have done to Joba and Hughes it's hard for me to approve of them.