Sunday, June 13, 2004
More on Pitching
The NY Times today has a couple of interesting articles about pitching. First up is an article about Rick Peterson, describing some of the history that led him to be the pitching coach he is today.
Next is an article about the Wilmington Cannons, Class A franchise of the Cincinnati Red, where they are using a four-day rotation with their starters, with a 75-pitch count limit. Actually, the Cannons have divided eight pitchers into four pairs. Each pair of pitchers sees action every four days, and each pitcher has 75-pitch limit. One pitcher startes the game, and after he reaches his 75-pitch limit, the other pitcher takes over.
The item on the Potomac Cannons will not be news to regular readers of this blog. In my January 15 post about The Mariners Pitching Medicine Mess, I talked about this experiment by the Reds, and provided a link to a Cincinatti post story discussing the Reds intent to implement this program.
Added Note:In a recent e-mail, Peter White at Mariner Musings mentioned this post he made about the Cannons' tandem starter program. Peter also passed on this link to an article in the Washington Post from May 20 about the Cannons' pitching program.
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