Pitch counts changing the development stages of starters. (Current Strategy).(baseball ptiching)(Brief Article)

From: Baseball Digest | Date: September 1, 2002| Author: Holtzman, Jerome | Copyright information

ADMITTEDLY, THE GAME HAS changed. What happens today cannot be compared to the past. One of the new-fangled inventions that seems to have escaped popular notice is the pitch count. It isn't unusual for a manager to tell his starting pitcher, "All we want is six good innings."

There is also a new unofficial and supporting stat created by John Lowe, the respected Detroit baseball writer. It's called a "quality start": six innings with a yield of three runs or fewer. It ap...

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