Posted by MikeT23 on 2/6/2016 9:50:00 AM (view original):
I was thinking the reverse. Sit your true position prospects and set your d-rep/rest to 1/1/1 in the 8th. Then your PP come in, play a couple of innings in the field, maybe get an AB and remain at 100% all season while minimizing injury risk.
It makes no sense to program like that.
I asked because that's pretty much what I've usually done in ST, based on the
possibility that it's strictly games. It ends up getting the starters roughly the same total AB/IP as the more-common setup of playing them in a handful of games and then resting them, so I don't see a downside risk. I set it up more aggressively than 1/1/1 in the 8th, using the 1/1/1 earlier and getting three rotations of 8 players each 1-2 ABs per game. I put every current ML pitcher and prospective pitcher at minimum pitch counts with a 4-man rotation and everyone else set to SUA, with a non-prospect at mop-up.
Obviously that's not a terribly logical way to program it, but it wouldn't make much sense to create a separate development system just for ST either.