Posted by bigal888 on 7/20/2012 2:25:00 PM (view original):
MikeT: How do playoffs come into play then? Along your logic that there is some upper limit to the amount of pitches thrown...if a theoretical pitcher uses those all up on game 162 of the season, shouldn't he be unavailable for the playoffs?
This is actually the smartest question that has been proposed.
I think fatigue resets. 32 teams participate in ST and the regular season. 12 participate in the post-season. I don't think a seperate program or reset, especially since a new schedule is created, is out of the question. Now, as much as I'd like to say I know this for a fact, I do not. I've never had a position player get more fatigued during the playoffs but I generally have them, and my pitchers, at 100%. I've had position players bounce between 99 and 100 at the end of the regular season who played the post-season at 100%. And I've had guys enter the playoffs at 98% and never hit 97%. Maybe the extra off day did it, maybe I'm right.
But, again, I don't think any of us uses our pitchers to 100% capacity. I know I don't.