Playoff Pitching Settings Topic

Just looking to see what, if anything you guys tweak for your arms come playoff time.  Do you set any RH/LH specialists at this stage? Do you bump your Call Bullpen rankings? Just looking for feedback and different ideas for what other owners do when the rubber meets the road.      
1/8/2013 10:20 PM
Three starters.   Raise pull by 1.
Three LR.  Pull set at 4.
Three SuA.  Raise pull by 1.

If you don't have a blowout or a couple of extra inning games, you won't need more.    I've gotten by with 8 pitchers.  Case in point:
Peter Randolph 3 0 0 0 0 0 2 2 2.0 1 1 1 0 1 1 .143 .250 .286 1.00 4.50
Santiago Machado 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2.1 0 0 0 0 1 1 .000 .125 .000 0.43 0.00
Tomas Ayala 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 6.1 9 4 4 3 4 6 .333 .419 .667 2.05 5.68
Luis Torcato 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 6.1 2 1 1 0 2 1 .105 .217 .158 0.63 1.42
Junior Pichardo 5 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 6.2 10 3 3 0 1 1 .333 .375 .367 1.65 4.05
Tyler Sampson 9 0 0 0 1 0 1 1 11.0 9 3 3 0 5 6 .237 .326 .237 1.27 2.45
Esmailyn Baez 4 4 0 0 0 2 0 0 12.2 26 17 17 5 5 10 .419 .463 .742 2.45 12.08
Chris Earley 4 2 0 0 3 0 0 0 19.1 17 5 5 3 5 14 .236 .286 .375 1.14 2.33
Sun Choi 4 4 0 0 0 2 0 0 20.1 21 8 8 1 3 15 .259 .286 .309 1.18 3.54

I carried 9 but could have carried 8.  Machado is 0/64 who averaged 26 innings over the last two seasons. 
1/9/2013 8:53 AM
I don't do anything that drastic, other than shuffle my top three SP about as needed with a 4th waiting in the wings.  I also take all guys I don't want pitching for the next particular day and put them on rest.
1/9/2013 6:08 PM
I do whatever works for the particular staff to jam more innings onto the best pitchers, inning-for-inning.  If the SP are noticeably worse, inning for inning, than the top 3-4 relievers, I give the starters a quicker hook.  If the reverse is true I might lengthen the pitch counts for the SP.  If I have a single stud reliever I might quick-hook some of the other RP, and set the auto-rest for the stud lower than the usual 98 or so.  And in an elimination game I may rest everybody except the specific guys I want to pitch in that game.
1/10/2013 11:38 AM
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