There is in-game fatigue.   Meaning he's not 100% after x-amount of pitches.  He fatigues as the game progresses.   In theory, fatigue affects peformance(I don't know if this has ever been confirmed by WIfS but most of us believe it to be true).    I believe it because I've had so many pitchers "improve" atfer moving from the rotation to the bullpen and seeing their PC reduced from 70/80 to 50/60.    

In your case, he'll be able to pitch at 100% sooner.   Not sure if you'll be able to take advantage of it because you sort of have to build a staff to make it work.

Posted by mccarthyizm on 3/12/2012 11:54:00 PM (view original):
Thanks for your thoughts, guys. We'll take his pitch count down and hope that he comes around. But just to make sure I understand what you're suggesting:

Even though he has a crazy combination of stamina and durability, Ontiveros could be struggling because he's not able to remain effective at high pitch counts? As in, he can handle the pitch count from a dur/sta standpoint but he can't excel over that many pitches from a performance standpoint?

I think he should be perfectly fine at 120P per G.

He's played 7 away from Burlington and 4 at Burlington, that's basically a 2-1 Away split, that won't help his numbers; in addition he gave up 7HR, and 14ERin 15IP across two games, which is inflating his basic numbers. If you take those away, he has an ERA about 3.5, and considering its apparently an offensive league, and he's playing most of his games on the road, that looks more reasonable.

It's possible, he's facing a lot of LHB, which isn't helping him, otherwise i would expect it to be a case of defensive inefficiency.