Hitting fatigue is damaging, pitching fatigue is DEVASTATING!!!!! This cannot possibly be over emphasized. You might be able to do OK with some pitching fatigue, but this staff will be giving up 35 runs per gane after game 10. If you look over the forums carefully, you will find some very helpful guidelines for the required number of innings, based on ball park selection, and other factors. For me, personally, many of those recommendations are too conservative, I am not able to manage a pitching staff as well as some other managers can. Their recomendations are fair, however, and accurate for the managers in question. Very generally, and paining with a very broad brush, 1300 innings is an absolute minimum, and if you are getting into a league with a higher salary cap, you will almost certainly need more. Don't get ahead of yourself in this game. Read the forums until you are sick of them. There is an absolute wealth of info there, and will save you an enormous amount of trial and error. Just keep in mind what salary cap the writer was writing for, because what is gospel at 80m may be blasphemy at 120m. Patience and study is rewarded.