pitchers under OS 28 innings

[Slvanlae]

Doing some projecting...I am getting near the end (Hopefully) of a long rebuild and although we are only 40 games into the season it looks like my team could be in the race for a playoff spot and 2 of my starters, both OS26, accumulating over 200 innings if I leave them in rotation. Last year as a sub .500 team I was able to manage them to innings totals in the 190's with some bullpen work. I would imaging if I do that this year it will cost us a few games in the win column knocking us out of any playoff hopes. There is a real dominant team in the league and even if we were to sneak in the likely hood of advancing would be slim.

The guide states "pitching an OS27 (meaning the player's age is 27 on December 31 of the year in question) or younger starter more than 200 innings or reliever more than 100 innings will cause his health to drop five points (out of 100) when the off-season runs." The starters in question have A and A- health. My question is how should I manage them? Keep them in the rotation and see if we stay in the playoff hunt? Skip them periodically during the season? Currently they are #2 and #3 starters. Don't worry about the health penalty?

[Slvanlae]

I forgot to mention, 1 pitcher still has options, the other does not.

[ratman44]

Unless it is a max injury league, I wouldn't care about it.

I have seen an F health pitcher that went his whole career with 2 injuries one that lasted 15 days and the other was only 2 days. It is not like this guy was babied, he pitched 270+ innings every year the first half of his career.

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Injuries are Random, I don't worry about it. When they are under 27 I pitch them to maximize IC's.

I don't even look at health on pitchers, the only way it would factor is if there were 2 identical pitchers at the draft, I would probably rank the healthier one higher.

They are A and A- health, so worst case scenario you pitch them both and they lose 10 points and end up B+ and B health respectively if they just so happen to be at the low end of the grade.


The only thing I have noticed is if you overpitch a reliever and by that I mean you have him as your first option everyday, they tend to get hurt more than any other pitcher. I do this in all my leagues where I have a reliever set as my all option reliever and no matter the health they get hurt.


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