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How is a pitch limit any less arbitrary?
It is generally accepted that you want to limit a player to between 50-100 inning jumps from season to season after TJ surgery. Most teams stick to this principle.
You can make some tweaks on the fringes, but the end result will almost certainly be a similar number of innings.
And then you run into the issue of pulling your starter in the fifth inning every time out and really taxing your bullpen during the regular season. Without the guarantee that Strasburg will even be available for the postseason.
He had 137 plate appearances begin with at least a pitch count of 75. Even if you make the assumption that half of those plate appearances occurred after he reached 85-90 pitches, you're still only looking at an extra 65 plate appearances are so that you can get out of him. Maybe you get an extra 15 innings (so, three starts) out of the back end of his season if you had him on a pitch count.
You're offering a tweak on the margins that doesn't change the big picture, overall. A pitch limit does not keep him available in the postseason, unless you are also saying "No innings limit whatsoever" which is stupid.
It is generally accepted that you want to limit a player to between 50-100 inning jumps from season to season after TJ surgery. Most teams stick to this principle.
You can make some tweaks on the fringes, but the end result will almost certainly be a similar number of innings.
And then you run into the issue of pulling your starter in the fifth inning every time out and really taxing your bullpen during the regular season. Without the guarantee that Strasburg will even be available for the postseason.
He had 137 plate appearances begin with at least a pitch count of 75. Even if you make the assumption that half of those plate appearances occurred after he reached 85-90 pitches, you're still only looking at an extra 65 plate appearances are so that you can get out of him. Maybe you get an extra 15 innings (so, three starts) out of the back end of his season if you had him on a pitch count.
You're offering a tweak on the margins that doesn't change the big picture, overall. A pitch limit does not keep him available in the postseason, unless you are also saying "No innings limit whatsoever" which is stupid.
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