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How did we come to decide that 100 pitches were too many?
Well, it seems that the number was arbitrary.
James Andrews, the renowned orthopedic surgeon, suggested 100 — a ballpark figure — in a 1999 study titled “Elbow Injuries in Young Baseball Players” with James Whiteside. Even 17 years later, this study is still frequently cited. The 100-pitch limit suggestion took hold, and it seems over time, the suggestion lost its ambiguity.
1TD, this is what I found on Fox Sports
https://www.foxsports.com/stories/mlb/the-problem-with-the-100-pitch-limit
I’ve wondered the same thing 1TD. It seems too nice and round of a number and it seems like it would vary pitcher to pitcher.
I don’t expect Robberse to be amazing, but he could be a solid #4 or #5 in the coming years. It will be good to see what he has in the majors though and to see if he holds up there.
Mathews really needs to be promoted to High A to maybe get challenged a little more and to be at a more age appropriate level. I’m definitely excited about him, but I don’t know if the results we are seeing are real or him being too old for the level.
Actually Robberse will like up for 5 days from last night’s start. He may get the start. They may also let it be Liberatore and let him go 3 or 4 and have a bullpen game.
Matz has been added to the 15 day IL with a back strain retroactive to May 1st. Leahy has been added to the active roster in his place. We will see who gets Tuesday’s start. Robberse pitched yesterday and wouldn’t be available. Liberatore may not be stretched out enough. Thompson is still scheduled to be pitching for Memphis tonight so it isn’t him. Kloffenstein is on the 40 man and rested but he has pitched poorly.
Im fairly certain the entire industry predicted a strong offense from Stl this year. I don’t think it has been an evaluation problem, but rather a significant underperformance by many players. That is potentially a coaching issue. We theoretically have all the tools to have a great offense.
I would like to see one of Liberatore, Robberse, or Graceffo get a good shot at the rotation and establish themselves for a couple of months later this year. We have some good promising young pitchers that we need to acclimate to a high league SP role, and we can’t do all of them at once. Soon after those guys are ready (some will bust and others may be RP), there will be another wave potentially ready in Roby and Hence.
I have thought Matz has the stuff to he a #3, but if he can’t put it togethe, I would turn that rotation spot over to one of the youngsters by July.
Shady, I would run the following lineup. Donovan and Noot are going to pick it up based off their batted ball data so I would keep them at the top of the lineup. Goldy also seems to be picking it up some. Gorman I would have in the lineup, but I would give him more off days to work on some things.
Donovan LF
Winn SS
Nootbar RF
Goldy 1B
Contreras C
Arenado 3B
Gorman 2B
Siani CF
Burly DHBurly has been getting on base better lately, so it may seem odd to have him at 9. But I prefer having someone who gets on base more in the 9 spot for the top of the order to drive in.
Anyone know how Nathan Church looks on defense? I don’t see any scouting reports on him. He is having a good season so far and I am glad to see him have more pop in his bat. I see in the Springfield he has been playing all 3 OF spots so I am hoping he is capable enough to be a 4th OF one day or as Fangraphs had bucketed him, a potential devil magic candidate.
Hence’s stuff is nasty. Fingers crossed Hence stays healthy as he looks to have the stuff to be a top of the rotation pitcher. MILB has a video of his strikeouts up. https://www.milb.com/video/tink-hence-s-10-strikeout-performance?t=playerid-693311
The pitch clock didn’t seem to bother 99% of pitchers, but I think Gallegos was one it did. I hated watching him previously as you could power nap between pitches.
RP are so finicky. Gallegos was so good for 4 years and now he just doesn’t have it now. He struggled with the stikezone and his slider has lost velocity and movement and must be much more hittable.
1TD, I understand the hesitation. I’m hopeful for Libby and we will see how he does. I know this is his 3rd year, but we don’t seem to have made any meaningful changes regarding pitcher development in that time. I have hope we get some new eyes in on the pitchers coaching and make some changes there. I also want to point out to that many great pitchers start out slow in their careers. I mentioned Fried earlier, and he didn’t pitch well either in his rookie age 23 season or his age 24 season (both with some starts and relieving). This is just now Libby’s age 24 season so he has plenty of time to make changes and learn to truly pitch.
Pitching is a funny art that where small adjustments can lead to a below average pitcher turning into a above average pitcher. Libby should have an out pitch with his curve. He just needs to locate it better. His slider and changeup show slightly above average potential as well. Libby compares well to Max Fried with his tools. I’m not sold on STL’s pitching development strategies as we can’t develop pitchers as we seem out of touch with the modern pitching environment, which is something Mo has acknowledged at least now. Look at how good Hicks has been this year with some adjustments to throw a little softer and focusing on the splitter and scrapping the slider.
Libby has looked better out of the pen, although his pitch mix seems much more SP appropriate. He does need to work on a few things and I think he could he a quality SP that I hope the coaching staff are discussing. I think in a more analytics driven team, he would be given a shot to start.
He first needs to start throwing more 1st pitch strikes. He is only sitting at at 53.8% leading him working behind in the count a lot and walking a good amount of hitters. Second, he either needs to either rework the sinker and cutter, or scrap them and focus on the 4 seam, his above average curve and slider, and changeup. Libby’s sinker has been hit hard his whole time in the bigs. It has much less movement than the average pitchers sinker and he is locating it up in the zone way too much.
The RP depth seems quite shallow at the moment on the 40 man. I don’t really see any good candidates even off the 40 man. I hate converting SP to RP as we do it too often, but given our full rotations in the upper minors, we may need to on some guys. I think Santos is going to RP which is where he profiles best anyway.
I think sending Pages down when Carlson is back is the right move. You can then move Donovan to full time DH/Util with Noot in LF, Siani in CF, and Carlson in RF. That is our best defensive alignment.
I hope Siani sticks in the roster, but it will be hard for him to stay when Edman gets back.