2025-2026 offseason thread
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cajunrevenge
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I know the Braves wont do this but they need to embrace this positonless pitcher stuff. In a world where 30% of teams make the playoffs we need to build a playoff team and hope to make the playoffs not the other way around. In the playoffs its better to get 2-3 elite innings than 6 good innings from a pitcher. Sale and Schwellenbach are good enough to go 6 innings in a playoff game but we can get almost as many innings from a pitcher coming out of the pen in a playoff series. The arm is most susceptible to injury when it is fatigued. So pitchers with injury issues we should be able to keep them healthier pitching more often but for shorter periods. For Sale it would be better for him to pitch 5 innings every 5 days than give him 6 days rest and have him pitch 6+ innings. And if we arent giving those extra days rest we need a 5th starter far less often with all the offdays in a season. Something like 15-20 starts in a season. We could go with bullpen games or call up a spot starter for those games if need be. We have plenty of options this year. Strider/Lopez/Holmes I think can all go 2 innings every 3 games and be pretty dominate. Sale we put on a pitch count around 80 pitches. If he can get through 6 or more in that many pitches all the better but generally the 5th is the limit. Schwelly and Waldrep being young you let them 6-7 if they can. I think we would need to add one reliable starter and my favorite for this strategy would be Ranger Suarez. We could reasonably expect 6 IP from him most nights. In theory with Strider/Lopez/Holmes pitching 2 innings every 3 games that comes out to around 120+ IP a year, And thats how we need to look out of it. How many quality innings can we get from people while keeping them healthy. It shouldnt be 200 innings as a SP or 70 IP as a reliever. Some people should be in between that. So we would have 7 pitchers giving us 120+ IP which leaves 6 more spots for relievers to fill in the rest of the innings. I think this would work extremely well if we could pair pitchers with very oppising styles. Like imagine facing Sale for 5 innings then having to face Strider pitching from the right side in a game. Also why adding the lefty Suarez is important,
