25 Pitchers on DL! Am I Shocked for No Reason?

rico43

rico43

<B>Director of Minor League Reports</B>
Cribbing these from the overall list on the MLB daily page, I could not believe we have a full roster, 25 men, of pitchers on the DL. This includes TJ pickups like Biddle and Paco and guys who are rehabbing and on their way back.

Notable that Shea Simmons is no longer listed on DL. His page says he was reassigned to minors!

ATLANTA: Jesse Biddle, John Gant, Mark Marksberry, Andrew McKirahan, Williams Perez, Paco Rodriguez, Julio Teheran, Arodys Vizcaino, Daniel Winkler, Chris Withrow.

GWINNETT: Aaron Blair, Maikel Cleto, Brady Fiegl (rehab), Casey Kelly, Rob Wooten.

MISSISSIPPI: Manny Banuelos, Kyle Kinman.

CAROLINA: Tyler Brosius, Britt Robertshaw, Chad Sobotka.

ROME: Chris Diaz, Max Fried, Dalton Geekie.

DANVILLE: none

GCL: Zach Becherer, Matt Rowland.
 
The amazing thing is I believe only one pitcher in our system has need TJ surgery this year. Knock on wood.
 
In the almost-as-shocking department (perhaps even moreso), the Braves have had 31 different pitchers participating at the major league level this season (with the list likely to get longer in September). Anyone know the record for the number of different pitchers to perform at the major league level for a team in a season? We have to be close.
 
50PoundHead said:
In the almost-as-shocking department (perhaps even moreso), the Braves have had 31 different pitchers participating at the major league level this season (with the list likely to get longer in September). Anyone know the record for the number of different pitchers to perform at the major league level for a team in a season? We have to be close.
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Didn't we set it last year?
 
Is this supposed to be a lot? It's 7 levels of teams. That's 3.5 per level. Rebuilding teams usually take on injury prone players hoping to get lucky. Like how Prior got contracts for 10 years after he stopped being healthy.
 
50PoundHead said:
Looks like it. We had 37 guys pitch for the big league team last year. I forgot all about Sugar Ray Marimon, John Cornely, Dana Eveland (who pitched in the big leagues in 2016), Donnie Veal, Jake Brigham, Eric Stults, etc.
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how could you forget Donnie
 
The funny thing about this - assuming one could actually call the situation "funny" - is that there are some folks that swear we have a pitching surplus. Just sayin'.
 
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