Why the pitching is so bad

Bill Madden in his column in today’s New York Daily News offers the best explanation I’ve heard for the maddening inconsistency of baseball’s bullpens:

So herein lies the crux of this pitch-count insanity: It has come down to managers entrusting the most critical innings not to the starting pitchers in whom the team has its biggest investment, but rather to (more often than not) mediocre middle relievers. Can anyone explain what sense this makes?

I can’t. This is one of the reasons that offense has been on the rise and it’s why no team has been able to establish a level of consistency this year. Perhaps it’s time to let guys like Tom Glavine (who was yanked a few minutes ago after throwing exactly 100 pitches) go a bit deeper into games.

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Hank Kalet is a poet and freelance journalist. He is the economic needs reporter for NJ Spotlight, teaches journalism at Rutgers University and writing at Middlesex County College and Brookdale Community College. He writes a semi-monthly column for the Progressive Populist. He is a lifelong fan of the New York Mets and New York Knicks, drinks too much coffee and attends as many Bruce Springsteen concerts as his meager finances will allow. He lives in South Brunswick with his wife Annie. View all posts by hankkalet