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Originally Posted by jarmenia
I'm confused, other than right before the playoffs, why would you ever want your fifth starter to pitch if your ace is available. He's your ace because he's your best pitcher, even if he's only slightly better he's still better.  |
I've been confused for months.
This discussion, or something like it, came up in beta while back. I had that same argument, and someone said (to the effect) that strict order would skip your number 5 if the ace was ready.... but that doesn't sound like strict order to me.
I went digging through stats at that time and found that it's not 100% either way these days. Some teams always throw their 5th starter no matter what, and some teams throw their 1-4 out every 5th day and fill in when 1-4 hasn't had full rest.
Maybe strict order is meant for the 1-4 guys only? So you wouldn't end up with a weeks rotation looking like 1,3,2,5,4 or something? Perhaps for a league that plays 4 games a week?
Once I heard strict order may not = any definition I would come up with for 'strict order' I stopped reading the thread since I didn't understand the language.