1979 Cubs use only one reliever

[Qrusher14242]

This is wierd. The 1979 Cubs used only Bruce Sutter as a reliever. Only used 7 total pitchers all year(Willie Hernandez was used for only 9IP)

They went 92-70. Here's Sutter's line:

13-7, 1.15 ERA 77G(all in relief), 172.2 IP 0.93WHIP 8.13 K/9

I've never seen this before. Anyone else? They had tons of pitchers on the reserve roster.

[blackrussian]

Originally Posted by Qrusher14242

This is wierd. The 1979 Cubs used only Bruce Sutter as a reliever. Only used 7 total pitchers all year(Willie Hernandez was used for only 9IP)

They went 92-70. Here's Sutter's line:

13-7, 1.15 ERA 77G(all in relief), 172.2 IP 0.93WHIP 8.13 K/9

I've never seen this before. Anyone else? They had tons of pitchers on the reserve roster.

what kind of league settings did you use? any minors? it kind of resembles how ootp was handling deadball pitcher usage, 5-6 mostly starters and 1 or 2 guys who would throw 5-10 IP thru the year.

[Qrusher14242]

Well i have no minors and Relievers were set to 'Very rarely'. I've had a few instances where this has happened so far. Randy Myers threw 180IP as the only reliever one year too.

[Raidergoo]

Originally Posted by Qrusher14242

Well i have no minors and Relievers were set to 'Very rarely'.

Vary rarely is not 1979 baseball. It may be closer to 1919.