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Schmuck: Orioles need 4 Starters and a a few Spot starts Until June


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I don't really understand Schmuck's logic. The Orioles have six off days in the first 61 days of the season, April 6 through June 5. That's not an unusually high number of off days. Over the whole season, the Orioles play 162 games in 182 days. Buck isn't going to be skipping the fifth starter every time they have a day off early in the season.

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I don't really understand Schmuck's logic. The Orioles have six off days in the first 61 days of the season, April 6 through June 5. That's not an unusually high number of off days. Over the whole season, the Orioles play 162 games in 182 days. Buck isn't going to be skipping the fifth starter every time they have a day off early in the season.

Schmuck must be predicting no rain this Spring.

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Why would we even want to skip the 5th starter when our top 5 starters all have pretty similar talent levels and a couple of them are proven to be better pitchers when they have more rest over the course of the season?

With our particular roster, a 6-man rotation would be better than a 4-man rotation.

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Yeah, this isn't going to happen. Skipping the fifth starter only makes sense if a couple of your starters are markedly better than the others and you want to maximize their starts or your fifth starter is markedly inferior to your fourth starter. Neither is the case.

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Why would we even want to skip the 5th starter when our top 5 starters all have pretty similar talent levels and a couple of them are proven to be better pitchers when they have more rest over the course of the season?

With our particular roster, a 6-man rotation would be better than a 4-man rotation.

Yeah, this isn't going to happen. Skipping the fifth starter only makes sense if a couple of your starters are markedly better than the others and you want to maximize their starts or your fifth starter is markedly inferior to your fourth starter. Neither is the case.

Exactly. We have too many starters, not too few.

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