[外電] OPEN醬外 五大投手奇想

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Sergio Romo's 'opener' role is crazy, but here are five more innovative ways
teams could use their bullpens

The BBQ's Best 5 is exactly what it sounds like: Each week, we'll pick a
category around the world of baseball and talk about the five best things
within that group. Today, we're taking a look at the Best 5 ways teams could
utilize pitchers in unique ways.

Recently, the Rays turned the baseball world on its head by having established
reliever Sergio Romo start a game against the Angels. Romo thus faced the
opposing team's best hitters at the top of the lineup before turning the ball
over to a starter who then went deeper into the game.

Kudos to the Rays, but we think there's ample room to create even more outside
-the-box usage strategies for pitchers. These are the five bizarre pitching
strategies that baseball teams should adopt:

5. Have the ace of the staff relieve on his bullpen day

Sure, throwing a controlled bullpen before a game doesn't compare to a high-
leverage relief appearance, but imagine if an ambitious, competitive pitcher
were to be open to experimentation.

Say the Astros find themselves in a late-inning, one-out situation where they
really need a strikeout or two. Then boom, Justin Verlander emerges from the
bullpen, K's the two batters on 10 total pitches and gets Houston out of the
inning. We've seen it in the postseason, so why not use it more often during
the year?

4. Have the pitcher who finishes the first game of a doubleheader start the
second game too

This is something you see happen from time to time in college baseball. If
there isn't too much time between the first and second games of a twin bill,
and the guy who just successfully closed things out feels good, teams can just
let him ride.

Now, there's certainly more time between games in an MLB doubleheader than
there is at the college level, but just have that pitcher toss a jacket on and
do some stretching to keep the warm and you're totally fine.


3. Swap in position players to pitch against opposing teams' pitchers

By swapping a position player to throw to the other team's pitcher, NL starters
could reduce their pitch counts and go deeper into games.

Wouldn't you want Max Scherzer to chill in left field for a batter while Bryce
Harper pitches to Clayton Kershaw -- particularly if that meant Scherzer could
save enough pitches to face Cody Bellinger one more time later in the game?

2. Have 15 non-categorized pitchers who all only throw one inning at a time

Wade Davis, Tony Cingrani and Bud Norris were all once established starters
available on either the trade or free agent market who found new teams that
developed them into awesome bullpen options.

What if a team built its entire pitching rotation that way: Fifteen, easily-
acquirable back-end starters who are way better when they only pitch one inning
at a time.

The potential benefits are endless. A team could rotate the 15 pitchers so
that each one throws three out of every five days to stay fresh. Hitters would
never see the same pitcher in a game twice.

1. Have extra relievers play the outfield and shuffle them in mid-at-bat,
creating one combination super-reliever

Back in 2014, the Astros moved lefty reliever Tony Sipp from the mound to the
outfield in the middle of an inning before bringing him back to the bump.

We think teams should take this a step further by swapping pitchers in and out
several times during an at-bat.

For instance, the Yankees take the field in the ninth with David Robertson on
the mound, Aroldis Chapman at first base and Dellin Betances in left field.
The batter fouls off a Robertson cutter for strike one. Betances and Robertson
switch spots and then Betances freezes the batter with a nasty curveball to
push the count to 0-2. Then Betances and Chapman swap, allowing Chapman to
blow some 102-mph cheese by the batter up in the zone.

Three pitches. One out. No chance.

These have been our Best 5 insanely bizarre pitching strategies. Have some
cockamamie ideas of your own? Tweet them at us @CespedesBBQ and @Cut4.

光芒使用OPEN醬的方法 衝擊了MLB (#相信史總)
於是這篇作者列出了五個更瘋狂?!的投手用法

5.牛棚日出來實戰 (#中華職棒領先全球)
4.雙重戰先發投手用同一人 (郭泰源:兩場完投沒問題)
3.輪到投手打擊派野手上來投省球數
2.15個投手一人負責一局的輪值方式
1.派一個投手當外野手 時不時進來投個幾球擾亂

這些點子目前看起來有點瘋狂 但說不定十年後會變成常態?

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在他的生涯中 有機會成為不錯的邊角內野手
但須克服脆弱的身體 避免成為DL常客
他仍有空間提升他平庸的打擊爆發力
但仍舊無法造成全壘打威脅

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※ blacklittle:轉錄至看板 Baseball                                 05/31 08:39
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推 earnformoney: MLB：為了加速比賽進行，嚴禁以上五種方式
推 mightymouse: 牛棚日實戰以前常常有人這樣偷不是嗎
推 eon4: 王建民生涯唯一一場救援就是牛棚日上場來的
推 tree748596: 第一、三點感覺很有趣
推 cd12631: 第一點不是很多球隊玩過了嗎
推 tfrence: 第二點滿酷的XD
推 UEIRUN: 只有第二點比較不可能有教練這樣做，其他應該沒問題
推 Zumayaaa: 一有嗎？有發生過一人投一球過？
推 b99202071: XDDD 用好用滿 物盡其用
→ jim1029: 第四個是說雙重賽第1場的最後一任投手續投第2場開場才對
推 lookers: 1.是當投手不用熱身喔 感覺就只有3.5比較可行?
推 ocean11: 怎麼感覺是反諷或氣話
推 AStigma: 1很酷啊XDDD