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FLB: Breakdown Candidates

By Tristan H. Cockcroft
ESPN.com

Thursday, March 22, 2007

In this day of pitch counts, 12-man pitching staffs and relief specialists, a pitcher's health is more closely managed than perhaps at any other time in baseball history. The 2006 season, in fact, might have been the "year of the pitch count"; only seven times all season did a pitcher throw 130 or more pitches, and no one topped 138. Plus, in only 39.9 percent of all big league starts did a pitcher throw more than 100 pitches; that's down from 42.1 percent the season before. Teams today are mor ...

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