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Playing With Numbers: Every pitch counts

By AJ Mass
ESPN.com

Tuesday, June 3, 2008

In the beginning, pitch counts weren't en vogue in baseball. In days of yore, teams would trot out a rotation of, at most, three or four pitchers, day in and day out. If Walter Johnson started a game, you could pretty much assume he was going to finish it, and on his days off, he'd come in and pick up a multi-inning save or two to boot. Although the concept of pitch counts didn't exist back then and the records are sketchy, we can easily imagine that The Big Train threw several seasons worth of ...

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