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Playing with Numbers: Hard-working pitchers

By A.J. Mass
Special to ESPN.com

Monday, July 21, 2008

As the second half of the baseball season gets into full swing, it's time to take another look at which starting pitchers are most likely to see their stats start to swoon as a result of throwing far too many pitches. Remember, it's far too simple to merely check a list of who has thrown the most total pitches and determine an arbitrary cutoff point of say, 2,100 pitches, and declare that those above the line are due for "hitting the wall" and a falloff in performance. It just doesn't work that ...

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