Skin Blues wrote:joseph227 wrote:Skin Blues wrote:They don't give any information about what years they used. There are very few pitchers throwing on short rest nowadays, to the point that it's a rounding error away from zero over the past 20 years or so (Price has thrown one such game in his career, for example). If they have enough data from pitchers throwing on 3 days rest, then it is likely from back in the 70's (or earlier) when the run scoring environment was much lower, whereas the 5 man rotation wasn't firmly in place until almost the 80's and '90s when run scoring skyrocketed. There is also the obvious selection bias, being that nowadays, only the best pitchers are asked to go on 3 days rest while scrubs usually throw on 4 or 5 days rest.
Exactly, there's no definitive evidence that 3 days rest vs 4 days rest has an effect either way.
So your purpose of posting that unsourced article was to prove that there's no definitive evidence?
The fact that David Price has made only one of his 213 career starts on short rest makes it pretty clear what his managers thought of the idea, given how much they stood to benefit from him being able to do so. It's also rare in the post-season as well, and when managers try it, it almost always comes with poor performance and very limited stamina.
First off the sample size is so small that you can't read much of anything from it and the performances listed were fine, it wasn't "almost always a poor performance" as you said.
And you're really going to cite the fact that Price had only make one short rest start as evidence that managers don't trust him in that situation? First off, no one goes on short rest in the regular season, and he has only made 5 postseason starts. He probably hasn't come up in a situation where he needed to make a start on short rest not that managers thought he couldn't do it.
