Blake Snell of The Rays makes his MLB debut today

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A young guy coming off of a 21-5 , 1.89 era season doesn't come around often, that's why they locked him up for 5/50, he'd get a lot more if free to deal with the other 29 teams. It works perfectly for both parties , Snell is set for life with a guaranteed 50M, TB gets him for 5 years in his prime
 
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I dont know how you take your ace out of a 1 run game after 6 innings and only 82 pitches. Serves them right to lose that game. He is your ace for a reason. He should definitely be in the game close to 100 pitches if he has no trouble. He definitely shouldnt be taken out at the start of the 7th inning at 82 pitches. When in the first 6 innings he gave up 1 walk and 1 hit.

I had Toronto today and got lucky. I completely agree with spider.
 

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Today's game is so different, teams usually have 8 relief pitchers and a guy that only pitches the 9th, 8th,etc. A complete game is almost impossible, there probably hasn't been this season ? How many last year, maybe 10 ?

In the old days a starter was expected to go the full 9 innings and also hit before the dh existed, sometimes a guy would pitch both games of a double header and they pitched every 4th day, not 5th.

Now you need an opener and the starter has done his job by going 5 innings, maybe 6 on a good day.

Even in the 70's a complete game wasn't a rarity. Teams almost always use 13 of 25 roster spots on pitchers, leaving a 3 man bench

A 2nd catcher that really can't be used

An infielder/ utility man to cover any infield spot

And a 4th outfielder that might also be capable of playing 1B in a pinch

Why not just up the roster limit to 30 ? The player's union would like that. It would pass easily, shorten the season a little bit also
 

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Verlander should have won the Cy Young last year. Houston kicked his ass first game.
 

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Today's game is so different, teams usually have 8 relief pitchers and a guy that only pitches the 9th, 8th,etc. A complete game is almost impossible, there probably hasn't been this season ? How many last year, maybe 10 ?

In the old days a starter was expected to go the full 9 innings and also hit before the dh existed, sometimes a guy would pitch both games of a double header and they pitched every 4th day, not 5th.

Now you need an opener and the starter has done his job by going 5 innings, maybe 6 on a good day.

Even in the 70's a complete game wasn't a rarity. Teams almost always use 13 of 25 roster spots on pitchers, leaving a 3 man bench

A 2nd catcher that really can't be used

An infielder/ utility man to cover any infield spot

And a 4th outfielder that might also be capable of playing 1B in a pinch

Why not just up the roster limit to 30 ? The player's union would like that. It would pass easily, shorten the season a little bit also

An article was just referencing how complete games are vanishing

1968: 900 complete games
1988: 624 complete games
2018: 42 complete games
 

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