This discussion will cover statistics of the amount of times our starting pitchers face the opponent’s batting order during a game. But first, a background of how starting pitchers have pitched fewer innings in recent history:
As most are aware, the style of pitching that we see today is not how it has been for most pitchers in the history of the game. The beginnings of the shift to the radar gun era of judging pitchers started about 2003. QuesTec was a company hired by MLB for pitch tracking technology for the purpose of judging home plate umpire’s performance.