You can tell baseball has reached mid-season because the Reds and other major league teams are addressing their plans for managing the innings load of their starting pitchers. Conventional wisdom is that teams shouldn’t allow young starters to throw a bunch more innings than the year before because it increases their susceptibility to injury. The Reds seem intent on using several young pitchers in the next few months with recent or upcoming promotions from the minor leagues. So innings limits may become a significant issue.
Brandon Finnegan has made 18 starts and pitched 101.1 innings. Combining his minor league and major league innings for the Reds and Kansas City Royals last year, Finnegan threw 105.