In this post, Rox Pile’s resident “negative Nancy,” Aaron Hurt, poses a question that is likely lingering in many Rockies fans’ minds — with so many short outings from the Rockies rotation to start the year, is the bullpen already being used too much?
The short, not-obscure-at-all answer is: maybe. Through the first eight games of the season, the bullpen has already pitched 29 2⁄3 innings. That averages out to 3.7 innings per game, or about 3 2⁄3. Being the math wiz I am, I can deduce that means our rotation has averaged just 5 1⁄3 innings per start — not ideal.