1,458. That’s the number of innings you can expect a Major League pitching staff to have to toss throughout a 162 game season, give or take a few frames. That’s exactly 2.7 times the amount of innings teams had to prepare for in 2020’s 60-game affair, which seems like a difficult task to achieve. Teams were already more cautious than ever about pitcher workloads and the transition from a shortened season to a full 162-game slate gives them every reason in the book to take that approach to the extreme.
The amount of pitchers used per game has been steadily climbing since the early 1980’s, and it’s risen to unreal heights since 2015.