PITTSBURGH -- With all of the recent discussion about the current Pirates' rotation, Neal Huntington addressed with the media how the organization has approached all of the factors in determining pitchers' workload.
Although he wouldn't expand completely on all of the Pirates' methods for evaluation, Huntington said that the organization is "trying to use science to refine our art."
"You can look at a six-inning, 100-pitch outing then look at another six-inning, 100-pitch outing, and they could be completely different in terms of the stress levels and intensity," Huntington said. "There are a huge number of variables that we factor in as we are working to identify when we should begin to limit where our young pitchers are going.