As the spooky season draws to a close this evening, let’s haunt ourselves with some numbers from the San Francisco Giants most recent, truly a gruesome and terrifying experience.
For all the caterwauling about platoons and openers or whatever, they used only 24 pitchers this season, and four of them were position players! Last year, it was 34 (with 5 being position players). They also used just 32 position players compared to 37 last season.
In terms of pitching platoons, I proved at the end of last season the opener strategy works.