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Originally Posted by D. Bergin
There's been untold numbers of studies done on the effectiveness of starting pitchers in the early, the middle, and the late innings, and outside of a few anecdotal outliers it's pretty cut and dry. As far as the "Old-Timers", it was a completely different game, with different ballparks, equipment, circumstances, and strategies. You may not like present day strategy, but they wouldn't do it if it didn't work.
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Here's the question I would like answered, and it shouldn't take much to come with the answer, but I didn't when I googled it: Since the advent of the short starters and multiple relief pitchers, are fewer runs being scored in the later innings?