"Now that the season has started and we started seeing what we had and kind of how our bullpen looks, we figure that Myers gives us a bigger arm at the back end of our bullpen,'' Manuel said. "We think Myers will, over the course of the year, get in 65-70 games, probably. As a starter, it would be 35."
Coming from Uncle Charlie this wasn't much of a shock but for serious this is the dumbest move I've ever seen. It's simple math and I'm not sure how even someone like Charlie got it wrong. He trots out this bs about instead of only playing in 35 games he will now play in 65-70. What he's obviously overlooking is the number of innings he's missing out on. Instead of pitching in 185-215 innings Myers will now at most pitch 75 innings. Would you rather have your best pitcher pitch more or less?
Even if we were to take the fact that the Phillies are having their best pitcher pitch less out of the equation you have to take into account how bad this will mess up Myers both mentally and physically. Pitchers are creatures of habit and if you mess that up there's a chance they might never come back. So lets just panic because we had a bad start and possibly mess up our ace (who we just resigned this off-season to a nice deal) for the rest of his career. Not to mention the kind of damange he might do to his arm by going balls out 3-5 times a week.
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