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Many in the baseball industry agree that the decreasing durability, and availability, of starting pitchers is a problem worth solving.
Few can reach consensus on the best solution.
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Data published in May by The Athletic showed a dramatic decrease in the percentage of starts lasting six innings. In 2014, 63.5 percent of starts lasted six innings or longer. That percentage decreased each of the next five seasons, plummeted to 31.8 percent during the pandemic-shortened 2020 season, then leveled off around 40 percent each of the last three years.
At the same time, the same report showed the percentage of innings thrown by starters never dipped below 65 percent until 2016. It hasn’t been above 65 percent since.
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