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<blockquote data-quote="DecaturJacket" data-source="post: 1074180" data-attributes="member: 7369">You fail to see that it&#039;s how he&#039;s used that is a problem, not a specific game. If the plan is to keep using him in relief, there may never be a situation in a weekend where he can come in and give us 6 2/3 innings in relief and us get a win. He could give up no runs, hell no hits, and we could lose because we&#039;re already down. At least if he&#039;s starting and he does that, the worst case is that it&#039;s 0-0 when he comes out. As we start playing better opponents, the odds that we have leads decrease and you&#039;re playing a game within a game looking for the best spot to use him. If you start him you&#039;re already maximizing his use in those crucial innings.The likelihood of us being able to ball out and get leads early, so that even if Brady or whoever starts gives up a bunch of runs in their 2-3 innings that they give us we&#039;re ok because we can bring Patel in with a lead is significantly less against the much more talented squads coming up.The only way to guarantee he gets meaningful innings (in other words innings that directly give us the best chance to win) is getting him in there when it&#039;s 0-0. It&#039;s the whole reason you start best pitchers. Otherwise, everybody would just free frawl willy nilly put their best pitchers in here and there as they please. Patel specifically on this team is one of two guys who have shown that they can pitch well consistently over a stretch of more than 2-3 innings.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="DecaturJacket, post: 1074180, member: 7369"] You fail to see that it's how he's used that is a problem, not a specific game. If the plan is to keep using him in relief, there may never be a situation in a weekend where he can come in and give us 6 2/3 innings in relief and us get a win. He could give up no runs, hell no hits, and we could lose because we're already down. At least if he's starting and he does that, the worst case is that it's 0-0 when he comes out. As we start playing better opponents, the odds that we have leads decrease and you're playing a game within a game looking for the best spot to use him. If you start him you're already maximizing his use in those crucial innings. The likelihood of us being able to ball out and get leads early, so that even if Brady or whoever starts gives up a bunch of runs in their 2-3 innings that they give us we're ok because we can bring Patel in with a lead is significantly less against the much more talented squads coming up. The only way to guarantee he gets meaningful innings (in other words innings that directly give us the best chance to win) is getting him in there when it's 0-0. It's the whole reason you start best pitchers. Otherwise, everybody would just free frawl willy nilly put their best pitchers in here and there as they please. Patel specifically on this team is one of two guys who have shown that they can pitch well consistently over a stretch of more than 2-3 innings. [/QUOTE]

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