MLB Playoffs: Columnist Believes ‘Starting Pitching Is Over’ Forever After World Series

With few exceptions, during these Playoffs of MLB something that has attracted a lot of attention and it has set off alarms throughout Major League Baseball is the low level that starting pitchers have shown and in Game 1 of the World Series neither of the two starting pitchers made it past the third inning. for different reasons, with Astros’ Framber Valdéz getting beaten up and Bravo’s Charlie Mortons with a broken leg, with relievers again leading the game.

For The New York Post columinist Joel Sherman, what happened in Game 1 of the Fall Classic is simply “another nail in the coffin of the starting pitching” in MLB, where for the league and for the union it is a matter to be treated seriously. in the next negotiations of the joint contract, since both parties agree that the starting pitcher is an important part of the appeal of the game.

The reality is that in these playoffs there are few good performances by starting pitchers, like those Logan Webb had in the NLDS between the Los Angeles Dodgers and the San Francisco Giants, or the game between Alex Wood and Max Scherzer in that same game. series, in addition to the 8 innings that Framber Váldez pitched in the ALCS against the Red Sox.

In addition, Sherman mentions that with the multiple injuries that exist in both starting bodies such as Charlie Morton, Mike Soroka, Lance McCullers Jr., Justin Verlander just to mention a few, so the bullpens will be the dominant from now on in a World Series that does not have stars of yesteryear from the mound.

Gabriel Delgado

I started as a rookie on Al Bat in early 2018 and I am going into my third season covering Major League Baseball as a web reporter. I am a fan of the San Francisco Giants, a number one defender of Barry Bonds and a critic of the Los Angeles Dodgers. Fernando Tatis Jr., Juan Soto and Ronald Acuña are the future of baseball, Mike Trout is overrated, and the Astros deserved to be taken away from the World Series for cheating. Besides baseball, I also enjoy soccer, football, basketball, and just about any other game that includes a ball or a ball. I am also an amateur musician, penniless gamer and very nerdy. Graduated in journalism from the University of Guadalajara, I graduated in 2017. Born in the shrimp capital of the world, Escuinapa, Sinaloa. I lived in Australia for a while; i survived giant spiders, tasmanian devils and fought a kangaroo and didn’t die trying.

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