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I'm the stick in the mud on this stuff. I'd much rather have my three best relievers letting it rip for one inning a night than let a guy sit for 10 minutes then come back out with subpar stuff. Unless you've got Rivera in your pen. Hillman used to do that stuff.. he'd bring Soria in to pitch part of the 8th inning, then wonder why he didn't have his best stuff and blow the save in the 9th. Drove me nuts.
But I also believe that some pitchers don't react well to the pressure of the 9th inning sometimes either... which admittedly goes against the sabermetric thinking that all these guys are robots and interchangeable pieces. Sometimes it matters, sometimes it doesn't... really depends on the mental makeup of the person.
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