Cardinals Bullpen Chart for VEB fans

in terms of pitch count. Like Perez who has come in two of the last three games and only pitched 1/3 of an inning each time for a grand total of nine pitches. He’d probably have a green light to go tonite if he needed to since his pitch counts were so low.

I agree with the two suggestions concerning those who pitch to a single batter or two batters.

esp for the LOOGYs

example: What color is Young Pitcher right now? Should Tony bring him in next inning?
Well, the chart indicates he’s yellow but almost a greenish yellow because he threw what, 7 pitches last night? Boyer is super green but I’d rather go with the Prez here.

Not sure how to get the data easily into excel (though exporting from some stat database might not be hard even if I can’t do it) but Excel now has conditional formatting. You could have it format the cell that the player’s name is in based on his pitch count the last few days or days rest, etc. Same could be done for the rotation so you know who could be bumped up to short rest or who is fully rested, etc. in the case of off days or rain out double headers, etc.

you sometimes hear that a pitcher is over-rested or rusty b/c they haven’t pitched in a while. i’m not sure if there is actually data to back this up, but you always hear announcers blame blown saves on the fact that closer X has not pitched for a week or you hear them talk about the manager trying to get a relief arm some work in to keep him sharp. with this in mind, perhaps there should be a brown (color of rust sort of) light for a pitcher who has not seen game action for a long time maybe 5 to 7 days or longer.

and not just for the cards.

i often click on the other team’s bullpen and say “crap, I have no idea who’s fresh and who we’re likely to face.” if the team is not one i’m familiar with, i sometimes don’t even know who the other four starters are. I bet you could run some not-very-complicated software to snag number of appearances and number of pitches thrown over the last several days to bump the freshest non-starter arms up to the top.

It’s a fun idea for someone to post right at the beginning of a new game thread. Get it in there early like the lineup usually is, and as someone else said, it’d be even better if it were done for both teams, although then that would double the work.

Boyer and Miller looked like they were going to pitch regardless of the score. Walters got in because of the blowout.