Suppose you are a baseball manager, and your team’s usual closer is unavailable for tonight’s game. What do you do? If you are like 90% of MLB managers, then you basically just move everyone up a slot: Your usual 8th inning guy becomes your closer for the night; your 7th inning guy pitches the 8th; and so on.
I feel like you need to grapple with the Andrew Miller run from 2016. Wasn't that an instance of a manager deploying his most talented player in an atypical way in order to maximize his contributions and the rest of the pitching staff?
I feel like you need to grapple with the Andrew Miller run from 2016. Wasn't that an instance of a manager deploying his most talented player in an atypical way in order to maximize his contributions and the rest of the pitching staff?