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I don't get it!!

This thread is not about Randy Johnson. It's about suspending a pitcher for 5 games.

BIG F'ing Deal. He will miss 1 start ( or get bumped a couple of days) since a pitcher only pitches every 5th start.

Unit suspension..

Anyone think this means anything??? Or is it just blowing smoke in the stanky hole???

I agree completly... He should have been suspended for his next 5 starts.

He wont miss a start. They will just bump his start back a game. I think it is pointless to suspend starting pitchers 5 games, cause they maybe miss one game that they would have pitched.

4 king guy wrote:I don't get it!!?

Starting pitchers usually get a 5 game suspension for what fielders would recieve a one game suspension for...kinda sorta. Generally an apples/oranges comparison, since pitchers generally get whacked for beaning guys, and fielders it's often a fight or getting a little too jiggy with the ump.

Position players take days off too, and their suspensions can be worked into the platooning.

A 5 game suspension for not even hitting a guy? Nice.

Dinsdale wrote: Starting pitchers usually get a 5 game suspension for what fielders would recieve a one game suspension for...kinda sorta. Generally an apples/oranges comparison, since pitchers generally get whacked for beaning guys, and fielders it's often a fight or getting a little too jiggy with the ump.

Position players take days off too, and their suspensions can be worked into the platooning.

I'm not disagreeing with you, but I'm trying to think of examples and I'm not finding any. Position players seem to get 10 days for fighting, maybe 3-5 days for swearing at an ump. So it does seem to me that suspending a pitcher for 5 games is pointless.

Though I do agree with your last statement re: platooning. Although, unless you're Barroid Bonds, not many position players get five days off in a row.