{"id":7873,"date":"2011-03-06T11:48:51","date_gmt":"2011-03-06T16:48:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.albany.com\/hr\/2011\/03\/hr-in-baseball---pitch-counts-for-pitchers.html"},"modified":"2011-03-06T11:48:51","modified_gmt":"2011-03-06T16:48:51","slug":"hr-in-baseball-pitch-counts-for-pitchers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.albany.com\/hr\/2011\/03\/hr-in-baseball-pitch-counts-for-pitchers\/","title":{"rendered":"HR in Baseball &#8211; Pitch Counts for Pitchers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I get annoyed every time I hear baseball announcers say &#8220;well, he&#8217;s up to 100 pitches now, I wonder when they are going to get someone up in the bullpen.&#8221; No pitcher is created equal, and I find the arbitrary number of 100 pitches to be one of those statistics that is used inappropriately to assess the wear and tear and ability of a pitcher to continue to perform at a high level.<\/p>\n<div>\n<\/div>\n<div>For example, a pitcher may throw 100 pitches, but may spread them out over 9 innings. Another pitcher may throw 60, and 52 of them came in one inning. Still another could throw 120, but each inning from innings 1 through 7 managed to throw less and less pitches each inning.<\/div>\n<div>\n<\/div>\n<div>Similar in business, basing your employees performance solely on sales dollars can be very inaccurate &#8211; one employee&#8217;s sales profit margins may be much higher than anothers, yet their sales volume is much lower.<\/div>\n<div>\n<\/div>\n<div>Don&#8217;t look at one figure to make your decisions on your employees; much like in baseball, how they got to the results may be much more telling than one number can indicate.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I get annoyed every time I hear baseball announcers say &#8220;well, he&#8217;s up to 100 pitches now, I wonder when they are going to get someone up in the bullpen.&#8221; No pitcher is created equal, and I find the arbitrary&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":147,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,13,17,45,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7873","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-employee-relations","category-feedback","category-hr-in-baseball","category-time-management","category-training"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\r\n<title>HR in Baseball - Pitch Counts for Pitchers - Robert Braathe&#039;s HR &amp; 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