It is the number of innings he wants his starting pitchers to throw in 2013.
Starting pitchers working into the seventh (or beyond) allow managers to bypass the middleman altogether.
The starting pitchers are Houston right-hander Roy Oswalt and left-hander Mark Buehrle of the Chicago White Sox.
Two ailing starting pitchers, Johan Santana and Shaun Marcum, were expected to miss the beginning of the season.
Entering Monday, Mets starting pitchers had combined for a 2.39 ERA, which ranked second in the majors behind Washington.
He liked to use four starting pitchers instead of the currently fashionable five.
None of the starting pitchers lasted past the fifth inning, forcing manager Tony LaRussa to get creative with the bullpen.
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That includes their two top starting pitchers, Roy Halladay and Roy Oswalt, plus key relievers Brad Lidge, Jose Contreras and J.
For much of the spring, the question du jour was how the Yankees would find spots for their various starting pitchers.
Barring an injury to one of the Mets projected starting pitchers, Wheeler likely will start the season at Triple-A Las Vegas.
The parameters were rather basic in nature: seven starting pitchers, two closers, two catchers, seven infielders, seven outfielders, two coaches and one manager.
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One of the two starting pitchers acquired by the Royals in an offseason trade, Davis has yet to find solid footing in Kansas City.
"There's a perception that we're in on a couple dozen starting pitchers, three dozen outfielders and infielders, 17, 18 catchers, " GM Ned Colletti said during the winter meetings.
Minimum standards are 150 innings per year for starting pitchers, 50 innings for relief pitchers, and 300 at-bats for everyday players, for at least four of the past five seasons.
Few players in history have recovered from this type of procedure once, let alone twice, casting significant doubt on the future of one of the best starting pitchers of this generation.
Among all starting pitchers who have pitched at least as many innings as he has, only three have bettered his 10.4 strikeouts per nine innings, and just four did so through age 24.
And to make things more complicated for Penney, Macy's attorneys argued Monday in court that they want to stop Penney from selling plastic tableware like glasses and pitchers that were just starting to be sold on Penney's website.
To find them, we looked at the regular season OPS and the salary of each starting active roster player on each playoff team, excluding pitchers.
Those two pitchers join Freddy Garcia, Phil Hughes, Ivan Nova and CC Sabathia in a solid starting rotation (Hughes or Garcia will likely move to the bullpen this season).
Maybe 40-ish pitchers Pettitte and Hiroki Kuroda will stay healthy and team with CC Sabathia to form a solid starting rotation.
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