You bring up a good point which made me think of another: this whole "pitch count" management of the game really irks the crap out of me. How many times do we have to see a pitcher doing really well going into the sixth or seventh inning and getting pulled because his pitch count hits 80-90?
Even worse, I lost count this year every time a pitcher got pulled after five innings. FFS, I'm really not liking any of these changes to baseball, being done in the name of "speeding up the game" because the stupid, worthless millenials don't like a game that lasts more than two-hours and thirty minutes?
I used to agree with you about pitch counts, but now I’m not so sure. Look at how many pitchers these days have fastballs in the high 90s. That used to be a rarity. I’ve come to accept the fact that the human arm is now being stressed to the point of its physical limits, and what you’re seeing is surely a symptom of that.