re: Mainieri's bullpen tactics

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 want to start off by saying that by no means do i think i know all about baseball so if im wrong about this please tell me, BUT.... 

When a pitcher comes out of the bullpen and is pitching well, why doesnt Mainieri stick with him? (im not talking about this game specifically but throughout the year and in years past.) 

multiple times this year Person has come in in the 8th and had a 1-2-3 inning where he seemed unhittable and then coach decides to bring in the closer anyway. 

in my eyes this problem is two fold. 1) i dont think its ever a good idea to pull a pitcher that is doing well because in a game as mental as baseball, you never really know what youre gonna get from the next guy. 2)it kind of wastes our bullpen arms for the rest of the weekend. yes i know that an inning of work doesnt make a player unusable the next day but at least this year, Stallings has struggled on the second night almost every time he has been called on to close two nights in a row. 

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I agree with you . One advantage however, is the opponent (a normal Friday night opponent) doesn't get many looks at any one pitcher . As you get through the lineup a few times, the batters will sometimes start to "solve" a pitcher. So working a pitcher only through a few batters enables you to come back with these same guys again on Saturday and/or Sunday.

Plus everybody knows how PM loves his "matchup pitching"