Let’s settle the “days of rest debate” finally.

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It's 4 days rest.

But, it doesn't matter. You can't invent rest by re-labeling it.

Standard rest for a starter in college baseball is 6 days (by the standard definition) or 7 days by your definition. It's the same amount of rest.

A lot of people try and justify short rest by redefining it.

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you can count the day of the game as a rest period

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How does this even make sense?

You can count it if you want, it’s just that no one associated with baseball counts it that way.

So if you do choose to do it then you have to tack on another day to whatever you consider “normal”. Example, Anderson pitches Friday and the following Friday for a “normal” week of 6 days rest. If you want to count the day he pitches as “rest”, which is not correct, then you would have to say his “normal” is 7 days.

You can’t start the clock until the player has 1 sleep

There isn’t a debate lol

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Inevitably, it's going to be so that he can justify a decision to pitch on short rest by pretending it isn't short rest. It's coming.

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It originated in the Anderson/Eyanson thread, he says if Eyanson pitched Friday it would be 5 days rest.

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It originated in the Anderson/Eyanson thread, he says if Eyanson pitched Friday it would be 5 days rest.

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told ya

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You don't count the day he pitches as a "day of rest"

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A day is a 24 hour period. From Sunday at 8:00 pm to Friday at 8:00 pm is 120 hours. 120 hours = 5 days.

Some of you are counting full calendar days.

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As far as I know, you can count the day of the game as a rest period, some disagree.

So if a pitcher pitches on Sunday afternoon and then is scheduled to pitch on Friday afternoon, how many days of rest did he get?

I say 5. Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday.

What say you?

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There is no debate, the terminology is always used the same by coaches and the baseball media. What you described is 4 days of rest. You are welcome to argue if that is correct usage or not, but it effectively means the number of days a player has not pitched in a game.

As an example and a starting point, if you pitch in a game today, then pitch in a game again tomorrow, is the pitching with no rest or pitching with one day of rest? Most would say that is pitching with no rest. So, if you extrapolate that out (pitch today, don't pitch tomorrow, pitch the next day is one day's rest, for example), you see the number of days between starts is the number of days of rest in the accepted method used by all baseball staff and media.

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There is no debate, at least not amongst people that know the game.

Eyanson threw last night. If he throws on Saturday he will be pitching on 5 days rest (Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday being the rest days).

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Alright, I just think it’s stupid.

It’s semantics.