A Problem with Baseball Part 1 - The Los Angeles Dodgers used 42 different pitchers last year.

 

That was not to honor Jackie Robinson.

Heck the Marlins used 45 different pitchers.

As an old school collector these numbers are incomprehensible. I used to know the 20-25 players on a team because they would appear on Topps cards (thinking mostly the 1980s).

Now I can not comprehend who pitched for the Dodgers.

Some Stats 

The 1974 Dodgers used 13 pitchers and four of them did not get 10 Innings.

The 1979 Pittsburgh Pirates used 14 pictures - Chuck Tanner once famously said he would like to use a picture every 3 innings. In games 5 of the World Series he started Jim Rooker used him for the first five innings and then brought in Bert Blyleven and used him for the last 4 innings. The Pirates were down 3 games to 1 at the time. 

Earl Weaver used 12 pictures that year with 2 of them only getting 3 innings total.   

The reason why teams you all these pitchers because they now through so hard, the managers need to limit their innings, pitches, games etc.... All these pitchers have led to another problem.........