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Ten Good Things

Publication Date: June 20, 2006

There's no college baseball today. I know there have been other recent days when there was none (that's one of the reasons I'm not that fond of the postseason; there was at least one game every day from February 1 through May 28, and then the conference tournaments end and there's nothing the next day -- it's just not right). Today, though, you can see the end from here. To help ease that pain, here's my annual list of things that I really liked about this season:

Pitch Count Watch

Rather than keep returning to the subject of pitch counts and pitcher usage in general too often for my main theme, I'm just going to run a standard feature down here where I point out potential problems; feel free to stop reading above this if the subject doesn't interest you. This will just be a quick listing of questionable starts that have caught my eye -- the general threshold for listing is 120 actual pitches or 130 estimated, although short rest will also get a pitcher listed if I catch it. Don't blame me; I'm just the messenger.

Date   Team   Pitcher   Opponent   IP   H   R   ER   BB   SO   AB   BF   Pitches
6/18 North Carolina Robert Woodard Clemson 9.0 3 0 0 3 7 30 33 129

I didn't repeat it as a good story from last year, but the shortness of this list is once again a sign that things may be getting better.

(*) Pitch count is estimated. As always, I welcome actual pitch count corrections.

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