Now baseball is not my cup of tea, but that didn't stop this thought from popping in to my head. Say it's the 7th or 8th inning and you've got a 2 good relievers ready to pitch, a righty and a lefty. And you want to create favorable matchups depending on the batter's favored hand. But the opposing line up has left handed and right handed batters staggered. Do you just live in your best reliever for all of the batters, because you don't want to take him out?
Why not bring in the lefty for a batter, but move your right handed pitcher to Right Field. And then after that batter, swap move the lefty to Right Field. I beleive you could keep making defensive substitutions and keep both pitchers in the game. In the event that a ball does go to right field, I'm sure the average pitcher could field it, and have the arm strengh to throw it in.
Actually, that raises an interesting question. Let's create an All-star skills competition, featuring only pitchers, trying to throw runners out from 3rd on a sac fly. Now that's testing your pitch placement.
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