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 | | A couple of a weeks back--I think it was during Roger Clemens' first try for his 300th win--I heard Rick Sutcliffe talk about how when he was pitching, no one worried about pitch counts, and how he once threw some very high number of pitches in a game. |
 | | Sutcliffe's useful career spanned the years 1979-1994, and for much of that period it was common for a team to play lousy hitters, especially at certain positions. |
 | | The differences between the portions of Sutcliffe's and Clemens' careers that do not overlap, in terms of difficulty for pitchers, are extreme, and they illustrate quite nicely the point: baseball has changed. |
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