It’s a debate that is raging throughout the baseball world as analytics increasingly becomes a factor in how franchises evaluate talent. How do you manage a young pitcher’s workload to balance their value to the team with preserving their arms for the future?
The Boston Red Sox find themselves in such as predicament with a pair of rookie pitchers as we head into the final stretch of the season. Henry Owens and Eduardo Rodriguez are expected to have bright futures as staples of this rotation, but with little left to play for in 2015, the Red Sox have started to ease their workload this month.