If you are a purist who thought the fifth inning was too early to make a call to the bullpen during the MLB playoffs, brace yourself.<\/p>\n
Now the calls are being made in July instead of waiting until the October drama even starts.<\/p>\n
And people used to think that 1940s and 1950s manager Eddie Stanky took too long to get to the mound before making a pitching change!<\/p>\n
The final two days of the MLB trade deadline spoiled the plotline for October because contenders left middle-of-the-rotation starters dangling on the market in favor of hoarding closers and setup relievers who haven\u2019t pitched in a high-leverage game all season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"If you are a purist who thought the fifth inning was too early to make a call to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":39386,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[435],"tags":[49,48,462,11215,475,3980,28496,477,82,2089],"class_list":["post-39385","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-mlb","tag-mlb-trade-deadline","tag-new-york-mets","tag-new-york-yankees","tag-post-sports-newsletters","tag-san-diego-padres","tag-sports","tag-sports-plus"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39385","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39385"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39385\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/39386"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39385"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39385"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39385"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}