Something Noteworthy is Going on With Seattle Mariners' George Kirby
The M's hurler was pulled after 80 pitches in a win over the Cincinnati Reds on Monday night, but why?
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I am wondering, and I wanna make it clear this is purely just me thinking out loud.
I am wondering in general kind of what's going on with the George Kirby workload, because something seems a little bit off to me in the George Kirby workload.
Now, George Kirby threw an absolute gem, I believe eight innings against the Los Angeles Angels on June 29th, as I recall.
And then he had nine days off, and we didn't see him again until the Marlins game on July 8th, I believe.
I'm, as, as I'm talking to you, I'm gonna verify the game log here.
But, so that Angels game was July, yeah, it was June 29th, eight innings.
Then we didn't see him again until July 8th.
Now, there were, there were some off days in there, but the Mariners Look, off days were in there, and the Mariners used a six-man rotation, so that inherently is going to push back the amount of time in which you pitch, right?
That's gonna increase your layoff kind of no matter what.
So that's not inherently weird in any way.
But the Mariners did re-slot Brian Wu in front of him, right?
Brian Wu pitched after George Kirby in that Angels series, but before Geo- George Kirby in that Miami series.
I took note of it then and said, "Hmm, that's interesting
