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Anonymous
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OP. The line-up concern is valid, except that if I were the manager of this team, my pitchers would not be coddled little babies who don't have to take BP. Anyway, the concept is clearly defensive, and hopefully the set-up is limiting runs to an extent that the offensive drop-off doesn't lose games.
As for the rotation, any given team has pitchers who pitch more often than every five days. A good long reliever (if there is such a thing) can pitch three innings a day on consecutive days, even. It's a little weird, and maybe it wouldn't work all the time, but if you can get through a game on less than 150 pitches, and those two pitchers aren't getting shelled, you'll end up using less pitchers than if you went through a whole middle relief set-up.
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