How come every teams problem is pitching?

Question

Noone has a 1-5 Ace pitching staff or a bullpen that gives up 0 or 1 runs. Noone. How come pitching is always more of a problem then offense?

Answer 1

The pitcher starts everything. The best pitcher in baseball would get the best hitter out 1/3 times, thus no everyday player hitting over .400.

Answer 2

Pitchers are more liable to get put out for a long time,so if your ace goes down what do u do?
One example is the Braves pitching staff from the past 2 years.The guy who had just signed a huge contract for eight years (Hampton) went down.Suddenly u don't have enough money to sign another big name so your biting and scratching for anything u can get.But he,this year there 1 through 4 pitchers will be great.
1:Hudson
2:Hampton
3:Smolts
4:Glavine(hopefully)

Answer 3

Pitching is much more consistent than offense, a team can score 9 runs one day and 1 run the next simply due to pure luck (getting hard ground balls through with a runner on third v. hard ground balls strait to a fielder and the runner out at home). Sure pitchers have bad days but the best ones are relatively consistent.

Answer 4

Not enough pitching to go around. And pitching is the key to POSTSEASON success. You can win 80 games with bats alone. Perfect example. The Cardinals won 83 games the year they won the World Series. The only hitter they had that was consistent was Pujols. But they had dominant pitching. More recent example - Colorado. Their pitching is what got them to the World Series and they lost because their pitching fell apart against the Red Sox lineup.

Answer 5

One Word:

Expansion

Believe it or not, there are only so many people on the planet who can pitch effectively. When MLB expands, that pool becomes more and more diluted. Not to mention, parks are smaller, balls are winded tighter, the mound is lower and the hitters are naturally or unaturally stronge. So pitching comes at more of a premium. Today, a 4.0 ERA in the AL is astounding. Before all of the expansion, a 4.0 ERA was a trip to semi pro ball. If that.

Answer 6

Ancient baseball tradition.

One could research back to the beginnings of the sport, even pre-professional, and learn two consistent truthy* things:

1. No one ever has enough pitching.

2. No team or owner ever makes any money at this silly game.

* Not necessarily true, but held forth (and so dearly) as being true for public consumption; such things SOUND true. Being privately held, no baseball team ever has to show its books (well, very rarely, depending on labor disputes), but it is well worth noting that no team has gone bankrupt since... well, when?, the 1969 Pilots? And they came back just fine as the Brewers. Even without seeing the numbers, it's pretty easy to do THIS math at a high level.

Answer 7

the answer is simple:
there aren't enough pitchers to go around.

each team has 1 good ace, and the rest of the pitchers are average or below average.

that i disagree with, i think that there are plenty of good bullpens out there that can go without giving up a run. of course some are better than others, but most bullpens can usually get along.

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Answer 8

Because the hitting is soo much better than the pitching

Answer 9

Well some are good and some are bad i think you just need a group of 5 good pitchers who are consistent

Answer 10

that is wrong the yankees have a great rotation 1.wang 2.pettitte 3. chamberlin, and a mix of hughes, mussina, and kennedy