Because the baseball season is a long one with a total of 162 games, it can take a toll on the players during the middle of the season. Players may lose motivation and start to tire out from playing so many games. Not only this, but with the blistering summer heat coaches are more inclined to rest players in games in the middle of the season because they seem “meaningless”.
In order to prevent this from happening, coaches often bring up younger prospects to play. Coaches put in newer pitchers in the middle of the season so the new pitchers can potentially get into the major leagues of baseball and be apart of the everyday roster. It is very advantageous to roster players from a team who is facing a younger pitcher because younger players do not have much experience and they are usually not as skilled has an average major league pitcher. This a very interesting daily fantasy baseball strategy to utilize. Granted, this takes a large amount of research and prospect watching in order to target the correct youngsters to stack your team against. Younger pitchers also lack the skills and tricks that regular major league pitchers have which can give your team an advantage. When you have a new pitcher getting called up for the first time, their ability to play is unpredictable.
Younger pitchers are also more prone to making mistakes due to lack of experience.They may play very well one time , yet play badly in another game. This is advantageous to fantasy baseball teams because new pitchers are not as consistent in their pitching skills as seasoned major league pitchers. Younger pitchers don’t have as much experience as they have just started in the leagues, they must build up their repertoire in order to climb up to the major leagues. It is interesting to see younger pitchers face off against teams with experienced pitchers because it add pressure to the younger pitchers to do well for their team. When the younger pitcher is not as skilled, the other team has a much better chance of winning the game if the opposing team has a seasoned pitcher on the team.
