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Major-league baseball should return to the four-man pitching rotation. Jim Bunning pitched on three days’ rest most of his Hall-of-Fame career. The ball weighed exactly the same then as it does now and traveled the same 60 feet 6 inches to the plate. Blame nichemanship for today’s pitch-by-numbers 11-man staffs and the frequent three pitcher moves (right, left, right most often) you see in the end game to retire three hitters. Fans moan when a guy with overpowering stuff is replaced in the ninth by a closer. But it’s all as structured as Latin grammar and, to paraphrase Caesar’s Gallic Wars, “Omnis bullpennae en sex partes divisa est.” All bullpens are divided into six parts.
