Ive asked this questions so many times to myself. Maybe this is the right time to ask you guys: why didnt Teams rotate more in american Sports and especcially in Baseball with soooo many games in one season! Especcially when you will make the playoffs with 10 games up or something.
Ive watched european Sports my whole life and substitutes are part of every game. It prevents injuries. It prevents fatique. Its good for the moral in the whole team, cause everyone is bigger part of success.
Why cant we play Turner, Sosa, Stott in a Rotation. For example every guy gets a rest every 3rd game.
I played a lot Out of the Park Baselball and i used to rotate like that in the regular season on some position i had good Talents in the second row for example.
The NBa and the NFL are starting more and more with load Management and subitutions from game to game. Why not the mlb?
MLB, in no small part because it's the oldest and most established of the Big 4 sports in the US, is generally the most resistant to change. There's a sense that the integrity of the game relies upon the rules, structures, and strategies being largely consistent from season to season, to the point where they put asterisks on single-season records that occurred over longer seasons for quite some time. It is damned hard to convince people in the sport to innovate or adopt strategies from elsewhere; look at how weird Bill Veeck seems, even today, for doing things just a little different than the next guy.
Baseball has adopted load management with respect to pitchers, and people bitch about that all the goddamn time. Just go back to the establishment of the first five-man rotations, and you'll hear people screaming their damn fool heads off about it. You get the same when teams started pulling starters after the second time through the lineup, or instituting strict pitch counts. People are a bit more tolerant of it these days, because it's been around much longer, but there's still that cadre of people asking why it's even necessary.
Eventually, baseball will adopt load management plans beyond platooning for position players, and people will scream bloody goddamn murder about that too, for years and years, but over time it will become normal. Give it 40, 50 years tops.