And yet teams still need more than ten guys on the pitching staff. No chance they’d be able to reduce a pitching staff to one. In this game, them’s the breaks. The important thing is not that teams have to figure out how to boil down their staff to only the one guy who can get out major leaguers so he can pitch every inning in a season, but to ensure that their ten guys who can’t get out major leaguers does at least a marginally better job at it than all the other teams’ ten guys who can’t get out major leaguers. That’s how it’s always been, and that’s how it’ll always be.