Price not a fan of limiting or shutting down pitchers

PITTSBURGH — With a few young pitchers on his pitching staff this season, Reds manager Bryan Price has been asked often about pitch counts and innings limits. It’s rarely a topic he enjoys delving into too greatly.

On Saturday, Price was asked if reliever Michael Lorenzen would be faced with such limitations or caution next season should he move back into the rotation. Price replied directly with complete candor about a larger issue that has bugged him.

“I’ve spent a lot of time thinking about this question,” Price said. “I don’t think it’s a problem. I think the problem is that what we’ve done with baseball is we’ve gotten to the point [where] we think we’re solving our arm issues by decreasing innings and pitch workload and there’s nothing in the data that suggests we’ve [done] anything other than to continue to cut open the arms of young pitchers that we are extremely cautious with, extremely cautious, to a fault cautious. And it is not helping.

“My personal opinion is I …

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