<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" />Another theory I have on a potential increase in the rate of no hitters is in the last several years pitch count mania for starting pitchers has become a HUGE part of managerial tactics. Hang with my logic here...with pitchers being pulled for no other reason than pitch count...they stay fresher, longer, during the course of a long season. The complete game is almost as rare as a no hitter these days. So the propensity on any specific start is microcosmically higher for a no-no because the pitcher is fresher since he didn't go 130 pitches in his last start. He got yanked at or around 100...almost no matter what. So they make their next start...and baseball's CODE is if a pitcher has a no-no going unless his arm falls off, the manager ain't pulling him. In baseball THE CODE trumps all. So the pitcher stays in...and gets his no-no and spot in Cooperstown. They do still get a place in Cooperstown when they pitch a no hitter? Or am I misremembering?
