Geoff, The article about the A's pitchers always trying to throw complete games under Billy Martin doesn't at all look into the idea of pitch efficiency. When the pitchers talk about getting thru a complete game in about 130-140 pitches, that works out to about 15 pitches an inning. Take a look at Halladay's efficiency numbers when he completes a game, you'll find similar results. I firmly believe it is wrong to look at cumulative pitches thrown. Pitches per inning is much more important and the "magic number" is somewhere in the vicinity of 15. One hundred fifty pitches seems awful these days, but the first question that should be asked is... "did he go ten innings?"