What Bullpen Day means
A bullpen day is when a team skips a traditional starting pitcher entirely and instead strings together multiple relief pitchers to cover the game. It requires its own separate handicapping approach from a standard starting-pitcher matchup, since bullpen day outcomes tend to be more volatile and harder to project using a single pitcher's season-long statistics.
Key points
- A bullpen day is when a team skips a traditional starting pitcher entirely and instead strings together multiple relief pitchers to cover the game.
- It requires its own separate handicapping approach from a standard starting-pitcher matchup, since bullpen day outcomes tend to be more volatile and harder to project using a single pitcher's season-long statistics.
Example and context
In practice
It requires its own separate handicapping approach from a standard starting-pitcher matchup, since bullpen day outcomes tend to be more volatile and harder to project using a single pitcher's season-long statistics.
Related glossary terms
These terms sit in the same part of the betting vocabulary and are useful to read next.
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