Ken Rosenthal just posted an article, this is an exerpt about Snell The case for Snell For all the talk about how Blake Snell doesn't throw enough innings, his agent, Scott Boras, points out several recent examples of teams valuing elite talent over proven durability in long-term deals for starting pitchers. Consider three pitchers who signed in the past 15 months, and their innings totals over the four seasons before those deals. These numbers include the postseason and the shortened 2020 Covid campaign. • Tyler Glasnow, 310 2/3. Received a five-year, $136.562 million extension with the Dodgers. • Jacob deGrom, 434 1/3. Signed a five-year, $185 million free-agent contract with the Texas Rangers. • Carlos Rodón, 355 2/3. Signed a six-year, $162 million free-agent deal with the Yankees. Over the past four seasons, Snell has thrown far more innings than any of those pitchers: 530, including postseason. Rodón, a Boras client coming off a disappointing first season in New York, is probably not the best advertisement for teams interested in Snell. Neither is deGrom, who underwent his second Tommy John surgery after making only six starts for the Rangers. But Snell, since returning from a left adductor strain in May 2022, has made 59 consecutive starts. Let's not compare Snell to Old Hoss Radbourn just yet: Thirty-one pitchers carried greater workloads in the past four seasons, starting with another Boras client, Gerrit Cole, at 702 2/3 innings. But in an era when few starters pitch deep into games, some team will value the innings Snell pitches and not worry about the ones he doesn't.