Should we have a weekly limit for relief appearances?

[Chicago White Sox (Commish)]

A team or two has said since we have a limit on how many starts starting pitchers can have per week, we should also have a limit on RP per week. Not having one makes RP too valuable compared to starting pitchers. (Not my opinion, just what I was told) So I'm all ears, do you guys agree and we should have limits or leave it how it is?

[Deleted]

RP's are very valuable in real life, and they should be important here. The Royals rode theirs to the world series. Also, you can limit starts based on predictability. You know who is starting and when barring rainouts. You don't know if/when relievers will pitch, including closers. You can't manage your RP's efficiently knowing you have a limit on usage but no way to know if a RP will get used.

I don't have time to be more eloquent and make a better sales pitch, but just because your 12 team league doesn't value good middle relievers and setups doesn't mean they should not be useful in a 30 team league. Because they're useful in the real life 30 team league.

[Chicago White Sox (Commish)]

Good point by Pirates about the predictability of SP vs RP appearances. Another idea I had was adjust the roster structure. Right now we have 3 SP, 2 RP, and 4 P spots in starting lineup, which means on a given day you could start 6 RP. What if we changed the roster to 4 SP 3 RP and 2 P? Basically removes 1 spot u could use a RP in. Just another idea and again if we did this we could make it so it doesn't go into affect until next year.

[Kansas City Royals (benzies10)]

I think this would be hard to regulate because a specialist like Chad Bradford back in the day might pitch to one right handed batter and call it a night as opposed to a long reliever going 3 innings yet both count as 1 "relief appearance". In my opinion those should not count the same. If relief pitchers were too valuable last year, I think we need to lower the point system for relievers opposed to a appearance limit.

[Chicago White Sox (Commish)]

Yeah and I really don't think they were too valuable. I mean only 28% of the Top 100 pitchers were relief pitchers. That doesn't seem to be bad to me. I think the biggest complaint was a team with 15 RP's has a big advantage over a team with 5. And this wasn't my complaint just wanted to hear everyone's opinion instead of 1 owner.

[Rangers]

That blown save is a very stiff penalty. SP don't get dinged for loses from what I can tell. If you give up a bomb for the blown save you dinged for the blown save and the run/s given up. 
It also gives another way to keep a team competitive and build a team if you don't have a top SP pitcher.

[Atlanta Braves (whiteyherzog)]

SP can get hit harder in outings they give up tons of ERs that RP don't get because they don't stay in as long. It's a pretty fair difference so far.