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Current season, almost over.  A few swingmen are cut off at the top of the table, those naturally have plenty of AB's.  The list starts with the relievers without starts and the most AB's. 



While some are genuine long relievers, like Wes Gardner, even they are sometimes used to log one or two outs and then get an at-bat.  Example of that in the third picture, where Pittsburgh's Jose Medina pitched to one batter before batting to lead off the bottom 9th for his team.  Yes, there were pinch-hitters readily available. 



Looking at the batting logs for about 20 of the top-AB'ed relievers, more than half of them has AB's frequently starting in July, with almost none from the start of the season into July.  This is true for decent teams as well as for Wes Gardner and Gabriel Caro, who are on the horrendous Loggers that make a run for 110 losses with the worst pitching staff I've seen in a while.  Even those two have the majority of AB's come in the last about two months played, or in other words, after the release of 16.10.42 ... Attached Images

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