Really? Yeah, of course it's not a problem. He's only thrown the second most pitches in the league this year.He's being overworked, again. Saying he has the second most pitches throw in the league is a little deceptive though. Of the pitchers who have thrown 130 fewer pitches than Gallardo so far, only 1 of them has an equal amount of starts, and that's Chris Carpenter. Still, that will leave him on the high side of the top ten when they all get their next start, but that still leaves him on roughly the same pace as Chris Carpenter, Ubaldo Jimenez, Roy Halladay, Tim Lincecum, Ryan Dempster and Brett Myers. I guess I'm just willing to trust the system the Brewers are clearly investing in, with bringing in Peterson, doing those scans they did earlier in the year that showed Gallardo was a low injury risk. They've done what the needed to in the past with Yo and Manny with watching their innings pitched and so forth, and have worked to keep their development on the trusted path so far. I think it's pretty brazen to just assume Macha would be willing to jeopardize a kid's future just to try to save his job. That assumes a lot about the makeup of a man to say that, and something we don't have any basis to know. However, I would have to assume if Peterson and/or Melvin thought it was of concern, and Macha did it anyway, doing so isn't going to help save his job then either, if he would be willing to jeopardize Gallardo like that.