This is the Franchise we're talking about, after all...

Also, I guess I have selective memory and forgot about Liriano's injury history--trying to wipe that trade from my memory probably had a residual, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind effect.

The money is surely a concern; pitchers are pretty fragile to start with, and as they get more expensive, the more precautions managers will be encouraged to take to protect the investment.

Related to that, there's more competition for talent than there used to be, so it may be harder to find top-flight pitchers.  Populations are greater today, and there's a lot more international scouting than there used to be; but there's pretty good money in other professional sports (and even in non-sports fields), and that undoubtedly sucks up some of the talent.

The game has become much more about power pitching and power hitting; it's possible that the kind of pitching guys do today is harder on their arms.

Sports medicine has improved tremendously, and we know more about how pitchers get injured.  If it happens to be the case that the chance of serious injury, or even just ineffectiveness down the road, is greater for guys who throw 120+ pitches, it's silly to keep asking them to do that.  It was less silly when nobody really knew better.

Baseball managers are pretty risk-averse, as a group.  Now that pretty much everyone has adopted the starter-reliever-setup guy-closer model, it would take a bold man to send his starter out for eight or nine innings regularly.  IIRC, the Royals tried that a few seasons ago and it worked OK for the first half of the season, and then their starters totally fell apart in the second half.

For instance, Juan Marichal NEVER made over 40 starts, and he made as many as 40 only once -- in 1963.

I do believe that like the old-time pitchers, Tim could pitch relief on his day to throw between starts.

I also believe that should the Giants mistakenly decide to make him a closer, he could pitch almost every day as long as they limted him to only one inning.

The only bad thing about having seen Tim's motion is that it makes the others seem less than perfect.  I mean, I could watch that flowing motion all day long -- from any angle.