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Originally Posted by Aaron's Aron
I know that he will gain experience at the position and gain a rating there too, but I meant would his actual ratings improve. I would understand if a guy was a bad infielder in general that he wouldn't gain great Arm, Range, etc. ratings in the outfield, but I feel like he would have to gain some ratings. I would think this would be especially true if the player is a great infielder.
For example, I took a random average defender at LF and set his experience at 1B to 200. He still has a 0 (on 1-100 scale) position rating at 1B because he has 0 ratings on all of the infield ratings. That makes sense because I just went in and changed it from 0 to 200 all at once. However, I feel like if he actually played enough games for his experience to go from 0 to 200 that he would have some defensive ratings in the infield. A guy doesn't play 200 or 250 games and have no infield ratings, even if it isn't their natural position. Do you get what I'm asking then? I know for some players they might be able to learn better than others, and I am not saying every player could go from have 0 in all his defensive ratings to 70 or 80, but I feel like it should be possible. At least for some. Again, Billy Hamilton moved to the outfield from shortstop and played great defense there. While not every player does it, some certainly do.
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if he gains any improvements to his IF ratings, they would be minimal and still make him a crap 1B. The only thing that will make his position rating change is his experience.
The best way to look at it is if a player has crappy OF ratings, he will always have a crappy OF position ratings no matter how much experience he gets out there.