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Originally Posted by el_habes
Thanks for the reply. I didn't know that minor league BABIPs were higher than in MLB IRL (aside from the PCL) - I assumed poorer fielding would be offset by poorer hitting. After looking at the team pitching statistics, they're a bit high across the board - generally all in the .320-.350 range, but not as egregious compared to other teams. I hadn't thought of poor fielding, and I have a hunch that might be the case. I tend to just set my lineups/fielding to "Ask Manager to set all lineups" but I'll take a closer look at my minor league lineups and at how my pitching staff is set-up, and let it run for a month or so to see if anything changes.
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Tough to find real data on the minors but this is from 7 years ago and shows the differences in leagues.
http://www.fangraphs.com/blogs/the-m...-introduction/
BABIP does seem a tad high for me too in the minors. My guess is how the AI puts players in lineups. It tends to focus on potential more so a younger guy with more potential who can't field well might be playing SS because he needs to be in the lineup everyday.
I also feel like OOTP underrated defensive ability of prospects. Defense seems to typically be ahead of offense in a prospects development most of the time in real life. I think a lot of AA guys can hold their own defensively in the majors but not offensively. In the game it treats defense and offense the same in the development process it seems.
One other thing is that the league defaults to a .303 BABIP in the settings. I'm not sure why since the least 6 years have had a BABIP of .300, .299, .299, .297, .297, .295. Perhaps that setting is just too high which is causing inflated numbers at all levels. Maybe lowering that to .299 or .300 would be more realistic. Would love to hear from anyone on the staff if there is a reason it's set at .303.