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Originally Posted by MathBandit
I mean, moving a runner over via bunt is incredibly silly and we see RL teams do it all the time. Wasting your best reliever as a 'Closer'(tm) is incredibly silly and we see RL teams do it all the time. Hitting your best hitter 3rd is incredibly silly when we've known *for 15 years now* that none of your four best hitters should be in the 3-hole, but we see RL teams do it all the time. Frankly, *letting a pitcher bat in a game* is probably a mistake (and having more than 1 pitcher PA in a game is almost certainly a punt) unless you have a HoF pitcher on the mound.
Let's not pretend that RL managers always make correct decisions.
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Surely you're not comparing non-optimal traditional baseball strategies, such as best hitter in the 3 hole, to bad end-of-game logic, such as intentionally bringing up your pitcher to hit in a critical situation after bunting with a superior hitter before him.
Bad end-of-game logic is pretty common in text sims. It is also occasionally bad in real life, but there are some text sim results which are egregious, and this one strikes me as one of them.