Hopefully this is something in the works with the new improved AI patch that I keep hearing about but...
It's the top of the ninth, tie ball game.
My starter pitched 6 solid innings, my number 1 middle reliever shut em down for 2.
The middle of my lineup is due up in the bottom of the 9th!
It's time to bring in a setup guy, or maybe even the closer, to shut these guys down for their half of the ninth and give my big bats a chance to win it all!!
Coming in from the bullpen is.......... scrub middle reliever number 3! The cheers (or is that hateful rage) from the crowd is deafening!
This guy has a current ERA of 52.00 so far this year, he has 8 walks and 1 strike out. He's given up 6 HRs in 5.1 IP. His ratings are 7 stuff, 6 movement, and 7 control (according to my wonderful head scout).
I have 3 very rested pitchers with over 14 in each category... but the AI (or maybe my useless manager, he really is useless btw) decides to hang the whole show on some 38 year old scrub's crooked dead arm.
Admittedly he should have been put in the mopup role, but the game should know better than to bring this guy in in that situation even if I was too lazy to do that.
Also, it did bring in my closer once that loser had let in 2 runs and loaded the bases... the scrub did get at least 1 out, my genius closer got 2 strike outs to end the 9th inning nightmare.
Okay, rant over. I really am ejoying this game.
Last season all 5 starters went down with injuries about the same time, for 2 1/2 months my rotation was all triple A starters and my hitters somehow managed to win 83 games... ah the joy of being a simulated gm.