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Good comments, SteveP. Earlier in my season, I did dial down - drastically - the pinch hit for position players setting to Never or within three notches of Never across the league for every individual team, and saw the improvement I had been hoping to achieve. In addition - and everyone will have their individual styles with this - dialed up or down (usually down) the use of pinch running to never exceed the frequency with which the team's utilize the hit and run. I thought that somewhat indicative of the management's treatment of their team's speed. That's my rationale, at least.

The final result is a much more realistic - IMHO - approach to lineup and substitutions than I'd been realizing. Of course, as a natural consequence, this is expected to drive up the plate appearances over the last seasons for positional players, but I'll be interested to see by just how much and whether it's of any real impact, where, and in what form. It could easily be a simple effect like lowering league ERA because better hitters stay in longer. I may find a slight reduction in stolen bases, as the pinch runners - typically faster - are not on the bases as often late in games creating those numbers. Again, I can't imagine it being of any magnitude, but it will be interesting to do some comparisons at year's end. I'm a solo fictional player, but I assume the feedback will be helpful nonetheless.

Thanks for the affirmations in your tips. It's moving the game's visual logic - at least to me - in the right direction as a game plays out. I play out most of my games, so it'll be a while. Regardless, I'll update you at the end of the season.