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It's been said a thousand times: OOTP does not recognize players by name. It sees each player as a bunch of ratings, nothing more. Put your preconceived notions about real-life players aside; a guy is not going to a stud in OOTP just because he's having a good season in real life.
Here's a question: In OOTP, let's say you signed a stud pitcher who was a proven vet with a career ERA of under 4, a former Rookie of the Year and Cy Young winner, and seemingly worth every penny you were paying him. If he then underperformed the first year, and completely blew up the second, posting a 6+ ERA, how would you react? Some people might call the game "broken" or "fixed" or "too hard". What if he then missed the entire next season due to injury, and was still eating up $16M of your money? What if no team wanted him in a trade due to all this, and you were stuck with him for 3 more years? Doesn't seem fair, does it?
But then, what if he came back the next year and turned into one of the best pitchers on the team, with a sub-3 ERA? Not realistic, right? Well, I just described exactly what happened with John Lackey and the Red Sox in real life.
My point is this: in all honesty, OOTP does a fantastic job of mimicking real life, because of its unpredictability. Sometimes guys who were previously good stay good, and sometimes they suck. You can't base what "should" happen on real life, because even real life doesn't usually follow what "should" happen.
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