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Originally Posted by Déjà Bru
Always try to keep one more SP around than you actually need (which depends upon the era that you are playing; in modern day, the standard SP rotation is five pitchers). The reason is, surer than you know what, an injury will take one of them out.
You're right about low contact rated players; defense is not enough in this game because you need offense to win. Of course, good batters with good gloves are ideal.
Don't completely ignore middle relievers. Again, depending on what era you are playing in (long ago, SP's pitched complete games as a matter of routine; these days, you are lucky to get five innings out of some starters), you may need a pitcher or two to carry you from the fifth inning to the seventh or eighth, then you bring in your setup guy, then your closer for the ninth. Also, there are times when your SP does not have it that night and you need to yank him out of the game after only a couple of innings . . .
Two chuckles: Your losing an entire night's sleep (been there, done that) and your season going "pear shaped" in the second half. Nice analogy.  |
Yeah, I've revised my opinion on MR - they are not so important as other positions but you do need them. I particularly like to use a strong MR to sub out a weak SP with good potential that I'm trying to improve (if needed). I'm getting more into the during game interactions now but still find it annoying that the a.i. will often swap out a pitcher before I want it to regardless of how I set them up in lineup options. I never personally mess with the pitching phase other than subbing out but a game where it's 0-0 and the 9th and my closer does his job for me to manually score 8 (for instance) was a "shouting to the screen" moment. I think if you just autoplay all the games and spend all your time buying and selling and fiddling with lineups then you are missing out on half the joy that OOTP can provide.
p.s. that missed night of sleep is now 2 for 2.