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Originally Posted by El Muneco
Can't help with game management, since I'm still GMing from 30000 feet...
Not surprised Braun is coming around, especially at the beginning of a new game it's really easy to be too frustrated to give things time to settle. I'm getting kind of jaded, actually, I'll give a guy too much time to justify his high ratings, especially if it's, say, a middle reliever with ERA consistently in the 4s.
I had a moment like your "bullpen" thing the first two careers I played for reals. I delegated almost everything properly so that I could be just GM and my teams would run themselves under oversight. But I neglected to give my manager control over the lineup... So he spent the entire season trying to play the opening day lineup on short rest and only substituting when players physically couldn't drag themselves onto the field. My #1 starter started over 50 games, but still had under 300 IP because he was always on two or three days' rest.
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Oh wow, that's crazy! I'll definitely make sure to keep combing through settings to make sure this doesn't happen.
Right now I'm dealing with a...situation. I traded for Billingsley who immediately become my number 2 starter in between Gallardo and Lohse. He got hurt a week ago for the 3 months (rest of the season). Then I played a game today and on the first out of the game Gallardo got hurt for 4-5 months (rest of the season). I managed to scrape through with my bullpen and win that game. The very next game, Lohse got hurt in the sixth inning for 3 weeks (not rest of season). I got through the game but didn't win. But now I have three AAA starters filling out my staff and my #4 and #5 starters are now currently my #1 and #2 starters.
Just no luck this year. Kinda glad it was already a losing season.
EDIT: It makes me wonder, is there a way I could talk to the owner and say "come on man, you can't fire me based on this season. All top 3 starters got hurt for the last two months of the season."
EDIT 2: Okay this is getting ridiculous. My very next game Lucroy goes out for the rest of the season in the first inning. I literally have played only the three games since I opened this session of OOTP and lost Gallardo, Lohse and Lucroy for the season in each game. Talk about bad luck...
EDIT 3: I am not kidding but Mike Fiers, my starter just got hurt in the third inning (out for 7 weeks). Same game I lost Lucroy. Did I open the game and break the RNG mechanic for injuries or something? This is ridiculous. Three straight games, three straight SP's injured.
EDIT 4; I feel like this game is trying kill me.
EDIT 5: THE CURSE HAS BEEN LIFTED! Estrada pitched 7 innings and didn't get injured! Funny story, the same game Gallardo was hurt Wainwright, the opposing starter got hurt 1 inning later.
EDIT 6: And here is the strangest part; I've won all these games but one. Mainly due to Aramis Ramirez hitting 4 HR's the last three games.
EDIT 7: And here is a screenshot of practially my whole rotation on the DL:
http://i.imgur.com/tJrpCio.jpg
EDIT 8: LOL, now this takes the cake. On my OFF DAY I simulated and got news that Segura suffered a setback in his recovery and will be out an additional 1-2 weeks. I must have upset the wrong person. WHAT DID I DO TO OFFEND YOU INJURY GODS?