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Originally Posted by megamanmatt
Then it's just as useless as the original version of the rule.
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I disagree. With the old system, you had to decide when to get pitchers up and warming. You couldn't just swap in relievers at whim, with no prior planning.
I don't see what the new "tiring" rule is meant to prevent? Like I mentioned, If I, as manager, call the bullpen and say "get Davis up and warming," I then expect the bullpen coach to take care of it. Only other interaction I should have to have is to call up again and say, "Is Davis ready?" I shouldn't have to call and hear, "Sorry, skip, I let Davis get too tired because you didn't call sooner." That's just stupid. But it's essentially what OOTP 16 is now 'modelling.'
In any event, warming pitchers are tiring way too quickly. If I were dumb enough to start warming a pitcher a few innings before I intended to use him, then yes, that pitcher might reasonably be over-fatigued. But why would I do that?
The new rule needlessly complicates what used to work just fine.