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Originally Posted by Dyzalot
No. Perez was at third with a "16" arm and an overall of "14". Randolph may have a slightly better arm but he has almost no experience and he has better range, error and turn dp ratings, all of which seem to me to be more important factors at 2nd than they are at third.
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That I misread, but I can still see why they did it. The range and the error ratings are definitely valued higher at third than second by the AI.
Randolph would be an elite third baseman with more experience, so I can see why a manager would make that call, even with Perez instead of Sanchez (which I apologize for misreading.)
I can see why you would think that the positional rating would be more important, however, and I don't mean to imply that it doesn't have value itself. It does. It is still totally explainable, and really not even strange, to see the decision.