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My concern is still that importing players in historical settings gives a lot more to other types than GB or ExGB.
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I agree. I just turned over my other league, which just finished the 1998 season. The rookie draft has no SP that are GB or ExGB. There are 6 such RP. This is out of a total of 128 pitchers in the draft. So that's less than 5%. There are 38 FB/ExF pitchers.
The good news is that the pitchers are good anyway - there are plenty of pitchers that are 4 and 5 stars. So I will just roll with it for now, but is still clearly a problem.
I just took a quick look at last year's stats, since last year's rookies were the first ones with the elevated FB rates. The overall league gave up just over 1.0 HR per 9 innings. The rookie class gave up more, probably 1.1 or a bit more (I did not do the math, just looked over the list). It's a bit high, but those guys are rookies after all, and nobody has stats that look out of place. It is not obvious that HR rate was affected significantly. I glanced at the GDP rate against those pitchers, and it also looked low but not clearly out of line.