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Originally Posted by sharknut
I wonder if it's a Milt Wilcox issue across the entire game.
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Haha. I'd say that Milt might be ready to fire his agent. But, in all seriousness, I think OOTP undervalues some players like Wilcox who often perform quite well but whose ratings and pitch ratings are not as obviously strong.
However, getting back to the core issue at hand, the AI is also inconsistent with its evaluations. For example, after spending one season in AAA in my game, Wilcox was selected in the Rule 5 draft. I left him unprotected because his ratings were starting to decline, but the AI didn't hesitate to select him in the first round. However, one year previously, the same AI teams had let him languish as an unsigned free agent for the entire off-season, even though he was eventually willing to sign a minor league contract with an MLB option. It did the exact same thing with Dan Spellner, another pitcher that I signed to a similar contract and then left unprotected one year later.