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Garlon · 03-05-2023, 04:10 PM

For Yastrzemski, he did play 272.1 innings at 3B in 1973, but he also played 896.1 innings at 1B that season. The game is going to give him ratings as a 1Bmen. He will not have a good enough arm rating to play 3B. The game should not attempt to play him at 3B because he will be a defensive liability there.

I suspect that the game is trying to move Doug Griffin and Denny Doyle off 2B between 1973 and 1977 to generate more offense.

It is not so much that anything is broken regarding fielding though. This has more to do with how the game values defense. I think that players should learn new positions more slowly so that there is a greater defensive cost to making those types of moves. Then there is the matter of whether moving these players to a new position to get more offense outweighs their defensive performance. Maybe OOTP thinks it can win more games by moving these players around, but maybe it is actually an inefficient move?

03-05-2023, 04:10 PM	#36
Garlon Hall Of Famer Join Date: Jun 2004 Posts: 4,251	For Yastrzemski, he did play 272.1 innings at 3B in 1973, but he also played 896.1 innings at 1B that season. The game is going to give him ratings as a 1Bmen. He will not have a good enough arm rating to play 3B. The game should not attempt to play him at 3B because he will be a defensive liability there. I suspect that the game is trying to move Doug Griffin and Denny Doyle off 2B between 1973 and 1977 to generate more offense. It is not so much that anything is broken regarding fielding though. This has more to do with how the game values defense. I think that players should learn new positions more slowly so that there is a greater defensive cost to making those types of moves. Then there is the matter of whether moving these players to a new position to get more offense outweighs their defensive performance. Maybe OOTP thinks it can win more games by moving these players around, but maybe it is actually an inefficient move? Last edited by Garlon; 03-05-2023 at 04:14 PM.