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Originally Posted by theprofessional
All fair points, thanks for looking into it!
I'll also echo someone else's comments earlier in the thread regarding an overabundance of free agent's/journeymen type players who are being rated too highly.
Most players who are in FA (outside of Snell, Montgomery, JD Martinez, and maybe a couple others) should be at max 35-40 OVR.
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Just a short list of FA's who are currently rated 45-50 OVR (which is an average MLB player rating), that should be decreased to a max of 35 OVR:
Matt Beaty, Travis Demeritte, Seuly Matias, Taylor Jones, Jerar Encarnacion, Ryan Lamarre, Nomar Mazara, Kyle Lewis, Danny Santana, Jordan Qsar, Nick Plummer, Tyler Naquin, Darin Ruf, Jorge Bonifacio, Kole Calhoun
That's just batters, there's an even greater abundance of scrub pitchers in real life who are rated 40+ in the game. I believe this is a big reason why the AI keeps shuffling their rosters around so much, dropping legit MLB players and prospects in favor of randoms. Most teams in the game have players that are 35-40 OVR on their MLB rosters and in AAA, who in real life are fighting for roster spots. These FA are leapfrogging legit MLB players and prospects in org rankings, despite the fact that most of them have barely even reached the majors in real life and done nothing to warrant their ratings.
Just one example to illustrate my point: Matt Beaty is a 50 OVR free agent with 60 contact. That contact rating puts him in a tie for 12th among all MLB players. He hit .230 across 70 PA in MLB last year. How is that rating justified? If we're being honest, most players in free agency need their ratings lowered drastically.