[Syd Thrift]

I will say that I feel like a lot of this is accurate. A guy signs with a new team, is bad on offense, and from his perspective the only thing he changed is the place where he plays. Sometimes those guys are like "oh no I suck now I should be quiet" but an awful lot of the time they're like "keep playing me at cleanup because I am a cleanup hitter and on top of that you're making me hit poorly!". That is reflected in that separate morale component for "player performance".

I also don't think GMs like eeeeeeever respond like that. One, that's a manager's job, not theirs, and two, in that respect the GM is kind of like a front-facing job when it comes to player gripes. I remember working in customer service, which I was kind of bad at because I gave into this too often, but you get a loooooad of idiots demanding dumb things just as a regular thing and you are very much not supposed to tell them the truth because that will just make them even madder.

That said, people are right; if you win games then that will cure pretty much any other issue you have with chemistry. You rarely have to worry about clubhouse cancers on a good team, players tend to be happy with playing time even if they're pinch-hitting instead of starting if you're winning 95 games, and when there are are angry boys it's one or two of them you have to deal with instead of 15.