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Pitching is one of my main beefs with OOTP. The way it's handled is just wrong. The model Markus created aims at producing results that are as close as possible as MLB as possible. However, that is very, very restrictive, and leaves absolutely no room for imagination. For example, I don't think that using my best reliever in the way current MLB managers use them is the best way to go - however, there is no way in OOTP to decide that I want my best pitcher to pitch whenever the game is tied, or whatever other criteria I want. That is very, very frustrating. Also frustrating is starters getting fatigue from pitching 10 pitches in a game, and not being able to pitch for a while after. I know it's there to mirror MLB, but it seems a bit botched. Aesthetically, it looks accurate, but it looks like a very poor comprehension and reproduction of the actual pitching aspect of baseball - it's more of an MLB simulation than a baseball simulation, and I do have a problem with that. I hoped that the recoding would change things, but I doubt that I'll get an accurate pitching model. It's a shame, especially considering all the work that's been done with DIPS, that pitchers' options are so limited and so... untrue.
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