[mrbill]

Here's the summary so we don't start down the path again.

The original argument was to stop the game from *creating* left-handed throwing 2B/3B/SS. There was never a motion to stop people from *editing* left-handed throwing 2B/3B/SS, on their own.

There's a correlary argument to keep the game from letting left-handed throwers learn to play 2B/3B/SS with ability on par with right-handed throwers.

Now, the fielding engine is going to change in the next version, so its hard to say how this will work.

The first request should be simple to grant, the 2nd probably requires some thought. But, there's enough stats (or, lack of stats) to back up that left-handed throwers should not be able to play those positions at a major-league level without a fairly large penalty, probably equivalent to having no rating at those positions, because of the extra time required to make throws on the move from any of those positions to first base.

Before jax chimes in, teams always need left-handed bats, so if it was possible, SOMEONE in 100 years of history would have made a living being a left-handed hitter/thrower playing one of those positions. That has not been shown to have happened, so the request is that the new player-creation engine and fielding-learning engine should both respect that left-handed throwers can't play those positions.

Again, it leaves open the possibility to edit the players yourself, but because modern baseball (since the advent of gloves) hasn't produced one such player, 99% of people would find good fielding, left-handed throwing 2B/3B/SS impossible players.