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Originally Posted by baseball_newbie
Am I right that depth charts, are where you set your defensive postions and substitutes against a team with a right handed or left handed pitcher with or without designated hitter?
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You can't set defensive subs directly. What you're doing in the depth charts is choosing who will start the game at that position. If you want another player to start the game at that position, but only do so sometimes (like if main starter is tired, or hurt, or just to get a look at the other guy) then the depth chart can do that as well. That's where the "every X games" comes into play. That's useful to make sure the player will start at least that often. For example, if you have two players of very similiar ability at the same position. You might want to start each a significant amount of time, which should help keep both fresh.
If you never want the player to start at that position, you can set that too. The player would come in only as a defensive sub (if the AI chooses him) or otherwise be availible off the bench as a pinch hitter, in case of injury, etc.
You can set the depth charts for each lineup, they can all be different, and you can have each line up favor hitters that like to face a certain hand of pitcher. For example, if you see a guy that's 40 vs RHP and 70 vs LHP, this is a guy you'd want to put into your vs LHP lineups, but maybe just spot-start in your vs RHP lineups.