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Originally Posted by Raidergoo
Half of the ratings are fairly typical (Cabrera, Garciaparra) and some are shocking (Bard, Wood). The time of year was by design, player if I recall correctly, will go up and down during off season.
Bard is so bad I am tempted to say that he was inaccurately high rated initially, suffered a drop, and that he's been inaccurately rated low on the second pass. Very weird.
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the problem we're having is that all players have regressed in some degree. some not so noticeable, but you can tell they have by just looking at their overall and potential ratings.
thats to say nobody has improved.
personally as an owner im concerned for two reasons: 1) i was expecting for major ratings changes to happen in spring training and i expected gradual ratings changes to occur during the regular season, mostly reflective of their on-field results.
and 2) some of these guys with huge contracts have also regressed and id hate to think of having a guy on my team like jarrod washburn for instance who can at best be an average starter (#3 starter in my rotation) owed 9+ million per year, and then have him regress so radically and owe a below avg pitcher 36 million dollars.
perhaps 9 million wasnt so bad for an avg pitcher. so long as he gave you avg pitcher results...
i dont think the actual ratings were a concern. nobody seemed to have a problem with josh bard being initially rated so highly. its just him and everyone else's ratings dropping so fast together.
prospects should take over this league in 3 years time or less at this rate.