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Originally Posted by injury log
I don't see how OOTP's injury implementation would ever capture what happened to Ankiel- 'Steve Blass disease' isn't in the injury database (and nor should it be!). Ankiel wasn't injured; he just, all of a sudden, woke up one day and couldn't pitch. In the past, pitchers haven't recoverd from the Blass problem, and it's an example of where a talent hit is warranted, absent injury. That said, this Blass thing is rare.
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I think all he's saying is that a designer could implement the sudden loss of a talent associated with Steve Blass disease in the same framework as if it were an injury. You could say the same thing about things like the onset of cancer or diabetes or any other external disease.