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Originally Posted by Erithtotl

Tatis is the closest thing I can come to an example of this, but Tatis also had a bunch of injuries after his two productive years (his year after his big year wasn't bad). And that emphasizes my other point. Tatis didn't just collapse. The year after his monster year he suffered through an injury prone year where he hit only .253, but with a .379 OBP and a .491 slugging, an excellent year for a 3rd baseman. His problem was that he had all those injuries and lacked the work ethic or the luck to overcome them. And Ankiel clearly had some kind of mental problem that would be be implemented as an injury. Again, if the massive talent collapses were associated with injury, it might make some kind of sense, but this guy was healthy as can be, and his talent and ability collapsed in one day, rather than over a period of several months.

I'm not complaining about losing the player. I'm complaining about the way it happens in the game is not realistic. You don't just wake up one day and forget what you could do fine yesterday. And, again, this is not an isolated occurance, it has happened to me 3 times in 6 seasons and I can only assume it happens for the AI at similar frequency, so that means 15 players a year or so, rather than 1 or 2 every 5 years as might be the case by the few examples we have been able to come up with.

Point well-taken.