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80 Stuff Rating, Zero Strikeouts
I have a pitcher in the Continental League named Brandon Lovett. Kind of a fictional version of Steve Dalkowski, or Brad Pennington, or maybe Mitch Williams as a starter. 80 stuff rating, but movement is 40-ish, control in the 30s (all on the 20-80 scale). He's playing in the majors and has a terrible year, 130 innings, 150 Ks, 140 walks, tons of homers given up.
So I trade him to the tiny, independent, Southern Maryland league. I'm playing along with the CBL, but then go check out the SoMd league to see how Lovett is doing. I find out that in his first 11 innings he's struck out no one. Zero. He still has the same ratings, is now playing in the equivalent of a rookie league, facing a lot of batters with 25 or 30 ratings across the board, but isn't striking anyone out at all. I look at his spring training numbers and he had almost no strikeouts in 30 or 40 innings. He's not hurt - he's 100% healthy.
This has to be a bug, right?
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