[swishbish33]

I've been fairly successful in my fictional world over the 30 years I've had it running, winning a couple championships and making the playoffs more than half the time. I've never had a serious issue with injuries, and to be honest I've changed a few guys ratings back after an injury tore his ratings and potential down, as I do not agree with the way the system is set up (I believe potential should never go down, only actual ratings. Make the actual ratings go down and let the guy never re-reach his potential, so to speak). But these past two seasons have been ridiculous. Allow me to illustrate:

I, through the luck of talent increases, had a young quintet of pitchers that all had potential at 3 stars or above, including 2 guys with 4.5 star potential. I was careful with them, setting their pitch counts at 100 once they got to AAA, and promoting and demoting so as to keep their ERAs under 5 and avoid the dreaded talent loss. They all developed fine (I was lucky) and broke into the big leagues within two years of each other and had decent years, and one of them had a sub-3 ERA last season. I'm thinking, I'm set with my pitching for years to come. However, ALL 5 suffered 6+ month injuries that effectively HALVED their potential ratings and made them all literally half the pitcher they once were. All of them had these injuries between the ages of 25 and 28, in what should have been their prime. Two have come back and could no longer pitch effectively at the ML level. But it doesn't end there.

I had 3 OFs with potential at 3 stars or higher, two of which I developed as first round picks, and one I received as a trade piece when I sold off a first baseman (logjam at the position at the ML level). All three developed fine, and reached the majors. However, within the first three years of their being in the majors, all three suffered 6+ month injuries that tore their potential ratings in half, and they are no longer effective at the ML level. They were between 25 and 27. I also had a stud second baseman that I traded a great prospect for suffer a career-ending injury this past season.

I guess I'm just venting and also asking, is this normal? Just an incredible run of bad luck? How do you guys deal with mounting catastrophic injuries? Am I bringing them up too soon?