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Originally Posted by SteveP
I don't think anyone has ever come up with a definitive answer to that question. There is probably some effect, but it may get lost in all the other random things that go on. After all, players have slumps even when they are happy. Plus, if a player is unhappy because of his own performance, maybe that shouldn't make his performance worse.
I assume that if a player is angry, I am going to have trouble with him eventually, one way or another. I assume if a player is unhappy, he might be performing worse because of it, but the more important dimension is that he might go from being unhappy to angry, so that's something I'd like to avoid.
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In my personal experience, Angry players generally arrive at that state after being jacked around in transactions so they rightly don't know where they stand with me.
The players who are Unhappy are often Unhappy with their own performance and I have the slightest, ever so slightest, inkling that those with high work ethic have tended to work their way out of those performance declines and, consequently, the mood changes, if I haven't affected it by shopping them around.
Oddly, I had a pitcher recently decline in morale from, IIRC, Normal to Unhappy right after I traded away two highly-skilled defensive infielders. His morale status check indicated there was no reason for it; everything was blank or None. Only the morale status had changed. Maybe they were friends?
