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Originally Posted by Afino
I agree with feeder leagues, but there will be a lot of instances where players are listed as a "SP" but have no chance (well, unless they get lucky) to ever be starters in the big leagues unless they get a 3rd pitch. So just because you see five-star SP's still on the board in the 5th round doesn't mean they can even be a starter in the bigs.
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I agree with this but only to an extent. You can get a huge advantage over the AI if you draft a bunch of these guys. Sometimes you can still be drafting them in the 13th or 14th round while the AI has been taking marginally talented players since the 3rd round. If you manage to draft even 5 or 6 of these guys per year, it won't be long before the law of averages gives you enough of them developing a 3rd pitch and being dominant starters. Those that don't develop a third pitch move to the bullpen and give you a dominant pen and lots of trade fodder. The human player has a huge advantage because the AI won't touch these guys in the first third of the draft or so. I'd like to see this fixed in the next version.
As for the OP's point on scouting, yeah it needs some tweaking. I got so disgusted with it in X that I just turned it off, which kind of sucks. The last straw for me was a young pitcher on my team. He was pitching well in AAA, but both my scout and OSA said he was a 1 start current and potential guy, so I wasn't eager to give him a shot in the majors. Eventually, one of my starters got hurt one May and the youngster got a shot. He went on to be in the top 5 in the league in ERA that season. I was thinking fluke perhaps...the next season he was again in the top 5 in ERA and won 20 games and because he was still listed as a 1 star guy he was absolutely worthless on the trade market. You're telling me that a guy who has been one of the best pitchers in the game two years running and the scouts think he sucks? Really? That's just crazy. I turned off scouting and discovered that he was in reality a 3 star guy, which seemed pretty accurate given his peripherals.