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Originally Posted by tylertoo
What are the risks to putting a player in a new position during ST to add versatility. Would it hurt his rating at his primary position? Greater risk injury?
Specifically, I have an aging stud 1B, 5 out of 10 at 1B position, no ratings at any other positions. I was thinking of putting him at 3B some of the time during ST to get something of a position rating at the other corner.* Good idea or bad?
*Edit: His specific defensive ratings are IF range 4, IF error 7, IF arm 5, turn DP 5... all out of 10.
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with those ratings he should probably just DH.
To answer your questions though, I am not sure if there is any negative effects on cross training. Previous versions of OOTP had actual "points" you could use to "train" a player. It was expensive "points"-wise to train a player at a new position, so his other skills, such as hitting would suffer (or should I say not have the ability to improve?).
And going from 1b to 3b was a lot harder to train than going from 3b to 1b.