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Simmo13 · 03-17-2011, 12:15 PM

FWIW I play out all my teams games during the season so I quite enjoy Spring Training, giving my hitting prospects AB against the better pitchers and starting my pitching prospects against the stronger line-ups. My minor league seasons start before the end of Spring Training so I send some players down early. Needless to say, my OOTP universe progresses at a fairly stately pace!
Looking at the AI teams during this seasons Spring Training I notice that it mostly starts 4 SP in rotation (I have a fictional deadball era set-up) but each only pitches 3/4/5 innings so relievers are often pitching on three or four consecutive days and on a lot of teams some position players have had no AB after 10/11 games whereas expected regulars have had 25/30 AB.

03-17-2011, 12:15 PM	#2
Simmo13 All Star Reserve Join Date: Mar 2005 Location: those blue remembered hills Posts: 955	FWIW I play out all my teams games during the season so I quite enjoy Spring Training, giving my hitting prospects AB against the better pitchers and starting my pitching prospects against the stronger line-ups. My minor league seasons start before the end of Spring Training so I send some players down early. Needless to say, my OOTP universe progresses at a fairly stately pace! Looking at the AI teams during this seasons Spring Training I notice that it mostly starts 4 SP in rotation (I have a fictional deadball era set-up) but each only pitches 3/4/5 innings so relievers are often pitching on three or four consecutive days and on a lot of teams some position players have had no AB after 10/11 games whereas expected regulars have had 25/30 AB.