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close to 90% of pitchers are typically drafted as starters and later become relievers for various reasons
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Next to league associations, this is what I'm most looking forward to in OOTP13. I'm so tired of seeing so many RPs in the draft with very little chance at ever developing into SPs.
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- Injury has more effect on stamina now, some pitchers recover after a serious injury, others don't, forcing a move to the pen after a series of injuries (think John Smoltz).
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Nice!
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- Shorter pitchers (< 5"11') generally get generated with lower stamina (of course there are exceptions though) and have a worse chance to develop more stamina in the future.
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Not nice. I'm not "shorter", but I don't like that shorter people get tagged with things like this. If there was indisputable evidence to show this was warranted then okay. As comparison, I'm in the "let's have a clutch rating" camp and many people say "let's not because there's no evidence", but I'd argue that clutch is a fun personality rating that you can choose to believe has an effect or might not, but this height feature is a definite.
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- The overall rating calculation (stars) for middle relievers & closers has changed, both are no longer compared to only pitchers with the same role, but rather now compared to all relief pitchers. That means you will no longer find 5-star MR that often since they are now compared to a ground which includes the closers.
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That's a decent start, but I'd rather we get rid of MRs and CLs altogether and just have RPs. When I'm looking for a RP, I don't care what label they've been tagged with, I just want to filter by RP.
Why don't we have SU and MU roles? Because it'd be dumb to, just like having MRs and CLs is.
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- Salary demand has been recoded for middle relievers and closers, it's now much more realistic.
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I gather they'll demand more? Fair enough.