[aadam]

I play pitch-by-pitch when batting but leave defense and pitching strategy to the team manager and sim each at bat of opposing teams (by pressing enter/space or using the controls at the bottom).

When siming an at bat, does the game use the pitching settings specified on the team strategy screen? I guess pitch around frequency could make a difference (for example, high for good control pitchers, low for those who struggle).

And generally, how do people feel about the advantage of controlling each pitch, instead of leaving it to the manager? I dare not to do it myself because I don't know how often I should pitch around.

(I play with Baltimore, started with OOTP 2013 rosters, and my rotation is Wada-Matusz-Bedard-Arrieta-Stauffer (3 lefties) and they're terrible. My pitching was predicted to be dead last in the league (and the overall record to be under .400), is that the indication of an extremely bad rotation?)