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Originally Posted by rpriske
Yeah, because Pedroia is well past his prime....
Uh, no.
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I know he's not in real world terms, but I've generally found that, playing with default aging/development modifiers, that ages 30-onward are heavy regression time, even for specific individuals that we might expect to continue producing in the real world. "Worthless" would clearly be an oversell in Pedroia's case, but he was no more than league average by 2015 in my current league, and a negative value player by 2017.
I think this is the same reason that the Yankees always seem to tank in my leagues as well. OOTP just sees age as a variable among the other 1s and 0s, so when I see a Red Sox team getting that bad from 2013 to 2014, I'm assuming that Pedroia got roped into the age-related decline crowd in that particular league. That's an assumption I was making based on that preseason prediction value.