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Originally Posted by VanillaGorilla
The years noted were to give some context for a representative rate output for that player's career in the simulation. That Mitchell's 1998 offensive output was representative of his simmed career doesn't mean that the lumbering husky Mitchell of 1998 would be the one fielding the SS position.
Heck, any RL Mitchell fielding SS is scary to me. The Mitchell here is an example of how recalc and player development work together in the game. Recalc does not erase the abilities gained from player dev in simmed seasons. If it did, Mitchell would not have appeared at SS 560 times in 1324 career simmed games (439 LF, 330 3B). He played there when it was best for his team to do so. In his final season, he made 10 appearances at SS, after winning his 3rd Gold Glove the previous season. So, he didn't lose his acquired alternative reality ability to play there that he developed when the recalc of RL stats was applied. He
That you chose to think of him in his 1998 body and made choices based on that is perfectly fine. I also took the years into some account when thinking of the player, but thought of Mitchell as a hybrid of his real self and the virtual self that could play a solid SS.
No sorries needed for anything you wrote about the line-ups. I enjoyed reading the thought process.
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Yeah, I guess it is hard for me to get past what his body became. In an alternative reality I guess it is possible, or at least possible he could have stayed in good enough shape for 3B. Though, I guess letting your body go the way of Jabba the Hutt would be hard to put into the program.
. I did look it up and Mitchell's season in the listed 1994 was a monster one with the Reds 30HRs in 95 games and 300+ ABs in the strike shortened season.