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oldtimey · 01-31-2014, 10:47 PM

What bugs me the most is that the AI does not need to warm up pitchers in the bullpen. This aspect of the ingame experience has been done well aynd has represented the prevailing trends of Major League Baseball by other sims since Earl Weaver Baseball in the 1980s. To have no warm up strategy and not have this be a part of a game's late inning drama does not truly represent Major League Baseball. My experience stops at OOTP13, so if any of this has been corrected in 14, I apologize for being redundant. The play-by-play doesn't address the starting pitcher's fatigue or the strategy involved in the choices of relievers. When a pitching change is made, all you see is "SUBSTITUTION" and the new pitcher appears. And when the reliever is brought into a save situation, his current save stats for the season is not indicated. Again, if this different in OOTP14, I will shut up. This is the first of a few problems I had with OOTP13 in-game, but it definitely is the issue that bugged me the most.

01-31-2014, 10:47 PM	#3
oldtimey Minors (Single A) Join Date: Mar 2012 Location: Chicago, IL Posts: 60	What bugs me the most is that the AI does not need to warm up pitchers in the bullpen. This aspect of the ingame experience has been done well aynd has represented the prevailing trends of Major League Baseball by other sims since Earl Weaver Baseball in the 1980s. To have no warm up strategy and not have this be a part of a game's late inning drama does not truly represent Major League Baseball. My experience stops at OOTP13, so if any of this has been corrected in 14, I apologize for being redundant. The play-by-play doesn't address the starting pitcher's fatigue or the strategy involved in the choices of relievers. When a pitching change is made, all you see is "SUBSTITUTION" and the new pitcher appears. And when the reliever is brought into a save situation, his current save stats for the season is not indicated. Again, if this different in OOTP14, I will shut up. This is the first of a few problems I had with OOTP13 in-game, but it definitely is the issue that bugged me the most.