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Originally Posted by Number4
Well, I would love to be able to track tiring plays, but I don't think that would be possible. I'd say "pitches caught" would be a nice approximation of the fatigue a players gets by catching duties, as the more you crouch behind the plate, the more tired you'd get.
I know that well-hitting catchers get "rest days" at 1B or DH if they are hitting well enough, for example Posey:
Buster Posey Statistics and History | Baseball-Reference.com
More or less every 5th game at 1B.
However I cannot "rest" a catcher if he's at 1B or DH, because that is still considered playing time. With my suggestion, you could actually give him off days behind the plate and still keep his bat in the lineup. |
Not sure where you get that idea. I indicated above the catcher fatigue model is different so when a catcher plays 1B he won't get so tired. My experience is that the catcher fatigue model works well in OOTP. A pitches caught fatigue model just doesn't make sense to me. Keep in mind that Posey only played in 142 games all year so that means every 8 games he had a full day off and of that 8 games 1.5 per week or 3 every 16 games was at 1B. Every 3.24 games Posey had a day off or played 1B. That agrees quite well with my earlier post about resting good starting catchers once a week assuming they don't play another position.
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