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Originally Posted by NoOne
8 games cannot tell you anything with much confidence... he's 29. they can dip before 30, but it's a bit rare even at default aging.
if you have an option that's worthwhile to use, do it. otherwise stick it out. if he isn't hurt or lost his talent, he is fine. move him down inthe rotation, skip a start or two, if you want.... as long as they didn't pre-ordain slumps and streaks in the code, which would be counterintuitive to what reality is, there's nothing you can do with a streak of bad outings to avoid it... it's random.
2x hr/9, high babip, high bb/9... any pitcher doubles those stats and the other numbers won't look good... but it's 8 games! how many bad outings does a similar pitcher average / year? what happens if a disproportionate amount of them occur at the beginning of the year? you are fooled for months by the stats telling you the wrong thing... that's what.
if at the end of the year the game log and year-end stats show a consistent crappy performance all year.. then you may want to think about moving him off your team. in the meantime just use him less if you think he's lost his ratings (even though you cannot see, they are what drives performance... stats merely give a murky glimpse at current ratings.)
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All sounds legit, except if this is a precursor to a below-average remaining career, he could pitch decent the rest of the year and he still won't get me much if anything in a trade at the end of the year. His trade value is now, before the AI realized he's an "overpaid" veteran. I guess I need to just try and move him. We aren't going to contend, and he will be 34 when his contract is up. He still has some value now, and that value will disappear unless he runs of Cy Young Award worthy stats for the next 20 starts.