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Originally Posted by sprague
I find it only takes about 10 years into a game, to get 5-6 draft classes into the majors, to see an incredible amount of the top 50 players all being great hitting catchers. Like super sluggers.
I have had to go through drafts, and every year make a few catchers into ok outfielders or firstbasemen just to keep the position skew about right.
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Yep, this has been my impression each time I've started a new league. It doesn't fluctuate with time either. New great hitting catchers continually enter the league.
For my current season, I tried to turn position player fatigue to "low", because I thought non-catchers tended to play too few games through a combination of injuries/fatigue... and what happened was that catchers played even more games than in previous years and there was no noticeable change at other positions.
15 catchers played in 150 games! That's absurd. Compared to other positions:
1B - 8
2B - 10
3B - 13
SS - 6
And most absurd of all...
TEN outfielders. Of all outfielders across the three spots, only 10 played in 150+ games, just confirming my impression that they face far too many injury/fatigues issues, especially compared to catcher. I suspect that Cinnamon J. Scudworth's idea might be the case.