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Originally Posted by t-bone shuffle
I'm seeing this as well.
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Perhaps a partial solution to this problem would be as follows:
Do not replace relief pitcher X with relief pitcher Y, if X and Y are of the same handedness, unless relief pitcher X has faced at least 3 batters.
A couple of exceptions:
1. Allow replacement of X with Y if Y is the closer and it has become a save situation.
2. Obviously, in an NL park, do not refrain from pinch hitting for relief pitcher X because of this rule.
If the AI followed this rule it would be better than now, I think. Very occasionally you might see in real baseball a pitcher come in and walk 2 batters and get replaced by a pitcher of the same hand, but I think it is rare.
Alternatively, if the AI had to follow the warm-up rule (it doesn't really, correct?), that could help the silly eighth inning relief pitcher carousel I sometimes see.