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Originally Posted by Dyzalot
How? If you want me to not sim and play games out instead, well that's a whole different experience. I thought I was "manually manipulating my pitching staff" by setting a rotation. It is the AI overriding my strategy settings, not me relying on it to use my pitchers properly.
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You can pull pitchers you don't want to start out of the rotation and replace them with call ups, change the starter for that day in the Pitching screen, set low pitch counts for that day's starter, or do some combination of all three. I've done all of these things at one time or another as the season winds down and had the starters I wanted ready for the playoffs. This isn't some huge problem that is impossible to overcome. It just requires a little attention on your part. If you don't want to play the games out, you can start the game as if you are and make sure the starter you want is pitching that day. If not you can change him. Once the guy you want is in the lineup you can sim the game to the end, it'll take a second.
The developers coded this as a best effort to use logical AI at the end of the season so the best pitchers are ready for the playoffs. But, they can't read our minds. Sometimes you have to put in a modicum of effort to see to it that things play out as you want them.