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Originally Posted by Cactusguy21
So, have any of you had a case like this, where scouts and teams totally underrate a player, no matter what he does? It's really, really weird.
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Happened to me back in OOTP15 or so, so I do not have screenshots. But third baseman Addison Maruszak (in real life a career minor league utility man), spent his first three years on the Yankees, going about .300/.330/.440, with ~10 homers and 60 RBI per year. Not a superstar, but an extremely serviceable player. At the beginning of his third year, the Yanks traded him for a washed-up reliever. I actually intervened at that point and edited him back onto New York because I just couldn't rationalize that deal. He hit arbitration at the end of that season and was awarded just $750k. Then the Yankees once again dealt him away for next to nothing.
I finally had enough and traded for him myself, giving up a very good reliever and a prospect. He wasn't as good as he was in New York, but he was steady, if unspectacular. Yet he never made more than $1M in arbitration, and when I let him walk 3 years later, he had a .275 career average and somehow never found another major league gig.
So yeah, I've seen it happen. It was even more bizarre because I crank up the AI Eval settings to favor stats over ratings. Even with scouting on, some team should have been able to use a .275 hitter at 3B.