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Originally Posted by Dyzalot
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Quoting from that artcile, this is the kind of thing that can no longer be done because teams in 2019 have too few position players to make it work:
"The Orioles continued to platoon at catcher and all three outfield positions in 1983 under Joe Altobelli, as the Orioles won the 1983 World Series, leading other teams to pursue the strategy."
But anyway, I agree with you it should be possible to have teams in OOTP employ strict platoons and platoon molre often than they currently do. I think our only difference is I think it should be in league strategy settings the way so many other tactics are. We probably would agree that the manager should prefer to platoon less or more and that should be a big factor in whether a team platoons.
But we agree that currently OOTP teams platoon too rarely and especially they don't do enough strict platoons where either late in the game or in a high leverage situation, facing a relief pitcher of opposite handedness should usually lead to the platoon partner pinch hitting.