[1991Twins]

I think it's awesome that andyhdz used his league to conduct a test. I was inspired by his ideas and ran another test. For this test, I used a current 2020 default rosters league on the current patch (21.3.45). I deleted the real draft class and allowed the game to provide a fresh batch of players. When generating the class, I generated a class for 5 extra rounds to not be drafted like andyhdz did.

What I found is this:

1. 9 of 29 1st round draft picks were starting pitchers.
2. Using players generated for 5 extra rounds not to be drafted, position players ran out in the 32nd round instead of the 28th round.
3. Teams still drafted a little strangely. The Padres drafted 10 catchers for some inexplicable reason. The Orioles took 14 relief pitchers (22 total pitchers), the Rockies took 13 relief pitchers (19 total pitchers), and the Marlins took 11 relief pitchers (17 total pitchers). I could see the argument that maybe these teams were very weak in pitching and were restocking their system. I am not sure though why San Diego needed to draft 10 catchers though.

I wonder if the game is generating the upper end talent in favor of mostly pitchers because in 2020 the real MLB is so dominated by offense and this is the game's way of maintaining balance. I can confirm that players are the appropriate ages and are in the right draft class. All in all, everything looks good in what was added to the new patch. I hope either Matt or Markus can look more into this to make sure that things are running smoothly and as designed. I will try to run a historic league to see if there are less pitchers.