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Originally Posted by BIG17EASY
If we knew exactly what a trainer visit would mean moving forward, that would take away the realism and decision-making that helps make this game so good. If this happens in real life, managers and general managers don't know if the pitcher is about to go down with an injury or if they'll be fine, so neither should we.
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That's the thing. If it means nothing, like some of the text descriptions of fielding plays, that's fine. I have always thought it's just a marker for when the game needs to check to see if player x has been injured on a play, then it's a yes/no type thing. At the risk of jinxing myself, I'll note that (1) I play with injuries on very low and (2) I still see these statements fairly often and don't recall a player then being yanked because of injury. I definitely don't recall someone coming up injured the next day/postgame. So, at least at "very low" injuries I don't think it does anything.
If, on the other hand, it then flags the player to check again at greater likelihood/frequency, then as you point out there is a substantive decision to be made/risk to be assumed. Nobody needs (or wants, I assume) numbers attached to the percentages to game them, but it's entirely fair to expect to know if the text marker means something or doesn't.