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Originally Posted by professor ape
I find it interesting that we all (me included) get a little bent when great hitters don’t perform as we would expect but we tend to be more understanding that pitchers like Peak Koufax aren’t going to have outstanding ERAs or high strikeout totals. The bottom line is that great hitters will appear to underperform against top pitching and strong pitchers will look human when facing the best hitters.
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Thanks for commernting.... this is a great topic for discussion. I'd like to see the game heading toward some semblance of consistency. Being difficult to win is not the issue, but inconsistency is a proiblem.
You make my point in a way. Great pitchers seem to come down to earth a little but still pitch well. But hitters that were feared for their ability to see and hit the ball take unusually bad drops in perfoirmance... they dont just drop to mediocrity. And following that logic, how do hitters that were mediocre at best have great seasons agains those same pitchers?Can you picture any universe where Ted Williams would hit .209 while some mediocre players hit .300? Its easy to just sell poor players, but shouldn't a game using real players have some sempblence of what those players played like?
I guess what I'm saying is that if the contact, power, eye,etc... ratings mean absolutely nothing.... then why bother with them at all? The ratings seem to hold better for pitchers than for batters, but they're still often far off the ability these players had.
As to a comment that was made that the games would be boring if the players all performed like their ratings..... well, why do all the teams have mostly the same players? That's not boring? Don't yoiu get tired of your lineup and the opposition lineup being the same, regardless of how yoiu feel about ratings. Out of all the cards out there, I'd say my lineup and the oppositions have about 6 or 7 of the same players in it.
My personal solution to this is that I just spend less trime playing. There are so many players, but the performance data tends to favor only a ferw players. Just check the Diamond league best p;itchers in any of the leagues..... its all Johnson, Maddux, Spahn, Koufax. Go figure.....
Thank you for the discussion... good to hear all the opinions..