[Syd Thrift]

One thing I'd love to see OOTP do a better job of is pitcher hitting through the decades. I'd imagine they'd have to add something to the engine to set the assignment of contact, power, etc. to be higher for pitchers (the reality, let's face it, is the opposite: pitchers even in 1912 were never acquired for their ability to hit and so, as is the case now, they did so at the leaguewide level of a talented but not particularly gifted athlete, and in turn "Joe Athlete" was better relative to the rest of the league than he is today) and surely there'd be something else in a file for people to work on (or even a new file) but that's one thing - a relatively minor thing but still a thing - that bugs me when I run deadball era saves. There were a couple position players - one in particular, Bill Bergen - who struggled to hit at the level of the average pitcher and nowadays nobody, not even Kevin Newman, is that bad or could ever hope to keep a starting job for the better part of the decade hitting like that.