Really like your suggestions and the discussion in general.
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Originally Posted by Syd Thrift
- This may seem like anathema to those who want to have all data constantly available to them but I feel like some pitchers should have injuries that are not disclosed but simply cause them to underperform. At best perhaps you notice it by playing out the games and noticing a loss of velocity or it's part of a similar story. How often does it happen that a guy has a bad year and then it turns out he had an elbow injury? It's not even always "hiding" per se; a lot of the time it's hard to tell what's a real injury and what are normal everyday aches and pains. In any case, sometimes you just don't know until it exhibits in a bigger injury that requires a lot of time off, or they just underplay their shown ratings until you or happenstance choose to rest them.
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I've thought about this a lot as well. It feels pretty unrealistic that most position players are listed as OK and 100% rested most days, when probably everyone in MLB is dealing with some degree of nagging injury on any given day. One way to improve this would be to greatly increase the frequency and duration of day-to-day injuries, though in general I doubt that casual players would enjoy that much.
I also wonder if we should get any information at all about whether a player is "OK and 100% rested" at all- or if it should be hidden, or given in significantly more granular fashion. Like, "OK," "banged up," "a little sore," "tired," things like that. Seems unrealistic that one would know that a player is specifically 95% rested.