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Originally Posted by md40022
IMO this is a little bit of a slippery slope. I agree with the OP as far as a good defensive SS can usually transition to the OF as needed.
However, if it's added into the game that every single good defensive SS can become a good defensive OFer with relative ease, things might get a little "broken" in regards to natural SSs all of a sudden being all over the OF all the time.
I'm going to use Tim Anderson as an example here. Granted, he's a mediocre defensive SS - but the computer's AI seems to love moving him to 2B despite the White Sox not really having a great SS sitting behind him. They still opt to play him at 2B a lot, for whatever the reasoning might be. If every single SS was given ratings in the OF and 2B, because IRL a true SS should be able to play those other spots, I could see the AI running absolutely wild with that. I could see just a year or two into a sim the 30 starting SS from year 1 of the sim are allllll in different positions now. While I agree with your point when talking about IRL - I just think the AI could turn this into fantasy-world real fast.
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and to take that even a step farther.... how many drafted SS would change positions in the minor leagues? I could see a scenario where 90% of position players in the minor leagues ended up being OFers because so many IFs were converted over by the AI.
I get the OP's point. Specifically in my sim from OOTP22 I had a corner IF who I really wanted to try in the RF or LF but was a little handcuffed with being able to tinker with that. I think it would be a super cool feature to expand on for the actual users, buttttttt I see so many issues with the AI going crazy with it that it might not be practical.