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Originally Posted by Syd Thrift
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That's a good point, we can turn it off. So I just played a game with it disabled. I missed it. Having to look ahead, maybe not warming them up soon enough, and then maybe giving up more runs then you might have if you could have just inserted the reliever as soon as you wanted, almost feels like cheating now.
For example, the game I just played we were up by 3 in the 9th and our reliever gave up a hard hit with no outs. With the option on, I may have only started warming up my closer after that first hit (I may have started warming him up the inning before, but maybe not). And instead of being forced to warm him up and maybe giving up another couple of hits (I find warming up a reliever takes a minimum of 2 PAs, some times more), I was able to bring him in right away and he shut them down in quick order. Had I been forced to warm him up first, there's a good chance we would have given up 2 runs and it would have been a nail biter.
I realize the option wasn't always there, but now it feels like selecting a lower difficulty level. I just can't help feel it needs a little tweaking. It's one of the few things in the game that really makes you feel like an in-game manager. I also like that it gives you recommendations as to whom you should warm up.
And I do think it, some times, takes players longer to warm up. I wonder if maybe the game is taking into consideration longer plate appearances vs other times because I haven't really identified any specific players as routinely taking a longer or shorter time to warm up than others, but some times I am surprised it took less time than I thought it would.