[Lukas Berger]

I think it's important to realize that there is not one magic development and aging setting that will be able to fully recreate the entirety of baseball history in a given long-term sim.

If you look at baseball history, there were probably something like 6-7, if not more, fully different eras where aging and development were radically different.

The default setting can't have both dozens of batters playing to their early to mid-40's with no diminishment of their skills like in the steroid era, and an unusual amount of batters peaking and fully developed in their early 20's while mostly being toast by their mid-30's like the modern era.

Or SP's pitching long enough to get 300 to 350 wins like those in the 1970's and earlier, but also have guys not able to even get 200 for the most part like modern day.

To do this, you'd really need to frequently switch development and financial and other settings to recreate specific eras.

Basically the default settings are trying to get an environment that's relatively neutral, but shaded toward modern day. I think they're doing a pretty good job of that right now.

That's not to say we won't still make some tweaks here. There are definitely a few things still on our lists to adjust in the next few patches, especially in regard to outliers (creating more of them).