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Originally Posted by FantasyDrafter
I agree with most of what you say. Conservative is probably the right way to go. What seems lost is that I intentionally tried to break players and it is not possible to do. An entire organization over 20 years that tells their players to ignore running, defense, usually gap, stamina for pitchers should be obvious in my opinion. That isn’t to say some won’t sneak through this terrible set up, but if an organization that only wants to develop DHs and RP and goes out of its way to do so can not, then there are not enough consequences (or upside) for your choices imo.
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Hate to tell you but those DH/RP that a real life team tried to develop would fall into exactly what I said in my post. They would maintain the skills they already had with, maybe, some slight improvements. To make a DH you what? I assume zero out all fielding and have him only work in the cage. Ok, they weren't in the field anyway so nothing lost, or is there is it won't matter. More time in the cage, great. Keeping his current skills is likely, improving? Maybe, but not a certainty by any means. It's just not that easy.
If focus was easy Javy Baez would be walking 50 times a year instead of 25 and striking out 80 times instead of 125+++. Hell, he can't do that in a lab with a full off season.
One could say "look at Bellinger". Sure but that was off season "OOTP Lab" stuff that carried into actual games. Even with that many project he won't be able to reproduce that performance this year.
Sure since OOTP is a game this all could be done as a simple +/-. Thank god the developers want it to not be easy to get results, and more complex than simply "subtract eye, add to power".
Someone above (SirMJ?) mentioned the feature was probably miss named. I'd agree. Probably should have been called "Practice Focus".