[Pelican]

In my experience, the AI seems to know the drill for Spring Training, not only for SP, but in terms of giving innings to a number of pitchers and at-bats to lots of position players. So, why has your experience been like regular season? Hmmmm.

Do your ST games appear on the schedule as “exhibition” games and not regular season? That’s the hint the AI needs. (One sim, I set up a whole ST schedule, but as “regular season” games. So of course the Ai responded as if they were regular season games.)

Are you playing with expanded Spring rosters of forty or fifty or more players? That is another strong hint to the AI that ST rules apply, and as many players as possible should get into the game.

One thing to watch for is that the AI apparently lacks the ability to transition from ST to the regular season and Opening Day. It won’t line up you rotation so your SP1 is rested and ready to start the season. This may be what happened to Rpgmasta above. I am careful to rest my starters late in the Spring, and to “align” my rotation. On Opening Day, I set the rotation and daily lineups, just to be sure.