[Lukas Berger]

As far as stuff goes, there really is not any significant issue with development here from any of our tests. Like Matt mentions, things can always be tweaked and we'll certainly take another look or two at development in the future.

That being said, what people are seeing as an issue is really just the expected results of some changes and tweaks we've made to more closely track real-life trends. This comes in three parts, I think.

First and most important, is simply the flatter distribution of stuff in modern baseball. Basically, because everyone is throwing so hard now, it's created a situation where there are fewer and fewer pitchers who stand out from the crowd in the ability to get K's at a significantly higher rate than their peers. Everyone tends to cluster very closely around the league average in K rate and K/9, and there are few fewer outliers here than there were even a few years previously.

Second, when you couple that with our moving the 20-80 scale toward a more realistic version of the scale, where the majority of players fall into the middle of the curve, with 40-60 ratings, it means a lot of pitchers end up clustering around league average with their overall ratings.

Third, we've made the change to leave pitching potentials showing to later ages than in previous years, because there are increasingly more players who break out with significant improvements in their late 20's and early 30's. So we want to leave the potential for this to happen in the game, just as it does in reality. It shouldn't be the expectation, as most players do not see this sort of jump, but it is common enough that the possibility should be taken into account.