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Originally Posted by jberg57
I guess what I am asking for from Devs is a toggle in the Strategy tab for Players when not starting at primary position can they be the DH?
I'd much rather my 80/80 catcher who is a little fatigued play DH instead of the bench. Instead I have my best hitter sitting and a 50/80 starting at DH.
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I definitely think we should have a mechanism of sorts for outliers, of a lot of kinds. But I'm not sure DHing him, even if you did it manually, would help much. I kind of think DHing should help fatigue some and I just don't think it does. I mean, I think it's less fatiguing than playing a position, sure, but even with DHing my best older player he still needs to sit some days for whatever reason.
If you look at real life players known for mainly DHing certain years of their careers (e.g., DO, EM, FT, HB) it was pretty rare for even them to play close to 160 games (they did some years, but not as many as we might think). And they weren't catchers on top of it. So maybe OOTP has it right. I just wish we could push them a bit more, but I guess we maybe can if we just ignore the days they're yellow.
What you maybe should consider is flipping the situation. Make him your primary DH and only have him catch the days your other catcher needs rest. That's what I would probably do if he was my best hitter. I get that having a great hitting catcher is a huge plus, but if he's also your best hitter the priority is to have him in the lineup as much as possible.