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closer-a-rama · 12-21-2003, 08:13 PM

Hello baseball fans,

I'm now running through the game a second time with a reliever and I'm beginning to wonder if the logic in the game was ever meant to handle this choice of a career.

Here's just the latest example:

My pitcher is drafter by KC (ugh) then procedes to develop into a strikeout machine in the minors. Averaging OVER 2 k's per inning. Yet the 5 years I'm with them, all they do is call me up when the rosters expand to do mop up relief. Every year with them, the team loses around 100 games, never in contention, yet all I do is dominate in the minors (as a set-up man) and then mop-up in the majors.

When I'm finally a free agent (which during my last season with KC, I go to negotiate a contract and the GM tells me I'm a future hall of famer) the Diamondbacks sign me to a 3 years at close to 3 million per year! Woo-hoo! Wait....doh! They start me in their triple A team, and then....yup I'm called up at the roster expansion to mop-up and then dropped when the playoffs arive. All the while I'm still averaging 2k's per inning with a ERA around 2.

So what exactly does it take for a club to make you a main set up man or the closer? Has anyone tried becoming a closer in this game yet? What do you have to do? My skills are Velocity 100, Stuff 100, control 80, Poise 90 and yet all I do at the big leage level is mop-up relief? Something isn't right here.

On a side note, it looks like the defensive bonuses don't get added to pitchers (such as gloves and shoes) anyone else notice this?

12-21-2003, 08:13 PM	#1
closer-a-rama Bat Boy Join Date: Dec 2003 Posts: 6	The Life? of a reliever? Hello baseball fans, I'm now running through the game a second time with a reliever and I'm beginning to wonder if the logic in the game was ever meant to handle this choice of a career. Here's just the latest example: My pitcher is drafter by KC (ugh) then procedes to develop into a strikeout machine in the minors. Averaging OVER 2 k's per inning. Yet the 5 years I'm with them, all they do is call me up when the rosters expand to do mop up relief. Every year with them, the team loses around 100 games, never in contention, yet all I do is dominate in the minors (as a set-up man) and then mop-up in the majors. When I'm finally a free agent (which during my last season with KC, I go to negotiate a contract and the GM tells me I'm a future hall of famer) the Diamondbacks sign me to a 3 years at close to 3 million per year! Woo-hoo! Wait....doh! They start me in their triple A team, and then....yup I'm called up at the roster expansion to mop-up and then dropped when the playoffs arive. All the while I'm still averaging 2k's per inning with a ERA around 2. So what exactly does it take for a club to make you a main set up man or the closer? Has anyone tried becoming a closer in this game yet? What do you have to do? My skills are Velocity 100, Stuff 100, control 80, Poise 90 and yet all I do at the big leage level is mop-up relief? Something isn't right here. On a side note, it looks like the defensive bonuses don't get added to pitchers (such as gloves and shoes) anyone else notice this?