Question about Craig Biggio position eligibility

Olinorth · 07-19-2021, 07:50 PM

I'm not sure if this has been asked before (I couldn't find it on a search) but is there a design reason behind why every Craig Biggio card doesn't have at least a minimal amount of catcher ability and experience?

1) he played a large majority of his college ball, minor league, and first 3 MLB seasons at catcher.

2) Over his 20 year MLB career, over 15% of his total games played were started at catcher and nearly 12% of those total games player were complete games at catcher. That's no small number of games and those percentages only go up the earlier you go away from his retirement.

3) he wasn't moved from catcher due to a lack of ability as much as trying to keep his bat in the lineup to save his body from the positional grind.

I'm not saying that he should be setting the world on fire at catcher and I'm not trying to imply that by the end of his career he could just jump in a game as a catcher and play to his full potential but to pretend that he has absolutely zero catching ability at any point in a career that was built on a foundation of playing catcher? From a man with that much catcher experience that was also renowned for leaving it all on the field every play? Nothing at all?

So what gives? Intentional design decision or just oversight?

Matt Arnold · 07-19-2021, 08:05 PM

Individual season fielding ratings are based on where they played. So for a card in a season he didn't catch, he has no catcher ratings there.

Olinorth · 07-20-2021, 02:05 PM

good to know

07-19-2021, 07:50 PM	#1
Olinorth Bat Boy Join Date: Jul 2019 Posts: 19	Question about Craig Biggio position eligibility I'm not sure if this has been asked before (I couldn't find it on a search) but is there a design reason behind why every Craig Biggio card doesn't have at least a minimal amount of catcher ability and experience? 1) he played a large majority of his college ball, minor league, and first 3 MLB seasons at catcher. 2) Over his 20 year MLB career, over 15% of his total games played were started at catcher and nearly 12% of those total games player were complete games at catcher. That's no small number of games and those percentages only go up the earlier you go away from his retirement. 3) he wasn't moved from catcher due to a lack of ability as much as trying to keep his bat in the lineup to save his body from the positional grind. I'm not saying that he should be setting the world on fire at catcher and I'm not trying to imply that by the end of his career he could just jump in a game as a catcher and play to his full potential but to pretend that he has absolutely zero catching ability at any point in a career that was built on a foundation of playing catcher? From a man with that much catcher experience that was also renowned for leaving it all on the field every play? Nothing at all? So what gives? Intentional design decision or just oversight?

07-19-2021, 08:05 PM	#2
Matt Arnold OOTP Developer Join Date: Jun 2009 Location: Here and there Posts: 15,713	Individual season fielding ratings are based on where they played. So for a card in a season he didn't catch, he has no catcher ratings there.

07-20-2021, 02:05 PM	#3
Olinorth Bat Boy Join Date: Jul 2019 Posts: 19	good to know