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02-20-2016, 10:57 AM | #1 |
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Foreign coach issue
Any luck with this issue being fixed in 17?
MLB teams signing Honkbaal and Korean minor league coaches as managers and coaches. Mexican Coaches managing Japanese teams. After a few years, each league is filled with nothing but foreign coaching. PLEASE assign a % like you do with foreign born players in certain leagues. It would be fun to see the random Bobby Valentine go to another country and try managing. Its not fun when you see the Mets just hired an a Australian rookie manager. Also another issue is ex pitchers being hired as hitting coaches and ex hitters as pitching coaches. Seeing Greg Maddux get hired as a hitting coach isn't realistic. I think when ex players become coaches and are assigned as "Bench coach", that causes an issue. Bench coaches are ambiguous in skill and also get hired as both hitting and pitching coaches. So when Barry Bonds gets labeled bench coach, he can become a pitching coach. PS How about when a Manager is fired, most if not all of the coaches get fired with him like in real life. Allow the new Manager to hire his own men. |
02-20-2016, 12:23 PM | #2 | |
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This x100. A percentage selector for foreign managers is needed.
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02-20-2016, 01:01 PM | #3 |
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Another suggestion I made was to use the a "language" trait which already exists in the profile and which is used to create names for generated players. Make it possible for players to have a second or third language that they can speak; if a given Japanese coach speaks English, fine, you can hire him in the US (and vice versa), but most won't.
Moreover, this could change over time: so that if, say, a Mexican player is playing in the majors for ten years, the odds are good that he will learn English well enough to be a coach someday, whereas a guy that has spent his whole life and career in Cuba is probably not going to be able to come to the US and be named the Yankees manager. |
02-20-2016, 04:39 PM | #4 |
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The language idea is solid Frang. Add languages spoke in the personality area with intelligence and greed etc...
Hensley Meulens speaks 5 languages. Xander Bogaerts 4. If the game implemented your suggestion, Meulens as a player fizzles out of MLB, but maybe has a better chance in the Japanese league speaking the language than other players have in real life, sometimes due to language barrier and culture shock. Bogaerts finishes a 20 year career in the Majors. Him speaking Dutch would make more sense if he retired with his millions to the Netherlands and became a manager to keep him busy. Languages could at least help convince myself of scenarios mentioned above with some of the games hiring and handling of coaches. |
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