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12-07-2018, 02:42 PM | #1 |
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Hernandez at short?
I have a player in my league who starts Keith Hernandez at SS. Now I know he has good fielding atributes but he is left handed. Does the game account for this? Probably not but it just seems weird that we could do this. Would he end up a top SS like he is a first baseman? Has anyone else ever done this?....
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12-07-2018, 02:43 PM | #2 |
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A left handed thrower will always be rated 0 at SS.
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12-07-2018, 03:18 PM | #3 |
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Are we in the same league, Zorro, or is this happening in more than one?
[EDIT: Just saw in another thread that you are in a different league. The NY Magpies in AE have also been doing this, with a LOT of success] I was wondering if the change was going to persist or if Hernandez was being trained up to eventually become a multi-purpose backup option. Last edited by Dogberry99; 12-07-2018 at 03:20 PM. |
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12-07-2018, 05:04 PM | #7 |
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12-07-2018, 05:08 PM | #10 |
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I guess it should not matter to me but if that is the truth I do not like that at all. Next will be left handed catchers to juke the system.
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12-07-2018, 05:34 PM | #11 |
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Hmm, will have to look into that. Pretty sure that we shouldn't allow lefty throwing players to play the left side of the infield. At least, no modern lefties - times were different in the 1800s and very early 1900s.
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12-07-2018, 05:46 PM | #12 |
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There are no lefty 2B either. And almost no catchers. Don't remember the last one.
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12-07-2018, 06:03 PM | #13 |
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Personally, I think it is ridiculous that Keith Hernandez could be rated 60+ at shortstop. This again points out that position learning should be disabled in PT, or at least it should be very hard to learn a position that is harder on the defensive spectrum than the player's current position. There is no value to utility players if every player can learn every position.
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12-07-2018, 06:15 PM | #14 |
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I'm in AE and falling further behind the damn Magpies with another loss.....playing them right now in a four game series....
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Now, that does bring up an interesting point, of how much we should allow players to play "out of position" and learn a new position. Should a guy be allowed to learn a position he never played in real life? But what about a guy like Jim Wynn (1969 card). His card only has a CF rating, but I can easily train him to play LF or RF. In some ways maybe we shouldn't be allowed to, but on the other hand, he did play 300 games each at those spots in his career. I think in general I like the fact that guys can shift over - the whole thing is a what-if game, so I like dreaming of a DiMaggio-Trout-Mantle OF. But it does somewhat diminish the value of the actual utility players in the game if you can train anyone to be a super-sub. Like I'm training a Tulo card to play all the infield positions, even if he's never played another position in MLB other than SS. |
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12-07-2018, 06:38 PM | #18 |
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I agree. I believe my current impression is that Hernandez having a rating at SS is a bug, not a feature
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12-07-2018, 06:39 PM | #20 |
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Another question to consider is whether or not ratings should change when a player is out of position. I know Stuff changes for starters forced into a relief role, but I am not aware of any other examples of this in PT. Allowing ratings to change for positional shifts could act as an appropriate nerf to Hernandez if his range dropped some with the move to SS while not affecting his range or overall play at 1B.
I'm not sure that this is keeping in the spirit of the mode of play though, nor do I think that I, personally, would like this. Last edited by Dogberry99; 12-07-2018 at 07:24 PM. Reason: Clarity (Hopefully) |
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