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I have to admit, I've seen these complaints before and just assumed players were talking about 1 of 2 things...either the temporary position change that happens to every player, or they didn't build their player correctly, which I've personally done before. That said, this happened to me last night, and I'm livid about it. I have 8 RTTS players that I cycle through. Yesterday, I started playing my Control Freak SP, playing Spring Training in his 2nd season. About halfway through Spring Training, the skipper calls me in and tells me they're going to move me to Closer. I definitely don't want to be a Closer with this player, as I already have a Closer that I play...don't want 2 of them. But, I go along, thinking it's going to be temporary. Same day, my agent calls me and asks my thoughts about it. I tell him I want nothing to do with Closer, I want to be a starter. So, I played the ENTIRE [censored] season as a Closer, without so much as hearing back from my agent...the whole [censored] year. Then, after the season ends, I'm offered a 5-year contract as a Closer. I try negotiating it, and of course, get declined, and have to accept 5 years. THEN I hear back from my agent, and I tell him, I want to be a starter, or I want out of Detroit. His response: "[censored] son, there's nothing I can do for you, you just signed a 5 year deal". As FYI, this Starter plays for the Tigers, and his baseline attributes were solid enough for him to be #2 starter behind Fulmer, even as a 2nd year guy.

There are so many problems with this. Even for those making the argument "that's baseball"...well, no, it isn't. In real life, if your agent doesn't contact you about an issue you've raised with him, for the whole season, you fire that agent and get a new one. Hell, if it went on for a month, you fire him. There is no argument or justification for this. The system is flawed. The fact that your agent contacts you in the offseason, every year, AFTER you've already signed a contract, just makes no sense at all. What is the point of having an agent?

What is the solution?

Add a gameplay setting to toggle permanent role changes off/on. That way, players that like the "realism" of being forced into a different role can still have it, and everybody else can remain in their chosen position.

Give the agent more pull early in the season, while trades are still happening, and when the issue is fresh. If I tell my agent in Spring Training that I don't like the position change, I want to hear back within a month, at the latest. My request for a trade should be made right then, not in November.

The offseason conversation with the agent needs to move to BEFORE your contract offers. That way, he can try to address your concerns before it's too late. Why in the world are we telling our agent we want to be traded or moved to our preferred position after the contract is signed?

@Lone_Gun_Mann said in Starting Build for Personality:

I'm doing much better in my 3rd year. Think I figured it out. I use directional hitting. I'm terrible with PCI. I've been at .350 for the month of April and I'm hitting for power.

I've switched back and forth, but focus on using the PCI. I rarely move it, though. Only if I have an advantage in the count and I'm looking for a specific pitch in a specific spot. Once you get your vision and contact high enough, you can cover most of the plate without having to move the PCI much.

I have always hated when you have a runner on second with 1st and 3rd open and lay down a bunt---runner on 2nd goes back to 2nd instead of advancing....WTF!!

@ImDFC said in Home run animation:

Certain No doubt animations are stance specific. For example, the Manny Ramirez animation is tied to his stance (All-Star 107).

Yeah, I hate that. If I’m making a RTTS player, I want to select the home run animation I want instead of it being shackled to a stance. The provided ones are mostly ridiculous and unrealistic, at least in the 2019 version.

I did get recognition for a 50/50, but I hit the HR after having the steals.

I impatient waiting for an answer. I played though it. I did not reinsure myself. I played very passive. Believe it was 7 days to recover fully. I did hit two homers in that process. That's my 2nd injury in my career so I'm trying to build up that durability.

Update: 10 games and 14 rbi later, they finally said something about it.
Still nothing about my stolen bases record and I'm at 150 and counting now.

@Lone_Gun_Mann said in How much is your position player drawing walks?:

74 walks. Once I get two strikes I go into to contact mode until I get a pitch I guess right.

I usually do the same thing.

The one that bothers me the most is when my SS is standing next to the 3B about 5 feet away and i can't move him very far and the ball is always hit up the middle for a hit

Yeah, I use equipment. If I start outplaying my attributes, I can always up the difficulty or play with sliders.

turn down trade slider if you don't want to be randomly traded... took me 2 attempts creating a new player before I figured it out

@Lone_Gun_Mann said in RTTS Draft Unrandomness:

Same got drafted by the Tigers, Marlins, and Rockies. Terrible. But then I started over and got drafted by the Angels. Was really excited about that, but pissed off my manager and got traded to the Dbacks. Wish I got dealt to a hitters ballpark.

Rockies is a hitter's ballpark, no? I hit 30 HR's in 350 AB's as a "Small Ball" guy.

Excellent point. Maybe next year they will code in some transition calculations from certain pitches to others, eg curve to slurve or fastball to running fastball etc so you only drop say 20% from the attribute points on those transitions. Would just need to have it read from a data table when selecting to swap a pitch. Simple enough.

EDIT: would need to compare new pitch to all pitches in player’s repertoire, not just pitch being dropped. This logic could also apply to adding a new pitch.

Your pitcher must have a sub-Archetype of "Pure Power".

Other people are mentioning same problem on OSF.

@pogibana said in Lack of basics:

The closer coming into the game in early innings or in a blowout is happening in MLB games so your explanation is totally wrong for this game. By the way I know about minor league game because i go to them frequently. There is AA team about 45 minute drive from me. the bobbles I see in this game is more what I have seen in little league than minor league professionals.I did not say SP were not going 5 inning what I said was they go 3-8 days between starts instead of the every 5th game. before you respond try reading first.

I've had major league pressbox credentials and lived and gone to multiple minor league games and spring training games, including B games, so my anecdotal knowledge is better than yours 😉

But hey, the closer is the closer because he is the closer. (And you'll earn a brownie point if you recognize the baseball book that's from.)

Saw this in the 1.09 patch notes last night:

Fixed an issue where middle infielders in an extreme shift were not fielding batted balls they should have.

Maybe it's a fix???