I am very aggressive on the bases. I’m an offline only player because the internet services where I live are horrendous. I personally play this game the same way I coach it in real life, small ball. Hit & runs, suicide squeezes, steals, sac bunts, hit behind runners, etc. I know that would be frowned upon in online play, but I don’t play online so it’s not hurting anyone.
I can imagine people do exploit it in online play. And I have no issue with say cover athlete Miggy getting picked off if he takes an extra step. But for example, AS Lofton, shouldn’t get picked off 2nd base (even with 1 extra step) 40% of the time. And shouldn’t get picked off 2nd base 20% without an extra step.
I’m not an online player, so I’m not quite sure the exact ways it gets exploited online, but you should get penalized for doing dumb things with bad base runners. But Henderson, Lofton, Rollins, etc, shouldn’t be handicapped so significantly in my opinion.
Also, please don’t take this as me arguing or bitching at you, just discussion, and admittedly, frustrated, because I’m not exploiting the game offline, just playing “old school” baseball