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It’s… sort of random, you don’t get to pick and sometimes your best player never gets the opportunity to get called up. That’s been a part of the mode since ‘20 if not earlier (can’t check now that the servers are gone). The best you can hope for is if the opportunity arises, send down one of your top players and there’s a decent chance the game will offer to get them called up with a chance to boost. That works even for players who manifestly don’t need boosts like, say, Mike Trout, who always will get called back up immediately and doesn’t take much to get him boosted to max and end up hitting 56 home runs without you controlling him much.

This bug was present at launch last year too, which I think was related to the option to save and exit mid-game, which the game allows and does not give you an advantage really. In fact since you have no control over pitching changes in player lock moments and you are asked to throw 130+ pitches to preserve a pointless shutout sometimes it’s more of a necessity than superfluous.

Haven’t tried to do that yet this version, but you have so little control over things in mto that there’s not much exploitative actions you can do. I can’t even ensure that there’s going to be a lefty in my bullpen for the playoffs despite having 3 on the last day of my season, and got walked off 3 times in the ALDS without the ability to bring in someone to face a lineup made of lefty hitters. Not to mention that you’d be put into the game with a platoon disadvantage and stars on the bench in postseason games needing to make up multiple runs all the time. And you can’t even substitute until they throw you a pitch. Tired of Mickey Moniak having to hit lefty relievers in the postseason close and late with Mike Trout somehow on the bench.