I'll throw my opinion in here. I'm not an OOTP employee either, but I guess some people may regard me as closer to an OOTP employee than most, but YMMV.
Anyway, I'm sorry to hear you're disappointed in this thread. As molarmite pointed out, none of the responses here were from anyone associated with the product, so please don't let that affect your opinion of the game or the company!
Meanwhile, I do know that I've seen this happen in real life. In fact, I've seen it happen within the past month, as someone put Ryan Howard on intentionally as the tying run in the 9th inning of a game against the Phillies, to pitch to Pat Burrell. (Hey, I'd do it.
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So, I'd be against removing it from the game entirely, but if someone could post a game log or something with a little more information, that would be helpful to bring back to Markus. For example, if you can show me in a game log where it happened, as well as a player report for the player who was walked, it could go a long way to finding a good place to tweak the AI. As Mattymo said, if this is happening regularly, I think it should be brought up to Markus.
Thanks very much,
Steve