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Originally Posted by sflcat
The Yanks' manager pulled Joltin' Joe out of the lineup??!! 
If I were the owner, I'd George Steinbrenner his butt!!! |
I had to look at the box score and the game log twice to believe it.
I'm glad the computer manager realizes when it's time to play for one run, but in this case, it went overboard. DiMaggio and O'Neil are the Yankees' two most dangerous hitters, and they're both tremendous fielders too. Neither one of them is a lumbering oaf on the basepaths; they're each at least better than average.! I can't think of a single situation, unless they were hurt and couldn't run at all, in which I'd pull either of them for a pinch runner in the top half of an inning.
I often take a look at players after they import to see if their subjective ratings match up with what I've learned about their skills. I remember reading in several places about what a great baserunner DiMaggio was, and my dad--who was an avid Red Sox fan and not inclined to praise anyone wearing Yankee pinstripes--said the young DiMaggio was one of the best baserunners he ever saw. He imported as only a little better than average, so I bumped him up. Still, the computer pulled him for a guy whose rating for base stealing is
five points better!!
The computer did the same thing to the Cardinals when it replaced Willard Brown. The player who ran for him has a base stealing rating of 2.
That's on a 100-point scale.
It's possible to program the AI to stop pinch-hitting for a player, but there doesn't seem to be anything you can do to stop the computer from inserting pinch runners except to adjust the team's overall strategy.