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Originally Posted by Spritze
Plannine: Any idea what further adjustments should be made to get Cy Young up to snuff? I notice a similar thing with Warren Spahn. In his case his stuff rating appears too low and if I up it manually his career falls into line. I think it may be similar to Mr. Youngs challenge. I am wondering if the factors that make up the stuff rating should not be altered to create more spread between good stuff and mediocre stuff. It doesn't take much of a change to get Spahn to have his career. He is on the high side of mediocre but there are a lot of pitchers close to there. If I get him on the low side of good stuff he fares much better.
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In a few test runs, the only way i've found with Cy is to reduce his age!!! Make him 10 years younger, and he seems stay a top pitcher for the whole decade. but not The Top Pitcher......
Many of the pitchers who do well after age 35, fail in OOTP (Niekro, Hough, Ryan, Plank, Wilhelm) in their careers. While Nolan Ryan gets near his numbers in total, usually (for me), most of the great seasons will be bunched together, and better then his actual season totals and he rarely last past 1988. Rich Reuschel is usually gone years before his final season.
I would think Clemens, Randy Johnson and Jamie Moyer would do the same in modern years.