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Originally Posted by 1998 Yankees
I'll post later on this.
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Interesting. I created a test league, took over a team, and examined my five starters. All five at that time wanted to be starters.
I changed their positions to MR but left them in the starting rotation and simmed for a couple of months. None of them were bothered as to expected role by the position change.
Then, I moved all of them to the bullpen and put the relievers in the starting rotation. It took a while, but eventually three out of five became very unhappy over their expected roles not being met.
The interesting thing is that two of them had changed their expectations to be bullpen. The variability in this game amazes me sometimes.
Anyway, as a final test, I changed the positions of all five back to SP but left them all in the bullpen. The three malcontents did not change their attitudes at all after several more months of simulating.
Small test sample for sure, but I think it says that it's where the pitcher is on the pitching chart, not his pitching role designation, that is used to determine whether he is going to be happy or not according to his role expectation. But not absolutely, as I found out. Rather neat, that.