I've been a casual player of
OOTP for a while but only started playing with career manager (non-commish) mode recently with
OOTP 9. So far this is what I'm experiencing. Hopefully someone can tell me what I'm doing wrong.
Tooling along just fine in my 1st season as a AA manager. All of a sudden I lose a starting pitcher to a 12-month injury. Now, I know there's no minor league DL, and it looks like the for vs. against argument has been raging for some time...don't want to repeat that here. But the injured pitcher just sat there on my roster and since I didn't have the capability to add a replacement pitcher, I moved on with a 4-man rotation.
Then, I lose a second starter to a 6-month injury. Same problem - no replacement. Only this time it starts forcing my team to over-use relievers to pick up the slack. And guess what starts happening when you overwork tired relievers? They get injured. So begins the death spiral. I got a few call-ups throughout the remainder of the season but never enough to properly field a team, because one after the other the pitchers that still had usable arms eventually went down with 2-week / 6-week / career-ending injuries. My season ended with a 14 out of a 100 score and a "You can do better than that!"
Well, can I? Was there something I should have done to prevent this? Am I the victim of a bug or an AI not programmed to gauge the viability of its minor league teams? Or is there some cue I'm supposed to be giving the AI-controlled GM that says "hey, can I get some new blood down here?"