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Being someone who has played out every inning of every game of his team's 9 year history I have seen where there is some effect already in there. I have no clue what combination of what ratings cause this effect but I have seen my longest tenured SP go from back to back 30 win seasons with one catcher (30-3, 30-5 with 7 of the 8 losses coming with the backup catcher behind the plate), then the next 3 years was pretty mediocre with another catcher after I traded away the first one (so mediocre I almost traded him), and now he is back on pace for 30 wins with my young catcher. Last season he was at 4-4 when I decided to try the rookie catcher and the pitcher then went on a 14 game winning streak and became the best pitcher I had (which is saying something since my #1 pitcher is ranked #2 in the entire majors). This season he continued where he left off last season.
The common traits of the 2 catchers he has had success with are extremely high intelligence levels and good work ethic. The pitcher has an extremely low intelligence rating and so-so work ethic.
The other SP's I have had have not been impacted by any catchers so it can't be said that any catcher will have an effect on every pitcher because he won't, but there are those that will effect one pitcher, be it in a good way or bad.
Markus said he hasn't programmed any catcher effect, which is good because if one tried to do it they would probably end off having too much of an effect, but something in the numbers crunching that does cause an effect in some cases.
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