Posted by MikeT23 on 6/1/2012 2:32:00 PM (view original):
Your entire argument goes back to what I stated after your first post. Fatigue becomes an issue at some point in the season for pretty much everyone. Not in the beginning, which is why no one would start with 40, but eventually. By allowing the back and forth with no penalty, fatigue is no longer an issue. Your suggestion eliminates fatigue from the game. If you're going to eliminate fatigue, why bother with DUR/STM ratings?
Fatigue is an issue in MLB, too. One of the common solutions is it to call up players from AAA in July/August. If you watched much MLB, you'd probably notice that it's common for a P to start 1 or 2 games in the summer & then go back to AAA. And to see a utility IF or PH who's on the ML club for just 1-2 weeks. Or if a team has a lot of LH sluggers, for a team to bring up an extra LHP when they have 2 series against them over a 10-14 day period.
Other players are demoted, designated (risking them being waiver claimed), released (maybe to be resigned in a few days) to allow for this. Those players don't run slower or give up more home runs what they are removed from the ML team. It's part of the game. They know their place in the game. They are paid hundreds of thousands of dollars a year to be a 25th man. Conservatively, likely 10X more than their next best job opportunity.
MinL call ups are one of the ways to rest players in MLB. It doesn't take fatigue out of the game. It gives GMs a way to deal with it. A way that's not really available in HBD, because of the likely demotion penalty. (We both know there isn't always a demotion penalty.)
As I posted earlier, the MLB model rewards depth. One more advantage to drafting well & having good coaching. Grow your own 24-27 men & rotate them up & down for a few years. After 6 years, if they think they are better than that & the GM is messing with their career, they can go FA.
No matter how many times you type it, the MLB model isn't less strategy than the HBD model. It does reward a different strategy.
Please take a moment to look at MLB stats from the past few seasons before you reply. See how many players are on the average MLB ML roster over a season compared to how many are on an HBD ML roster. It's not even close.