Can we fix this feature so that it actually works?  So that my left handed specialist will come in to face ONLY left handers and then get pulled if a right hander comes up.

I have brought this us before in a help ticket, and the answer I got was something along the tlines of "the engine decided that your LHS was a better matchup against the right handed hitter than other pitchers in your bullpen."  What!?!   If I want the engine to decide for that pitcher I will just set him as a Setup man. 

So, this means you are for or against?

I could be wrong, but I picture the engine doing this.  When a new pitcher is needed, the engine looks at who is coming up next, and looks at all the ratings of your bullpen setup men and specialists.  It then ranks them based on those attributes and puts in the best matchup.  Then once that pitcher is in the game he will go until he hits his pitch count or gets in trouble.    If this is true, then I think that all setting LHS does is give that particular pitcher a slight bump in the rankings vs left handed hitters, but otherwise treats him exactly the same as a setup man.  Then I think that once the LHS is in the game, the engine "forgets' he is a LHS, and just uses him like any other setup man.

So to fix this, I would do two things:

1)  Move the LHS to the bottom of all of setup men in this ranking list, regardless of ratings, against right handers.  I only want my LHP to come in to face a right handed hitter if he is the only setup man left, and if this happens his internal tag for this game should be changed to regular setup man.

2)  Immediately pull when a right hander comes up to bat, unless he originally came in to face a righthander which means his internal tag for thius game has been changed to setup man..

Yeah I'm guessing alot of us wish they could implement this effectively.

Posted by apollo7 on 6/27/2010 10:42:00 AM (view original):

Posted by mitchrapp on 6/27/2010 10:27:00 AM (view original):
I'm not against though I'm not so sure I really care.

Then whey are you posting a comment here?

I didn't realize I wasn't allowed to post without having a strong opinion either way.

Oh I remember now, because it's a ******* forum and I'm allowed too. Great, now that that's settles.

I love these new smileys.    Thiis is mitchrapp: 

Never got an LHS to work. But my RHS led my club in IP last season, and was arguably my second-best reliever overall. He did face some lefties -- maybe about 5% of the batters he faced overall -- but ultimately I was very happy with the results.

I was always able to get it to work, assuming you had BOTH a RHS and a LHS and set their pitch counts/pull ratings appropriately.