2K7 Pitcher Injuries and CPU Trading

[JBH3]

Last year's game was sooo frustrating to me with respect to pitchers never getting injured and the CPU making 10 trades a month.

Does anyone know if this aspect has been fixed?

I simmed through a couple seasons where rarely I had a pitcher injured, and the CPU teams rarely had pitchers injured as well. Not to mention that if you opted to leave the CPU intiated trades on when starting your franchise that they would make stupid trades like every couple of weeks up until the trade deadline.

Guys like A-ROD and Bonds were being traded like they were disposable role players. With MVP by EA injuries and trades were more natural, and if you turned the cpu trades option off they wouldn't make trades. I remember in 2K6 when you started your franchise and left CPU trades on you then couldn't turn it off in the middle of a season if you wanted to. I like to leave it off till about a month or so before the deadline so that these stupid trades aren't going on all season.

What is you all's take on this? I really look forward to hearing what everyone has to say.

[baa7]

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Last year's game was sooo frustrating to me with respect to pitchers never getting injured

That's a problem in a lot of games: certain positions never get injured. It's a big part of the game, but it's no doubt one of those low priority issues that probably got overlooked this year - my guess, anyway.

[baa7]

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Guys like A-ROD and Bonds were being traded like they were disposable role players.

Two no-so-great examples don't you think? A-Rod was being shopped around (in the media at least) while nobody seemed interested in Bonds this off-season. But I get your point.

[DaoudS]

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they said they revamped the franchise mode...so i THINK they might have fixed it

[Gary Armida]

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The trading and the frustrating lineup AI are two rough sports in this game. I really hope this has been tweaked a bit. Probably not, but I can hope.

[Qb]

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It is really unfortunate that pitcher injuries are not really present in this game. Speaking as a Pirates fan, THEY HAPPEN A LOT and FOR A REAL LONG TIME!!! Let's see, Sean Burnett (2 years), John "The Bucs should have me playing RF because I can flat out hit" Van Benschoten (2 years), Tom Gorzelanny & Zach Duke (on and off arm soreness ended seasons early), Kip Wells was always hurt and to top things off, our first round pick a big, hard throwing righty can't throw yet this spring because of "minor-elbow irritation". Oh that sounds great...

And for those who don't follow/care about the Pirates, two names that you all should know will back up my point. Wood and Prior, enough said. Pitchers should go down often if you want realism, with many missing a full year.

edit: Forgot Bryan Bullington, 2002 #1 overall pick who I don't think has ever pitched a full season in the minors due to arm/shoulder injuries... Burnett, Van Benschoten and Bullington are all "healthy" for the first time in years, according to reports out of spring camp. Yeah right.

[ComfortablyLomb]

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That's a problem in a lot of games: certain positions never get injured. It's a big part of the game, but it's no doubt one of those low priority issues that probably got overlooked this year - my guess, anyway.

Or you could be All Star Baseball 2000 where I had pitchers going down left and right because I was riding them waaay into the red on their stamina bar.

[Qb]

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Or you could be All Star Baseball 2000 where I had pitchers going down left and right because I was riding them waaay into the red on their stamina bar.

As it should be. A lot of pitcher injuries in real life result from just that reason. Remember all the heat Jack McKeon took for leaving his young pitchers out there for so long when the Marlins won it a few years ago? That's why. Nothing kills a pitchers arm like too many innings...

[JBH3]

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I loved the depth of franchise play in All Star Baseball. I wish that there was one game that was a conglomorate of everthing we like about all of the baseball titles which have came out.

The MVP gameplay engine, the MVP stadium builder, the 2K and All-Star baseball franchise modes.

Really all I can say is that this 2K7 for 360 better be "Next Gen".

[ComfortablyLomb]

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As it should be. A lot of pitcher injuries in real life result from just that reason. Remember all the heat Jack McKeon took for leaving his young pitchers out there for so long when the Marlins won it a few years ago? That's why. Nothing kills a pitchers arm like too many innings...

Oh, don't get me wrong, I agree. Jeff Fassero of all pitchers never would have been a hero for me in that game if not for the injuries to my starters that gave him a chance to go 150 innings. He Tommy Glavine'd his way through batters dumping sinkers and forkballs over the outer half of the plate. He's up there with Mike Maddux in WS Baseball '95 as my all-time greatest unlikely video game star. The point being, given the lack of injuries in most games these days, he never would have had a chance to go bonkers like that and there would be no story.

[Qb]

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Oh, don't get me wrong, I agree. Jeff Fassero of all pitchers never would have been a hero for me in that game if not for the injuries to my starters that gave him a chance to go 150 innings. He Tommy Glavine'd his way through batters dumping sinkers and forkballs over the outer half of the plate. He's up there with Mike Maddux in WS Baseball '95 as my all-time greatest unlikely video game star. The point being, given the lack of injuries in most games these days, he never would have had a chance to go bonkers like that and there would be no story.

Couldn't agree more as that's the fun part of injuries. Sure it sucks to lose a player, but it gives someone a chance to step up. I for one actually like when a guy goes down, in a sick, perverse kind of way due to this (videogames only, here's to a 100% healthy Pirates season. A guy can dream, right?).

[JBH3]

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Couldn't agree more as that's the fun part of injuries. Sure it sucks to lose a player, but it gives someone a chance to step up. I for one actually like when a guy goes down, in a sick, perverse kind of way due to this (videogames only, here's to a 100% healthy Pirates season. A guy can dream, right?).

Dude I couldn't agree with you more. I look forward to guys getting injured because I want to bring up some young talent, or take advantage of good depth.

The only thing that really ever pissed me off injury wise was with All Star Baseball on the PS2. One year I had two guys on the same team at the same time go down with Glaucoma. Injuries that get that stupid are irratating and retarted.

But yea... I want realistic injuries, and I want them to happen as frequently as they do in the real game. I want there to be injuries like Kevin Brown punching the wall in the dugout and messing up his hand, or that guy on the Rockies who was leading the NL in avg until he fell down the stairs while carrying his groceries. It cannot possibly be that hard to program random injuries like that into the game, and just make them a bit more isolated. That way it doesn't happen every season, and doesn't happen that often, but it happens.

This is "NEXT GEN" right?