Player Decline

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Quote: Originally Posted by Prior

Lets say a hitter in his mid 30's sees an overall rating decline of five points. Would each individual category, such as speed and contact vs RHP, only be effected by a point or two?

I'm probably not the most informed person to ask.

But judging by half the season I've played in my Giants franchise. Guys like Zito, Vogelsong and Lopez who are all in their mid 30's have experience a decrease of up to 5 points in some attributes. As far as I can remember, all of the attributes have decreased bar one or two I think. But 95% of them decreased between 3 and 5 points.

As I'm only in June now...I've started making some preparations that those guys won't be in the team next year...at least not the MLB team.

What sucks though is...that chances that a guy like Zito will retire as a MLB Giants player are very slim. I'll either have to cut him loose...or send him down to AAA.

There is no point of keeping a guy in the team that will decrease 10-15 points overall just for loyalty's sake.

I'm hoping he retires end of this season...as even with his rapidly decreasing attributes...he is doing a pretty good job as a reliever at the moment. Hoping he can finish his career with some good perfomances and retire end of this season.

Vogelsong is still in my rotation, though he decreased to 80 overall. I have two Top 50 A potential starting pitcher prospects in triple AAA which I'm planning on letting loose next season...I'm doing this because I want to give them a fair shot at rookie of the year.

Though I don't have that big of a complaint on the player regression this year...seems realistic to a point...what bothers me is that no matter what, that every player will retire as a worthless reject. Though any sportsman regresses as he becomes older...a 38 year old Jeter is still a good player to have...though in this game he becomes a player who should feel ashamed of himself.

Maybe they could have a regression cap as well...just as they have a cap on expected progression...they could say that Jeter would balance out regressing to an 80 overall. If he has a seriously bad season that could worsen down to 75. While an unkown player would balance out at 60 or something.

[A7Xraider]

im 55 games into my season and Scutaro has gone from an 85 to a 74...that's waaaay too much. lopez affeldt zito vogey all have declined as well. crawford sandoval have increased very slightly. none of these players are having declining seasons