I'm in July in my Franchise and even though im only controlling one team i try to keep the league close to reality which includes manually injuring players who got injured in real life and trying to provoke the CPU to call up prospects like Correa if they are still in the minors in the game.
While trying to make the Astros call up Correa a few weeks back i already encountered that problem:
The CPU doesnt put players i manually injured on the DL.
To get them to call up Correa I made sure his Overall was higher than any of the other options and then I manually injured Jed Lowrie, Marwin Gonzalez and Jonathan Villar and thought now they have to call up Correa. Well, no, I simulated two days ahead and see that the Astros have not put a single of those mentioned players on the DL even though they're all out for months, they havent called up Correa either, they have Catcher Hank Conger starting at SS.
Like really? What is going on?
I just ended up giving up on Correa and now i have a series coming up against the Athletics.
In my franchise, they have Cody Ross, Coco Crisp and Josh Reddick starting in the outfield, with Craig Gentry as DH.
Makes me wanna cry.
So I did the same thing again, i injured Ross, Crisp, Gentry and Fuld hoping the A's would call up Billy Burns and Mark Canha.
Nope, not happening, they had Fuld playing in Left and 2B Tyler Ladendorf. Okay, Fuld only had a cold, so i gave him a more severe injury and injured Ladendorf aswell.
Still nothing, the A's are now starting Cody Ross in CF even though he has a dislocated ankle and Catcher Josh Phegley is starting in left field.
Is anybody else having these problems too?
This is really bugging me and destroying my franchise.
Any way to work around this? I have tried to put them on the DL myself but I was unable to do that, not sure if you were able to do that in the previous games but I have some memories of being able to do that.