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Quote: Originally Posted by mkilcNYR

It's also possible that Garcia wound up with a -10 to lefties because of an extremely pronounced bad year against lefties, slumping morale, and team performance which would lead to what might have only been a -4/5 drop into one that wound up to be more dramatic (i.e. tried to break out of the slump but he wound up increasing his strikeout rate and might have been removed from games or platooned and removed against lefties which would decrease moral, etc.)

Not likely dear Watson for a couple of reasons...

(1) The devs specifically highlighted the effect and were basically bragging about how big the stat-based progression was, lol. Luis highlighted his batting average vLHP alone and then related it directly to the effect.

(2) Garcia's other attributes actually went up whereas his contact vLHP went way down. One might deduce that poor team performance etc would likewise decrease his other attributes.