Broken Bat - Suggestions: Personal Catchers

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Post ID	Date & Time	Game Date	Function

#31523	03/05/2016 3:10:58 pm
Toon Squad Joined: 07/21/2015 Posts: 255 Inactive	+1. Even if we had a catcher rotation option. Anything to allow for that.

#31547	03/06/2016 7:53:21 pm
admin Joined: 01/27/2010 Posts: 4985 Administrator	I understand that in real baseball, some pitchers have a better working relationship with some catchers. But in a game like this, what would be the point of a personal catcher? Steve

#31554	03/07/2016 12:26:52 pm
Toon Squad Joined: 07/21/2015 Posts: 255 Inactive	My thought would be to have a tool that says "rest this player every ___ games." That way, we can avoid fatigue taking the players out if the lineup.

#31556	03/07/2016 12:59:40 pm
newtman Joined: 11/02/2013 Posts: 3343 Inactive	Except fatigue is a random injury like all the rest in the game, so it wouldn't actually be able to avoid fatigue "injuries".

#31558	03/07/2016 1:44:15 pm
jreynoldson913 Joined: 08/18/2015 Posts: 293 Inactive	+1 I would think it would be used more on a prospect who ur trying to build up, u know like split time with another catcher. Updated Monday, March 7 2016 @ 1:47:52 pm PST

#31559	03/07/2016 2:36:03 pm
jonny6 Joined: 10/12/2013 Posts: 48 Inactive	Maybe over the long term something can be implemented where the the catchers influence pitchers in the same way managers influence a team. ie some catchers are better with breaking ball pitchers, others with fastball, maybe even something for prospects, etc. They don't need to be visible attributes necessarily but they could appear in the scouting reports or something. This is a bit of a stretch idea but it's a thought

#31566	03/07/2016 4:03:22 pm
Crazy Li Joined: 01/25/2015 Posts: 879 Inactive	I think if we had an actual fatigue system for position players, we wouldn't need this. We could just set a backup and that backup would play once the starter reaches a certain threshold in his fatigue.

#31576	03/07/2016 9:09:04 pm
admin Joined: 01/27/2010 Posts: 4985 Administrator	It sounds like this is more a mechanism to rest all position players periodically, than a real desire to have personal catchers, no? Steve

#31598	03/08/2016 4:52:05 pm
jreynoldson913 Joined: 08/18/2015 Posts: 293 Inactive	IDK where this is really heading Steve in this forum but I like both personal catchers and periodically resting a player

#31601	03/08/2016 5:15:23 pm
DaveCool Joined: 02/28/2015 Posts: 141 Inactive	It could just be more simple to tweak the lineup between games whenever possible than to take up server space or time if it would take much. The personal catcher is more of an anomaly in MLB outside of the 90's Braves and Lester-Ross which will end with Ross's retirement.