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[mattynokes]

Here's my thoughts on the pod talk on secondary positions:

I don't agree with current players not being eligible for second positions and I don't agree with it being solely for the draft classes going forward. I think it should be open to anyone. Like with my pitching idea, I think it should be a Winterball type thing where it costs money. I know Andy said something to me about not wanting to mess with adding 1B to a player's profile, but I think that should strongly be on the table as well. 1B isn't as noticeably terrible as when you put a solely CF in LF and he has an .821 fielding percentage, but a .958% is still terrible for 1B. Much less, it's realistic for players to also play or transition to 1B. And hey, I found something that might make this whole game simple...

Adding Second Positions
After Sim #12 teams a thread will go up for adding secondary positions. The deadline will be the playoff sim and the extra positions will be added prior to the re-signings being entered.

1. Teams may add secondary positions added to 2 players.

2. Teams may add 2 extra positions per player. Positions must make sense or they will be denied. Left-handed throwing players will not be allowed to play the infield other than 1B. Adding reason will help your cases.
Make a 3B have 1B and RF (Lonnie Chisenhall)
Make a 2B have 3B and 1B (Kelly Johnson)

3. Cost is $2.5M per player.

4. How the predicteds will be done is TBD.

5. Players can have even more positions added in future seasons.

Making Pitchers True Relievers
After Sim #12 teams a thread will go up. The deadline will be the playoff sim and the Endurance adjustment will be made prior to the re-signings being entered.

1. Teams may transition 2 pitchers to true relievers.

2. The pitcher must have shown to have made at attempt to convert to a reliever.
Added to MLB Bullpen or changed to reliever usage in the Minors[i]

3. Cost is $2.5M per player.

4. Pitchers will have their Predicted Games Pitched doubled.
[i]This will relatively have their Endurance cut in half.

5. Pitchers can be converted to a reliever additional times in the future.

['PR']

I would vote for a recap on the 2067 season or at least the playoff race :)

[AndyP]

So I think I'll work on this over the next offseason. I'll probably start immediately after the playoff sim and hope to have it complete by ST. I'll use the following guidelines:

1) This will only be hitters, there is too much involved with pitching at this time

2) There will be no charge or program for this, it's a one time, do it all approach, and then each draft class will be similarly taken care of.

3) All LFs will be able to play RF and vice versa with similar vitals

4) All SSs will have 2B vitals with a -5 knock on all vitals

5) All primarily CFs will have LF and RF vitals with -5 knock

6) Any players that have a position on their player card that is 70-75 will have a -10 knock on that position from main vitals, 75-82 will be a -5 knock, and 83+ are the same. All of this will be some degree of subjective sanity checking on my part and not all vitals will be exact. I'm trying not to change overalls in any significant way. (this will over-ride points 4 and 5. So if a CF has 83+ ratings in the outfield, there will be no knock. Same with the shortstops. This rule will be primary, the other three will only come in if the player card doesn't match good sense)

During that week Sunday Jan. 8th - Jan. 18th I'd be more than open for some help with this if anyone is available. It'll also depend a bit on how quickly the work goes for me, but if you think you can help let me know!

[mattynokes]

4) Shouldn't a primary SS also have 3B added as well? Wasn't the general thought to have utility infielders and outfielders? It's not a tough transition for a SS to play 3B.

6) I'm not sure this is needed. To what end does it stop? Most all good defensive catchers have 1B in the 70s. As well as most great fielders will have 1B in that skill range too. In the end I think LF/RF, CF/LF/RF, SS/2B/3B gives us plenty of flexibility without needing to make super utility players that this could mean.

Also, will this mean supposed utility players that already have predicteds will be fixed? Josh Munslow is an example. Mogul suggests he has predicteds at 3B, but his performance has been very poor at 3B and judging from his vitals/performance at 2B and SS, he should be much better at 3B than he is.

[AndyP]

Munslow does have predicteds at 3B. He's played 100 innings there, I think your issue is one of small sample size.

Shortstops will have 3B added if their player card indicates it.

Player cards vary widely, adjusting it based on that will allow people to know what to expect when they look at it. That's part of the point. So where it ends is with the player's card.

[Oldwiseman]

Andy

I think doing the overall file in the offseason is a great idea. Esp how you've described it thus far and changing draft from here on out. However, I do like the idea of having the option of taking a spec, with the same overall rule set we have for winter ball, to add a position for them. So for example, you have your typical high defensive SS spec that's gonna be a career bench guy. Instead of trying for the 1-3 peak jump with winterball you can add a position he can play. Will give you the chance to have a fielder like Josh Harrison of the Pirates who literally has a glove for almost every position. Just about every major league has a player like that on the bench that can play almost every IF position. Can't play every position great but can hold his own there. With obiviously SS being the highest penalized if not they're primary position. Just a thought.
OWM

[AndyP]

My hope OWM is that there will be guys like that available in FA and in the draft, so you can target them if you wish to. Once the file is done and we play it out a bit and this is still a factor people would like to add to WB, I'd be open to that though.

[AndyP]

Update: I'm beginning work on this. It will change some overalls for your players and some of their vitals depending on the player. For the vast majority it will have little or no effect.

The adjustments above are a guideline, don't expect exactly +5 or -5 or whatever, it will depend on the player and the time it takes to adjust as closely as possible.

I'm hoping to get a couple done every night over the next few days.