SLB Etiquette - Agree, Disagree or Don't Care?
A few years ago I made another owner furious when, in order to rest my staff, I started a mopup pitcher and left him in the whole game (can't recall the score, but we probably lost by 20-30 runs). The owner said I messed up his team with all the extra batter fatigue (the engine will only assign 6 PA max to a batter for any one game, but no matter, 6 PA is still worse than 4 or 5). Since then I've made it a habit to always warn my opponents when I'm starting a mopup -- but only if I plan to keep the mopup in for the whole game. If I start a mopup who's rested and has a reasonable pitch count, then all bets are off since I figure I have a chance (albeit small) of actually winning. Wouldn't want to trick my opponent into benching his starters and then beating him.