Archive of SportingNews.com's old SOM Baseball forum

http://fantasygames.sportingnews.com/baseball/stratomatic/2007/league/boxscore.html?group_id=681&g_id=537

This boxscore shows a player already in the game at a fielding position switching positions to DH in the middle of the game, while the DH was replaced with a position player.

Now in real baseball, if the player in the batting position of the DH becomes a fielder, the DH is lost and the pitcher must be put into the batting order. Right?

Shame, shame, SOM.

Looks like a valid code bug.

Bernie, you should check this one out.

In effect, I believe you are correct. If a designated hitter substitutes for a position player, then the DH is forfeited for the remainder of the game. However, in this case, that didn't happen. In this case, a position player was actually moved to DH. While there doesn't appear to be a rule that explicitly prohibits this, it is in effect prohibited by this clause:

[quote:f1a1b09892]A Designated Hitter is “locked” into the batting order. No multiple substitutions may be made that will alter the batting rotation of the Designated Hitter.[/quote:f1a1b09892]

Since the DH should have been "locked" into the leadoff position, it would be impossible to substitute someone who was already in the lineup at a different position.

Good catch! Probably a programming challenge to prevent this in a DH league, however.

Interesting. This definitely would be something that was caused by my defensive replacement work, and I apologize. However, it seems this is an extremely rare case, and that's what caused the problem - 2 players getting injured in the same inning, one of them being the DH. I otherwise made very sure that in 99+% of cases, the DH cannot be subbed into like that.

Thank you for reporting this; I'll look into closing up this loophole.

Thanks Bernie...in this case it worked in my favor, but figured it should be posted. I appreciate your proactiveness in resolving these little quirks... -Cal