Jackie Robinson - 1949 - Why injury potential?

Jackie Robinson - 1949 - Why injury potential?

Postby GARRETTGOODRICH » Tue May 31, 2011 4:34 pm

We all know of the cards out there whereby the player cannot get injured (i.e., Injury = 0) because the player played all the games for his MLB team that season.

So why does Jackie Robinson's 1949 card in ATG6 have "lo max + injury" at the very top of the 1st column? According to baseball-reference.com, Robinson played in all 156 Dodger games that year (his MVP year) and according to the lineups was the cleanup hitter in all 156 games.

Why shouldn't he be afforded the non-injury card like other players who played every game in a season?

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Postby andycummings65 » Tue May 31, 2011 6:00 pm

Got one better than that, one I brought up on here before.

Mike Tresh caught all 150 games that the White Sox played in our ATG6 season of 1945. (The White Sox finished 71-79, and had one tie with Cleveland on August 22) Tresh [b:26a7bfbab2]caught them ALL[/b:26a7bfbab2], yet he has a '2' INJURY RATING......

poor Mike probably has never been used, but might he get a look at least in low caps if he was BULLETPROOF??
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Postby The Last Druid » Tue May 31, 2011 11:57 pm

There are so many of these- dozens. Sometimes you have guys who play every game, including extra games, and still get injured. It's crap and either Richman or Bernie should fix it.
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Postby george barnard » Wed Jun 01, 2011 12:40 am

[quote:c84e5dda12]Got one better than that, one I brought up on here before.

Mike Tresh caught all 150 games that the White Sox played in our ATG6 season of 1945. (The White Sox finished 71-79, and had one tie with Cleveland on August 22) Tresh caught them ALL, yet he has a '2' INJURY RATING......

poor Mike probably has never been used, but might he get a look at least in low caps if he was BULLETPROOF?? [/quote:c84e5dda12]

I agree, but Tresh did not CATCH every game. He was used as a pinch-hitter late in the season in several games.

Which raises an interesting theoretical point (angels dancing on the heads of pins category). Imagine pinch-hitter deluxes like Mannie Mota and Rusty Staub pinch-hitting in 162 games. 162 PAs. How do you rate them injury-wise?
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