Platoons and situational pinch hitting

Platoon in the outfield with 9L and 9R hitters. Hal is not pinch hitting when a reliever comes in who throws with the other arm. I'm using Avoid on the hitter prefs page and have extra depth in the outfield so I should be able to pinch hit something like four times to get the best matchups. But, Hal's leaving in the 9L to face righty relievers with an 8R outfielder on the bench. By the way, both are 4s in the field. Finally, I do have defensive replacements set, but that shouldn't affect a pitch hitting option in the middle innings of a close game when neither platooner is the defensive replacement. Who's done a platoon correctly?

HAL often will not pinch hit for your #3-6 hitters. Realistically, you can expect the LH bat in a platoon to face 10-15% lefties here. A big part of the version of HAL that we are using was "realism", trying to make the stats come out right.