Why won't Dickey play catcher?

B. Dickey DH 2 1 0 0 .373
D. Snider CF 3 0 2 0 .383
W. Wright RF 2 0 1 1 .224
J. Butler C

Mauer is my starting catcher.
He is hurt.
Why wont Hal use my listed backup catcher and my only other catcher at catcher?
Instead he keeps Dickey at DH and uses a backup infielder at catcher.
Does this always happen?
Sounds like a glitch in the system.

Hal won't switch a dh in the game to an other position.if you were to do this,the pitcher in the game would have to hit, because you killed the DH

Danielz is right. HAL has the same reluctance to lose the DH for remainder of game a real life manager does.
A risk you take when you count on your backup catcher as your DH. A necessary evil in real life if you have a great hitting catcher you want to get some rest from catching. But strato cards do not get tired and need rest. If we use a catcher as DH it is purely because we designed our team in manner that made this risk necessary.

I understand that in the game the catcher gets hurt why the change isn't made. But the example that I am giving is the next game. Mauer was hurt in game 15. Butler started at catcher games 16 and 17. Dickey remained at DH. Makes no sense. It has to be a programming glitch.

in game you are screwed, but in the other games it is a glitch. let them know, and request a credit. because we are the beta testers for the new web site and if it affects more than one game we should get a free credit. because we paid to be beta testers for this game.

-steven

I agree for subsequent games Dickey would be the logical choice. Suspect the logic gives priority to Dickey at DH because that is his primary starting lineup on your designations. So HAL slots him at DH and when looking for a replacement for Mauer does not consider Dickey as an option because he is already in lineup. Then he chooses from whatever is left on bench after he has slotted all the starters in their respective places.

Good luck on talking Strat out of a credit on this one.

The exact same thing happened to me recently in a 2011 league. I have Buster Posey as my everyday catcher and Victor Martinez as my starting DH and backup catcher.

Posey routinely went down with injuries (with 6 games left in the regular season, he's played in just 108 games), so I was ready for V-Mart to come in the following game and serve as the catcher while Posey licked his wounds. Unfortunately, Martinez only started occasionally at catcher. I also had appearances by Brett Lawrie (3B), Jonathan Herrera (2B/SS,3B), and Joe Mather (1B/3B/LF/CF/RF). I e-mailed SOM and this was our exchange:

SOM - "To avoid this problem you need to move Martinez out of the DH role and he will come in as the catcher when Posey is injured. The depth chart feature in the lineups screen tries not to move a DH out of that role, even if all other eligibles at another position are unavailable."

Me - "This was not a problem when SOM was working under TSN. Why is it a problem now? There has to be some code that can be fixed to make that part of the game work better. I don't really want to have to swap Martinez out of the DH role every time Posey gets hurt, especially if it's less than 3 games."

SOM - "This actually should have worked the same way at TSN, where the computer does not move the starting DH into another position. However this is a part of the game engine that we hope to improve in the future."

Not sure what that does for you, but they should at least be aware of it now. FYI - It seems like the last few times Posey was injured, Martinez did exclusively sub in for him the following game(s), though there's been no official notice that this bug has been fixed.

Do you have a back-up listed for Dickey at DH? I found that worked when I had a similar situation. If you give Hal some guidance it can work out -- not all the time, but at least a good deal of the time.

Bill

If Mauer is hurt for 15 then take him out and put Dickey into that position and a different player in DH. That should end the problem. If it doesn't then it is a glitch.

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