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steve balboni = babe ruth - 5/16/2008 3:13:16 AM

junglejack

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What is up with Steve Balboni in this game?
I started a league in the year 1979, I am currently completing 1984.
Steve "Bye-Bye" Balboni - the big swinging, big strike out victim of the eighties, is challenging for MVP of the league thusfar.
Not only does he have a 76 rating for contact - but he has a 72 speed rating!
He's hitting .326 with 28 homers and 26 sb.
He might go 30/30 for cryin' out loud!
As an avid Royals fan, I remember Balboni fondly, but I also remember that he was a much flawed player - not a five tool MVP.

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RE: steve balboni = babe ruth - 5/19/2008 11:33:05 PM

dzanr

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Players don't always develop overtime exactly as they did in real life.� From my observation, players are usually rated pretty close to reality in the initial season they appear.� But after that, their actual�career for the given future years�is used only as a guide.� Shaun did�once confirm in response to one of my posts�that a player's reallife�career is most ofter the controlling factor for the evolution of a player's ratings as he ages.��

If you were to start all over again with 1979 it would be more likely that by 1984 Balboni's ratings would be a lot closer to what his actual skill levels were in '84.� But as it is now in the reality you've currently created, perhaps you should look at is as a what-if the soul of�Mickey Mantle had been passed on to Steve Balboni.�