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You can still utilize your players. It makes you use strategy as well to compare matchups, hot and cold streaks, spot in the lineup, etc. to fill out your lineup as well. For example, teams don't play two catchers. They play one. That makes 'quantity' more important than 'quality'. Are Omar Narvaez and Mitch Garver more valuable than Posey and Curt Casali? No. But in this current format they would be. Narvaez and Garver would be cheaper as well. I feel we should have to set a lineup no different than a manager does. Additionally, rebuilding teams in the past format would go winless. This at least allows them to be more competitive on a week to week basis even within a rebuild. We all will have holes when it is changed. We have four months to trade and free agency to fill those holes so I believe that every team could fill out a MLB roster at that point. The current format does not allow some teams to do that. Don't believe me? Take a look at the Mariners. With a standard lineup, they could win a few. In this format, they won't win anything. This allows for some parity.
there's a big difference between easy button and this. look at the league historical records. Also, it's easier just setting your lineup for the season vs daily lineups. I personally like realism as well so a 9 man batting order seems more realistic.