Say you had 4 pitchers all ready with 30 BFA available and 2,3,5,6 games rested.

The robot (maybe randomly?) picks the guy with 3 games then the guy with 2 games. Now the other 2 have 7 and 8 games rested and are rusty.

THE ROBOT WON'T USE THE RUSTY PITCHER. He'll even start a reliever instead of that rusty starting pitcher. I had a series last year where my opponents INN pitcher Neugebauer went rusty and the robot used up 2 relievers and overused a starter rather than pitch rusty INN Neugebauer.

I think this type of thing happens often late in the year with unmanaged teams.

The manual "sort of" addresses this:

"Note: If a pitcher is NOT READY (overused, tired, very overused, worn-out) and named as the starting pitcher, the GAME ROBOT WILL NOT use him. "

But it doesn't mention "rusty" as one of the "not ready" states.

ONE MORE TOPIC UNDOCUMENTED (or poorly documented)IN THE MANUAL.