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Originally Posted by Brad K
Same here. I've never done historical minors. Never even thought about it.
I generally don't bring up players if their first year was limited ML time, But that's mostly because they aren't good enough to push a regular out of a job and they can't play enough positions well to be a good bench player. I'd rather have a 1.5 or 2.0 star veteran who can play 3 positions than a 2.0 or 2.5 rookies who can play 1 position.
As a side note, I recommend using historical rookies not a draft. In a draft a human can cherry pick players likely to be good just on name recognition. There's still an advantage on historical rookies because you can know who not to trade but the advantage is less. AI needs some help. I remain surprised the game doesn't have a help AI setting with various amounts of help.
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At times I do wish we had another option in regards to the database in which players arrived for the draft at their draft ages and not at their MLB debut age. My wish is for this to only involve guys that actually made it to the bigs. The example above of Mauer entering the draft at 18 is a perfect example. I just don't want to see Wilber Packofsocks playing in my replay.