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Originally Posted by Lukas Berger
This was mentioned by a couple of our beta testers as well, and I think they're making sense.
Based on what I'm seeing, I'm kind of thinking any issue now is not so much with development, but with the AI being too willing and even eager to promote players who it does not yet 'have' to protect on the 40-man roster.
Real-life MLB teams are reluctant to burn options or 40-man spots before they actually 'have' to, and a guy becomes rule 5 eligible, unless a guy is just so good he forces his way onto the MLB roster early.
Whereas the AI seems to take that pretty lightly now for players who aren't likely to make enough of an impact to make the early promotion make sense.
If the AI would just leave those guys in AAA or AA a bit longer until it has to use a roster spot on them, I think even with the current development things would be close to perfect. That would get guys up to the higher levels of the minors quicker, which was a real problem in past years, but they wouldn't get to MLB 'too' quick.
So not promising when we will make any adjustments here, it will depend on when we might have a chance to look more deeply (things are super busy right now), but this is on our list of stuff to keep an eye on and work more on when possible.
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I think that is probably the best course of action, and also ties into service time manipulation.
Like you said, essentially players should be placed in a level respective to their current ability straight out of the draft, and progress up as they develop. However, players should not be called up to the minors until necessary, in order to keep them away from free agency and the Rule 5 Draft as long as possible and keep them with options.
A real life example is Aaron Ashby and Clayton Andrews with Milwaukee. Both are probably good enough for a spot in Milwaukee's bullpen (Ashby had a tremendous spring), but they are 23 and 24 years old and not even on the 40-man yet, because they both have only 2 years as a pro and not rule 5 eligible (and wouldnt provide that much of a boost to the pro club).
Solidify the coding for the AI logic in that department and I think we're golden.