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Originally Posted by imnotsammysosa
It's the best time to train guys at new positions. I love spring training.
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This is the major benefit I’ve always used it for as well for many OOTP versions. I always try to keep my everyday players above 90% fatigue so I like to have a starting 8, DH, and then a jack of all trades who is a good hitter and reasonable IF and OF that plays close to every day but at a different position every day (and is the immediate replacement for an injured player). If you can identify someone like this in the minors and then use them in that role through their arb years, helps reduce fatigue in your important players and keeps an extra good player happy more often than not. Usually you can sign them cheaper once they are out of arb years (or to an early extension) as well, and you actually know if they are decent or not.
So once I identify that guy, even if he’s a couple of years away from mlb, he might play a lot of SS one year, 2B the next, etc.