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Originally Posted by Fighting22
I'm 4 seasons in (play pitch by pitch) and have a hard time with players not developing. Traded some vets for younger studs with potential, and after 2 seasons in the bigs they're not even close to getting better, although it still shows the top ratings. I'm 60% over in the development budget and send these guys to the lab but nothing seems to happen. All the others have guys that are twice as good as mine, but mine never develop.
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Yeah...when the new patch comes out I'm going to see if anything changes on that front but if nothing does I'll experiment to see how high I need to crank up dev speed without it turning unrealistic the other way.
I also think part of the problem is that the 25/26 draft pools feel extremely underpowered. Yeah, some draft pools IRL are weaker than others, but I checked a long-term save recently and after 10 years or so the majority of the first-rounders in '25 retired without even making the big leagues.
The best players of the entire class were some later round pitchers who were blessed by the TCR gods.
If you look at IRL draft classes in the past 20 or so years, even in the weakest ones, most of the first-rounders will at least make the majors, even if they don't end up being any good.