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And regarding prospect development, using the lab to jumpstart prospect development by filling out potential has a snowball effect. You can say it's just "points they would get through normal development eventually", but A) players basically never reach their full rated potential, any potential you fill out in the lab is potential that can't be lost along the way, and B) speeding up a player's development lets them move up the ranks faster and more smoothly, which boosts their overall development effectiveness and lets them have a longer MLB career.
I'm less confident in the power of the lab to develop prospects than I am in using it for established players because you don't see the same immediate obvious impact, but anecdotally the guys who have been successful in the lab seem to be doing well for me. It's not just about comparing raw numbers in the editor because the numbers impact the prospect's overall development timeline and it has a multiplicative effect.
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