[Ghost]

After my last post I thought I would take a look at my 16 team league to see if I was mistaken. Granted the league has only finnished 7 seasons, but here is what I found.

Here is the number of players in AAA that have a salary by team:

1,2,2,2,2,2,4,4,4,5,5,5,5,6,7,9

this averages almost exactly 4 players per team, if you throw out the one extreme (9) the average is slightly over 3 per team.

I noticed 2 things, 1)overall most of the players that have a salary and in AAA, have low salaries, 2) most are over 30 with a good number over 35, looks like they were signed while their skills were good and maybe lost their place in the majors to younger players after their skills declined (this has happened to me, was forced to sign an aging player to a 4 year contract, and then had no use for them after 2 years.

My own team had only 2 players in AAA that had salaries. One was a pitcher with a salary of about 2 mil., and that brings up a point. Pitching is crucial and it seems every season I end up singing 1-2 FA pitchers, and therefor end up with 2-4 pitchers in AAA that have salaries. Due to injuries or poor performance, all these pitchers end up in the majors at some time during the season, so if computer controlled teams have alot of salaried pitchers in AAA it isnt out of line.

One other point, someone made a comment about younger players being in the majors while salaried players are in AAA. The one team that had 9 salaried players in AAA had about 12 players on their major league roster with salaries of $100,000, looks like they decided to rebuild had didnt want to take the $ penalty for dropping the 5 salried players in AAA that are over 34 years old.