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Part of this is, as stated above, teams playing older non-prospects in the lower minors.
Part of it is the frequency with which you get highly skilled fielders playing 2b, ss, cf, etc.
But the real key is that almost all high school draftees enter the league with extremely low skills and then gain significantly over the next winter. This is of questionable realism, but it would work okay if rookie leagues were made up entirely of guys straight out of the draft. But instead, what happens is that second and third year players routinely beat up on first year players, even though some of those first year players will later develop into productive major leaguers.
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