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Originally Posted by goalieump413
This is why it's a little confusing...(quoted from the manual link)
However, major league players and players on a reserve roster develop normally even without playing time.
Therefore, it appears that even if a player on your 40-man isn't playing, he's still developing/progressing. I can then only assume that they wouldn't take any performance hits due to lack of playing time like they would with injury or fatigue recovery.
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Not exactly right. The reserve roster is what you have if you don't use minors, and since it doesn't play games the players develop as if they were riding the pine in the bigs. The 40-man is a separate entity, and in a league using minors anyone on the 40-man but in the minors still needs PT to develop.
Bench guys do not currently accumulate rust, but I would argue that they should at a rate of 1 per game not played after 7, and said rust should go down at the same rate it does in spring training (which rate I forget at the moment).