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Originally Posted by frangipard
I did this and was kind of disappointed with it being too easy. I took over the Kochi Fighting Dogs -- the worst team in the lowest-prestige league. My second season, I won the championship (it's a four team league!), and then jumped to a low-level US Indy league team. After the second season there I won another championship. And after that offseason the Yankees and the Red Sox were both offering me their GM jobs.
The differences are pretty obvious; no farm system, no draft, all one-year contracts. Key IME is just getting a lot of players and figuring out which ones will work. Don't break the bank for any one player; if he wants $50 a year, better to get five guys making $10k and figure out who is good. It's also absurdly easy to upgrade via trade.
One thing that is frustrating/cool is the big leagues taking your best players. I found this really great-looking 18 year old lefty reliever from Australia, and signed him for $5,000. He pitched one-third of inning for me, and I guess the scouts were watching, since the Cleveland Indians bought his rights for $250,000. He made AAA by the time he was 21. Annoying in a way, but very realistic thing to happen.
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I was kind of worried about it being too easy. I remember doing this a few seasons ago as a manager and I was able to get to the bigs in just a few seasons. I feel like it might even be easier when you're doing it as a GM since there are less positions ( can't GM a minor league team).