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Originally Posted by old fat bald guy
I don't put as much time and effort into managing the minor-league system as some of you.
Here's my system: Promotions and demotions not involving the major-league club are delegated to the assistant GM. Minor-league managers are empowered to sign and release players, although I'll grab a guy off the free-agent list on a minor-league deal if he catches my scout's eye and looks good to me. This stuff can be done on the manager settings page.
After every season, everybody with half-star potential and everybody on a major-league contract with one-star potential gets released. This annually reduces the number of pitchers in my system to some ridiculously low number, but the minor-league managers take care of that and sometimes the guys they sign are not awful. A few of them have been September call-up/trade throw-in level guys. One is now a mediocre mainstay in the bullpen of the bad major-league team to which I traded him.
My rookie league roster is often bizarre. I don't sweat it. If there are 10 catchers and most of them aren't developing because they aren't playing, well, my rookie-league manager thinks they aren't good enough to win playing time in rookie league, so I don't think I'm losing much.
Placing some trust in the judgment of staff members makes the game feel more realistic and immersive to me.
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A suggestion: you don't have to micro manage your minors to maximize your prospects. shortlist and lock to current league level only the "best" prospects that you care about. you will be better at promotions and demotions than the AI. maximize development on the highly rated ones you care about. the AI can handle the other 99% of your minors.
also,
even though you delegate alot of stuff, as i do, you should do the cutting 1/year. overall / potential don't always reflect the individual ratings accurately - especially if you use AI Eval with alot of stats invovled. so, the AI is going to make alot more mistakes. you'll do a better job of culling the herd and you will increase probability of surprises by keeping better players (less positive random talent changes required).
do it once a year in the offseason or once a year after amateur draft... i try to do all maintenace at the same time i place newly acquired kids. once setup for this method, it's very little work at any one time. initial setup will take longer.
sort by position and cut anyhting with contact/control potential ratings that can't get to AAA. let the MiL managers fill with FA or whaetver if you are low on players after that... you don't have to worry about that. it will fix itself.
i delegate signings, promos/demos, personnel signings, just about everything that has to do with the minors.... i selectively control various parts for a few specific players and a few situations.
work smart, not hard. anyone can work hard, it's not an advantage... being smarter about what you are doing than the next guy is a real advantage.