[Neags23]

Originally Posted by BIG17EASY

You can't compare your situation to real life for a couple reasons. First being that your set up is different. You have only three levels of minor leagues, which means less roster spots and less likelihood of teams signing veteran minor leaguers or guys who have some MLB experience, but not a lot, who would fill in at the MLB level in a pinch. As a result, Stump was the best option at shortstop and got fast-tracked. In a minor league system with more teams, a prospect of his type is less likely to be "rushed" to the big leagues, even when injuries to guys ahead of him occur.

Second, with a smaller amount of minor leagues, you probably have a much smaller amount of free agents, particularly free agents of the quality that they would be capable of filling in at the big league level when an injury occurs.

You're right that this situation doesn't make realistic sense, but you're not dealing with a realistic game environment. And as good as OOTP is, it doesn't mirror everything 100 percent realistically. Combine those two things and it's easy to see how this scenario would happen.

Sure, I agree that my setup doesn't mirror reality. But I don't think it's really so different that all bets are off and really crazy stuff should be happening. Organizations have 90 spots for minor leaguers and only 25 for major leaguers. And guys who are just drafted days ago and don't perform well, even for very short stints, should occupy one of the 90, not one of the 25.

And my universe is quite large, as I have 16 concurrent major leagues with varying levels of minors for each league. So there are currently almost 1,000 FAs. Which actually might be a little too low, considering how many active players there are.