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Originally Posted by greenOak
Be luckier.
Seriously, dumb luck has by far the biggest impact on developing prospects.
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This is the main thing. Unless you're in commissioner mode you won't have any idea whether your coaches are any good or not, so that part is sheer luck.
You can help your odds a bit with your promotions but most of your prospects still aren't going to amount to anything.
Anyway, with promotions I generally promote batters who have 2 WAR for the season at the level they're playing at, and pitchers who have an above average ERA for their league along with roughly 1.5 strikeouts per walks. How good their K/W needs to be and their ERA depends on how many innings they have.
I'll shade that a bit depending on how they're being used. I raise the criteria if a batter is putting up good superficial numbers but hitting 8th, or a pitcher with good numbers is being used as a middle reliever or 5th starter. That's telling me that their manager doesn't think they're very good.
Also players know how good they are. If a guy thinks he should be in the majors, he is usually right. At the very least I'll promote them to AAA as soon as I see that. Likewise I'm a bit leery of a player in AAA with good stats who isn't pushing to get promoted. I'll leave them in AAA a bit longer to make sure those stats are legit before I move them up.
I let my assistant do the draft because drafting bores the hell out of me.