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Originally Posted by ALB123

I do the same thing with my minor league teams. It is super tedious sometimes, but to me, it is well worth it.

One thing I need to get better at is sharing more innings among positional players who happen to have a really good/potentially great player playing at the same position as two average players in Rookie or Short-Season Class A leagues. Of course, I am most interested in developing the kid with a 3.5+ Star potential rating at 3B over the two other 2.0 & 2.5-Star POT third basemen, but I often neglect the 2.0 & 2.5 Star guys. Two years later when Mr. 3.5+ Star 3B is long gone and already backing up 3B in Double-A those other two 3B are in Class A or Class A+ and they barely make the grade...most likely because I crippled their development early on.

I have that conversation with myself every single season. Then, when I am rotating my players every 7 days or so, I convince myself to keep the 3+ or 3.5+ Star kid in the lineup for one more rotation. "Oh, he's only batting .210... I gotta keep him playing so he doesn't cool down too much." or "I need to give him more innings. He was just dropped from 3.5 Stars to 3.0 Stars!" I come up with some wild rationalizations.




Great job!! In my opinion, you are doing a very wise thing by playing Trout in LF. There are many people in this forum who would say the same. Don't be afraid to play him in LF during the regular season. Especially if you have a decent enough replacement to play CF. If you have an outfielder who can only play one of the OF positions, you are doing your club a big disservice, in my opinion. It's easier to build up a good LF rating than a good CF rating in my experience. I have two excellent outfielders on my squad. They're both natural CF. Bernie Williams and Barry Bonds. Both have ratings of 85 for LF and 70 for CF. I rotate them every now and then.

I was thinking about this yesterday so I’ll ask you and if CBiesbol wants to chime in as well that would be great. When you rotate positions with your players to get them that training have you ever found them unwilling to make that move? Most of my solo games are in Commish mode where I just watch things play out. However, I do have one save where I play out every game. I can’t remember in that save if a player was upset about being moved from say CF to LF or a pitcher from a starter to a reliever. Then I wonder if that should be part of the game if it isn’t. Maybe something connected to a players work ethic and attitude where some players are unwilling to learn a new position or if they are forced to they become clubhouse problems or demand trades or refuse to sign extensions and such.