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Originally Posted by PSUColonel
The fact is....way too many players are valuing Indy League contracts over AAA offers. Is this realistic? I am not sure it is. It seems to me a lot of these borderline players would have a pretty good shot at getting to the MLB at some point, and are throwing away this opportunity to get paid 5K for one year to play for an Indy team.
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Are those players being offered AAA deals and choosing the Indy one instead? I have offered players minor league deals when it shows they have interest from Indy teams and 99% of the time they take my offer.
In real life. with the changes to the minors and the addition of the 4 partner Indy leagues (Atlantic, American Association, Frontier and Pioneer), players see these teams as unaffiliated minor leagues and may see that as a better opportunity because they could have more options to get back to affiliated baseball instead of being stuck in AAA for one team and they could end up with less playing time because teams want their prospects to play over them. I will be curious to see if OOTP ends up changing something with how these Partner leagues work. I know this season there were a lot of players "transferred" to affiliated teams, more than in years past.