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Originally Posted by Dave Stieb II
Yes, the elimination of short season A- ball basically took a rung out of the development ladder.
Now you have fairly polished college players mixing with the rawest of high school draft picks at the domestic complex.
Perhaps they've figured out how to make it work IRL but it creates a bit of a problem for us. If you set too young an age limit for the domestic complex team, then a lot of college draftees are going to be left in 'no man's land' between the complex and full season A ball.
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Is that what teams are doing IRL? Just dumping everyone in Arizona/Florida and seeing who does what?
It does explain why I've seen what I've seen in the California League this year. It looks an awful lot like what short season games used to look like (at least the NYPL games I've seen). Sending better college prospects to what is now Low A after the draft would make a lot of sense, basically using them as they used to use A-SS leagues.