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Originally Posted by uruguru
Yeah, I think with a high TCR it's a good idea to do both of those things. Thanks for clarifying!
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Yeah, the flip side of this is that I think you wind up with a lot more guys between, say, 23 and 35 who are all major-league / AAAA quality and I don't think the AI does such a great job of cutting guys for purely age-related reasons. IRL if you have two guys with similar skillsets and one is 33 and one is 27, even, you stick with the 27 year old because they're more likely to stay at that level for the next, say, 5 years. In the minors it's waaaaay more brutal than that - like 24 year olds who are better than 19 year olds get cut loose from A or even AA all the time - but again, the AI is way too "nice" to these guys.
Actually, come to think of it, one thing I do to mitigate that is I put age limits on all of my minor leagues below AAA. You do still end up with 30+ year olds in AAA (which, I play out all my league's games from the 7th on and also handle major transactions but I do allow the AI to sign/promote/demote/cut minor leaguers so I do see this effect) but I don't know, to a great extent this is as it should be. I also have, currently, two international leagues in Mexico and redactedland to pull some of those AAAA types off the top. I've definitely seen those leagues sign guys in their mid to late 30s who'd been cut from their MLB team so that seems to be working as it ought to be.