I think you got a lot of good replies here. But what is your expectation? In general, in the real world, its very hard, and nearly impossible to get a super star every year. You would be lucky to get one every 5-10 years. This is why they are super stars. I can usually get 1 above average player every year and usually about 2 average guys who can fill a role for a while. If you are expecting to create an all star team with your minors, then you are aiming much too high. Its unlikely to happen unless you abuse some game mechanics.
My strategy is rather simple and similar to a few others.
I use stats for promotion and very rarely do I promote within a season. I generally check stats every mid season and I might promote a guy if they are an extreme standout. I did change all my minor league schedules so that I dont have to go back and forth often. I set all my leagues to have the all star game about the same time. This is when I go and check.
Although I use scouting, I set them to very low so I dont put much weight into the rating except during the draft. Its been my experience (since I started playing this game several years ago) that HS and Col stats are totally worthless. I have never seen a huge correlation between them and future performance. Its just as likely to have some guy with high ratings become a star as it is to have a high school standout become a star. So I stopped trying. But stats definitely matter once they are in the minors and I have noticed that standouts definitely can and do excel if you promote them so there is a definite correlation there.
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