Prospects skipping AAA

diesel230 · 10-07-2017, 06:23 PM

I have run my mlb league for 6 seasons now. I have noticed rarely do any prospects play even a half season at AAA. A quick look of my top 100 league prospects shows only 3 in AAA right now.

Clicking teams AAA rosters "age" column shows way to many players 30 plus. Seems like guys don't like to retire.

Do you guys see prospects get at bats in AAA?

sc_superstar · 10-07-2017, 07:37 PM

Its actually pretty common. Especially for pitchers. Alot of teams use aaa for depth.

diesel230 · 10-08-2017, 07:43 PM

Well then i guess this issue does correlate to excellent-very good players not retiring when they should and clogging up the minor leagues.

Im in the last week of the 2019 season. Going thru the different minor league transactions pages, the player names are ridiculous. Way to many Mark Teixiera and Carlos Beltran types ending their careers in AAA taking the spot of cant miss prospect and lower tier prospects.

NoOne · 10-09-2017, 11:07 AM

in settings, search manual for exact location, you can set it so the minors use 'potential' to set starting lineups.

this will alleviate a good chunk of the problem... sometomes the golden oldy's potential doesn't drop, this would be the times it would not help... also initially when they fall to that mlb/aaa borderline usage, shortly after their pot typically falls to their current ability.

also, some people regularly use a View or filter etc to lop off those types of players (delete, retire, whatever)

i typically see 4-5 30+ per team and i only use the "potential" setting as stated above. i'm sure pockets of elevated #'s can exist in my leagues, though. alot of the 30-sometigns in my case are actually career mil players. my mil system isn't strapped for players at higher levels, either. leads to...

other thing to look into -- producing enough players/year to keep system full? too often i read in forums someone not liking 35-40+ in their lower leagues... you need it! you need 2x rookie/short a as A-ball. you need roughly 1.5x-or-2x players in A-ball to fill 1 AA-ball... then 1aaa:1aa is fine at least with "1" aaa in use... maybe with 2AAA or 3aaa you need 3or4 aa - i've never had more than 1 AAA league per ML. if they are in need, they will continue to sign these types of older players for AAA.

regardless, a player should develop nearly as well at AA as AAA (not saying it's spilt milk, just not catastrophic). i have had prospects skip AAA before for sure and always willing to do so if the ratings warrant it. it's still best to move the guys to AAA that are a bit too good for AA, i believe. i have seen guys develop in Rookie league to a .300/xxx/.500+ slash before... so, i'm not certain of the severity of the drawback. i'd dobule check manual that "stagnation" in teh minors is a real thing and not some group think from teh forums that people like myself may have propogated.

10-07-2017, 06:23 PM	#1
diesel230 All Star Reserve Join Date: May 2004 Location: Long Island NY Posts: 727	Prospects skipping AAA I have run my mlb league for 6 seasons now. I have noticed rarely do any prospects play even a half season at AAA. A quick look of my top 100 league prospects shows only 3 in AAA right now. Clicking teams AAA rosters "age" column shows way to many players 30 plus. Seems like guys don't like to retire. Do you guys see prospects get at bats in AAA?

10-09-2017, 11:07 AM	#4
NoOne Banned Join Date: Apr 2015 Posts: 7,273 Infractions: 0/1 (3)	in settings, search manual for exact location, you can set it so the minors use 'potential' to set starting lineups. this will alleviate a good chunk of the problem... sometomes the golden oldy's potential doesn't drop, this would be the times it would not help... also initially when they fall to that mlb/aaa borderline usage, shortly after their pot typically falls to their current ability. also, some people regularly use a View or filter etc to lop off those types of players (delete, retire, whatever) i typically see 4-5 30+ per team and i only use the "potential" setting as stated above. i'm sure pockets of elevated #'s can exist in my leagues, though. alot of the 30-sometigns in my case are actually career mil players. my mil system isn't strapped for players at higher levels, either. leads to... other thing to look into -- producing enough players/year to keep system full? too often i read in forums someone not liking 35-40+ in their lower leagues... you need it! you need 2x rookie/short a as A-ball. you need roughly 1.5x-or-2x players in A-ball to fill 1 AA-ball... then 1aaa:1aa is fine at least with "1" aaa in use... maybe with 2AAA or 3aaa you need 3or4 aa - i've never had more than 1 AAA league per ML. if they are in need, they will continue to sign these types of older players for AAA. regardless, a player should develop nearly as well at AA as AAA (not saying it's spilt milk, just not catastrophic). i have had prospects skip AAA before for sure and always willing to do so if the ratings warrant it. it's still best to move the guys to AAA that are a bit too good for AA, i believe. i have seen guys develop in Rookie league to a .300/xxx/.500+ slash before... so, i'm not certain of the severity of the drawback. i'd dobule check manual that "stagnation" in teh minors is a real thing and not some group think from teh forums that people like myself may have propogated. Last edited by NoOne; 10-09-2017 at 11:09 AM.

10-07-2017, 07:37 PM	#2
sc_superstar Major Leagues Join Date: Sep 2011 Posts: 407	Its actually pretty common. Especially for pitchers. Alot of teams use aaa for depth.

10-08-2017, 07:43 PM	#3
diesel230 All Star Reserve Join Date: May 2004 Location: Long Island NY Posts: 727	Well then i guess this issue does correlate to excellent-very good players not retiring when they should and clogging up the minor leagues. Im in the last week of the 2019 season. Going thru the different minor league transactions pages, the player names are ridiculous. Way to many Mark Teixiera and Carlos Beltran types ending their careers in AAA taking the spot of cant miss prospect and lower tier prospects.