Minor League Rosters

[pfholden]

Hey everyone,
I like to have the computer control my promotions/demotions and lineups for my minor league teams except for my top 20 prospects or so, but I'm running into an issue. The computer will have a roster with 15-20 pitchers and only 7 or so position players, and sometimes 5 of them all play the same position. The result of this is my pitchers get hammered (BABIP above .400 for everyone on the staff) and it seems to be destroying the development of some of my young pitchers. Any suggestions on how to keep this from happening without taking control of the entire minor league system? Thanks!

[Déjà Bru]

Originally Posted by pfholden

Hey everyone,
I like to have the computer control my promotions/demotions and lineups for my minor league teams except for my top 20 prospects or so, but I'm running into an issue. The computer will have a roster with 15-20 pitchers and only 7 or so position players, and sometimes 5 of them all play the same position. The result of this is my pitchers get hammered (BABIP above .400 for everyone on the staff) and it seems to be destroying the development of some of my young pitchers. Any suggestions on how to keep this from happening without taking control of the entire minor league system? Thanks!

Not sure what you mean. I'm reading this closely and I don't get the connection between having too many pitchers on the roster, only a few position players (I assume you have the ghost players option on), and somehow the latter situation is affecting the former one in terms of your pitcher development.

For now, I offer two suggestions:

1. Turn off ghost players and force your Minor League Managers (or yourself, if you have Minor League Signings/Releases set to you in Manager Options) to fill out the rosters properly with players at every position.
2. Force players to play at other positions (again, I don't know why you mention "sometimes 5 of them all play the same position" as part of your problem) by using the options shown below:

[pfholden]

Thanks for the response.
1) I'm not on my laptop right now, so I'm not sure if ghost players are turned on or off. It's set to whatever the default setting is (my quick reading makes me think they are turned off?)
2) To clarify what I mean about how my roster is filled out: For example, I'll have a roster with 19 P's, 5 1B, and 1 C. I then have pitching prospects who have BABIP over .400. Am I wrong to think the fact that I have only 6 position players, 5 of which are horrible at any position but 1B, is the reason for this?

[Spritze]

What he said - no ghosties.
The other choice fills your minor leagues with fictional players that you can keep from appearing in the majors. Then your minor league rosters will make sense. Like you want.