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RonCo · 01-31-2009, 06:05 PM

There exist several reasons you wouldn't play a team of 17 year olds at AAA.

- Your 17 year-old will probably develop just as well in short season or rookie ball.
- You have other players under contract who will better benefit from the competition level at AAA
- In that vein, you have limited roster slots at all levels of your organization, and you want to optimize growth and learning.
- You also want to be able to judge that player's true ability.
- While you may not break that 17 year-old's skillset by playing him at AAA, it would also be no fun for the kid, and he may well lose his passion and therefore not develop at the rate long-term you would like him to. Hence you could say his OOTP ratings could grow more slowly if he had _LONG TERM_ poor performance over his level ... actually I think the opposite is more lilely true, though...a 24 year-old at single-A will likely regress because his skills are nt being stretched or challenged.

If you brought that same 17 year-old to AAA for two weeks on a short-term assignment and told him you dind't care if he stank or not, he would probably learn a lot from it. But business-wise, for every 17 yo you do that with, you need to use a roster spot that could go to a 22-yo prospect or a big-club back-up.

01-31-2009, 06:05 PM	#26 (permalink)
RonCo Hall Of Famer Join Date: Aug 2003 Posts: 6,566 Thanks: 21 Thanked 149x in 67 posts	There exist several reasons you wouldn't play a team of 17 year olds at AAA. - Your 17 year-old will probably develop just as well in short season or rookie ball. - You have other players under contract who will better benefit from the competition level at AAA - In that vein, you have limited roster slots at all levels of your organization, and you want to optimize growth and learning. - You also want to be able to judge that player's true ability. - While you may not break that 17 year-old's skillset by playing him at AAA, it would also be no fun for the kid, and he may well lose his passion and therefore not develop at the rate long-term you would like him to. Hence you could say his OOTP ratings could grow more slowly if he had _LONG TERM_ poor performance over his level ... actually I think the opposite is more lilely true, though...a 24 year-old at single-A will likely regress because his skills are nt being stretched or challenged. If you brought that same 17 year-old to AAA for two weeks on a short-term assignment and told him you dind't care if he stank or not, he would probably learn a lot from it. But business-wise, for every 17 yo you do that with, you need to use a roster spot that could go to a 22-yo prospect or a big-club back-up. Last edited by RonCo; 01-31-2009 at 06:09 PM.