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Garnet
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If an older player (29) has missed AAA and is 10 SI short of his potential is it any use to put him in back AAA for a bit--ie. can he still gain training? He has the "He is probably too old to improve much more".
newtman
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At 29, I'd say no. The oldest I tried was 27, and that didn't work too well.
Rock777
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It does seem to work with 25 year olds, and I think people have had varying success at 26. But as Newtman points out, your returns diminish pretty quick. Probably not going to help with a 29 year old.

If he is completely stalled out ("not much room for improvement" at 28), here is an experiment you could try:

- play him as normal in the majors
- drop him down to AAA for training updates on Friday night
- rinse and repeat

You could try that and see if you can get him to improve at all.
newtman
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@Rock, you mean Thursday night...
Rock777
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LOL. Yeah.
Garnet
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Here is an update. First I cut the pitcher in question... however I had the same problem with a promising SS. He is SS and 2b.

He was 28 and 4 short of his potential (100SI to 104)
He didn't have the "learned all he can" tag and had limited AAA experience. I missed seeing this so I could have done more for him earlier in the year which I keep kicking myself for.

Rock - I took your advice and for training updates 7 through 10 dropped him down on Thursday and brought him back later - one week I left him down there.
He gained 2 SI.
He now has the learned all he can tag..... however I will keep him in AAA for spring to get 30 games at 2b as I would like him to play 2B as needed.
Hoping i can get a bit more fielding out of him as well.


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