Broken Bat - Help: Difference between Rookie,Minor Leaguer

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#4900	10/10/2013 1:54:50 pm
DameFan10 Joined: 10/05/2013 Posts: 8 Inactive	What is the difference between a Rookie and minor leaguer?Also why is 3 years the max to be with a club?

#4902	10/10/2013 4:15:43 pm
admin Joined: 01/27/2010 Posts: 4985 Administrator	A minor leaguer is somebody still in the minor leagues. A rookie is somebody in his first year in the big leagues. >Also why is 3 years the max to be with a club? That’s when we added that feature and started counting. It will eventually correct itself over time, but it would have been nearly impossible to back compute. Plus, there is a effect on salaries, so we didn’t want that to kick in all at once making a dramatic swing in some players’ salaries. Steve

#4903	10/10/2013 4:39:25 pm
DameFan10 Joined: 10/05/2013 Posts: 8 Inactive	Thanks.

#4904	10/10/2013 6:56:44 pm
tc_ferdzz Joined: 11/13/2011 Posts: 135 Inactive	but in the roster re-assignment...rookie is a step lower than A

#4905	10/10/2013 7:03:57 pm
Celtics Joined: 04/19/2013 Posts: 12 Inactive	If a minor league player is called up to play in the majors,he is a rookie and if he does not get called up to the majors until his promotion,he is a minor league player.

#4906	10/10/2013 9:03:51 pm
admin Joined: 01/27/2010 Posts: 4985 Administrator	Perhaps his is confusing, but in the league structure there is Rookie, A, AA, AAA and then the Majors [from bottom to top]. However a "rookie" in terms of level of experience on the player card is in his first year with the big club. Hmmm...that is a bit confusing, but how real baseball does it (Minor League Structure). Maybe we need to make that more clear. Steve Updated Thursday, October 10 2013 @ 9:05:21 pm PDT Updated Thursday, October 10 2013 @ 9:05:46 pm PDT

#8174	06/11/2014 9:17:12 am
Haselrig Joined: 04/13/2014 Posts: 2790 Novi Doubledays III.4	It's not authentic to the current MLB minor league structure, but I understand there was a different structure pre-1963 that might help clear up any confusion regarding "Rookie" league vs. 1st year in the majors "Rookie" players. Perhaps a change from "Rookie" to "B" or "D" would help and be just this side of authentic? Per Wikipedia: "Until 1963, there were also Class B, C, and D leagues (and, for half a season, one E league). The Class D of that day would be equivalent to the Rookie level today. The other class designations disappeared because leagues of that level could not sustain operation during a large downturn in the financial fortunes of minor league baseball in the 1950s and 1960s caused by the rise of television broadcasts of major league sports across broad regions of the country. The impact of the Korean War in 1950 caused a player shortage in most cities in class D and C. The Class E level existed briefly in 1943 in the form of the Twin Ports League. It folded July 13 after six weeks of operation."

#8185	06/11/2014 3:32:38 pm
curtisp5286 Joined: 08/25/2012 Posts: 95 Inactive	The Broken Bat minor league set up is basically identical to the current MLB minor league structure. There is Rookie League, Low A, A, High A, AA, AAA and then MLB. I see how it could be a little bit confusing to someone new to MLB because very young prospects are place in the Rookie League but a player in their first year of MLB is also called a rookie. Curtis P