Do i play my starters during spring training.

General consensus is to give position players ~10 ab and pitchers 3 appearances.

This is especially important for aging vets (to help slow the decline) and young guys (who still may be developing slightly).

Best thing to do is to adjust your Edit Manager Settings under the manager tab. What I do -- and I'm sure others do different things -- is adjust the each of the Use Player Rest sections to use it if winning or losing by 1 run in the 6th inning. This usually calls for wholesale changes in the sixth inning. Also, adjust your starting pitchers pitch counts. I like to use 50-60 pitches for starters (other owners have different philosophies). I also use six starters, so that means three times through the rotation for all six. Usually my last guy is a top prospect. Depends on your roster situation. These settings should give all the key guys enough ABs and appearances to keep there progress going or fend off a decline -- at least for the moment.

I have always done 5-6 games for ml position players and approx.: 10 innings for ml pitchers. I do it at the beginning. I try to only play players that have a legit shot to play at the ml level if I have enough after that.

play your best prospects to max out their development...you get big jumps post ST.

Play your ML players first, and then rest them. If they get injured, it happens earlier.

I play my everyday guys for the first couple games then start mixing in prospects.

Pitchers I do tandems 1 thru 4 with my 5 projected starters at the ML level and 3 prospects...they ususally get 2-3 innings per appearance that way. The other guys I pitch with low pitch counts and quick hooks in the pen and I genreally use 5-8 pitchers that way per game. Once a guy appears a couple of times, rest him in favor of another guy, and so on.

Player rest settings to get all of your players in the game. Use player rest, defensive replacement settings. Then, once your mlb players have 3-6 game appearances, rest them the rest of spring training and only play your prosects. An exception to this is if you have young mlb talent that is still developing. Then keep those guys in there each game, but be sure they are only in there half the game (player rest).