Greetings... 4 quick questions:

1. If you have AI running minors, does it move pitchers from active/inactive so everyone gets some IP, or do you have to do it?

2. Is there a list of admin tasks needed at various stages, like between Spring and start of regular season, e.g. re-setting when to use defensive replacements?

3. Do players get their feelings hurt - meaning development impacted - if you move them around a lot in the minors?

4. Can you ruin a player's development if you move him up too fast...like he might struggle at AAA if going from Low-A, and growth stunted?

Thanks for all your help!!!!!!! (now up to 5 teams, obsessed!)

1. The AI will move pitchers back and forth if pitchers get too fatigued. There's a setting for that in your Management Console.

2. I don't know of any checklist like that. Maybe some owners have put together their own checklists.

3. After spring training games have started, and through the regular season, players could lose ratings if you demote them. The key metric for this is a player's patience rating. If a player has a very high patience rating, he will tolerate a demotion better than players with a low patience rating.

4. The only way that a rapid promotion rate would hurt a player's development is if he loses a spot in the starting line-up. Players don't develop much if they just sit on the bench. Or if you have worse coaches at the higher level.

Thanks, BJ.

To confirm...is it like this: the AI isn't going to allocate innings equally (roughly) among minor league pitchers...it's only going to rotate someone off of inactive list if a "regular" is tired/hurt.

If so, it seems an owner needs to strategically decide who starts off with the inactive designation....right?

Yes, you are correct in your first interpretation. But as for your second question, don't over-think it. For the 'Manage Pitching Staff?' setting, I set it at 60. This seems to me to be a good middle of the road setting. Don't set it too high. I have seen too many times in the past when the AI put one of my best pitching prospects on inactive when his fatigue was something like 65 or 70 after a day of rest, and then he just sat on inactive for an extended period.

The biggest problem with the AI running a team is that it doesn't care which players you'd prefer to have play. Its only concern is to have a healthy and rested roster.
Say you have a 19 year old genuine prospect whose backup is a 24 year old nobody. The nobody might likely have a higher Overall rating. So whenever it gets a chance, the AI will bench the kid and replace him with the vet, then forget the kid on the bench.

If you're going to use the AI, check your teams say once a week just to see if anything weird happened. Unless you genuinely don't care.