@Vitamin_C... Which is why I had my original response to this thread.

I have had my learning curve and ups and downs with Coach Hiring. I took it real seriously at one time. I eventually got to where I just promote my own guys as much as possible to save the bullshit. I've had my opinions about the whole thing, and I ended up with It's a Make Work Project.

I never got to where the OP did - just eliminate the whole thing altogether. As soon as he said it, I said why not indeed?

SO... we got guys in here saying "I know how to do it and it gives me a huge advantage."

Show your huge advantage; change my mind.

I can see the current system being a big negative for new owners who don't know the tricks experienced owners know to make it easier. New owners often quit the game before the regular season starts and this is likely a big part of the reason why.

There's a pretty good argument to be made that in the current MLB setup, most of the player development is really a result of the analytics and Player Dev departments, which aren't really based on one coach but rather an overall organizational philosophy. So it would really not only eliminate one of the more annoying pieces of the game, but also make it more realistic to just set overall budgets for hitting development, pitching development, and fielding development and call it a day rather than having to hire an individual person for each role. Set those three departments from $0-10M each or whatever and adjust the overall budgets accordingly.

We're not hiring individual team trainers or doctors. There's no real reason to do it with coaches other than "that's the way we've always done it" which is not usually a great reason to keep doing things.

Posted by dyoungquist on 4/16/2021 9:34:00 AM (view original):
I can see the current system being a big negative for new owners who don't know the tricks experienced owners know to make it easier. New owners often quit the game before the regular season starts and this is likely a big part of the reason why.

This is exactly how a Make Work Project works.

Posted by pullmeafredo on 4/16/2021 10:47:00 AM (view original):
There's a pretty good argument to be made that in the current MLB setup, most of the player development is really a result of the analytics and Player Dev departments, which aren't really based on one coach but rather an overall organizational philosophy. So it would really not only eliminate one of the more annoying pieces of the game, but also make it more realistic to just set overall budgets for hitting development, pitching development, and fielding development and call it a day rather than having to hire an individual person for each role. Set those three departments from $0-10M each or whatever and adjust the overall budgets accordingly.

We're not hiring individual team trainers or doctors. There's no real reason to do it with coaches other than "that's the way we've always done it" which is not usually a great reason to keep doing things.

+1 Maybe tweak it to be $1-5M in all 3 categories. Minimum of 1 since all real life MLB teams spend at least a little something on player development. Maximum of 5 because then if you max out all 3 you are spending $15M which is about the top end people spend now anyway. Then there is no need to tweak other aspects of the budget.

Yeah it wasn't you it was another dude.