I recently took over a franchise in Metropolis.  After spending a week or so building my spreadsheets of the farm system, I began to see a lot of problems with how players were promoted.  (Some worthwhile prospects were left in RL for 3+ seasons, some played 2 RL seasons then skipped levels, etc.)

Here's an example of a player with a weird (to me) promotion history: Mac Anderson. I'm trying to figure out what exactly caused him to miss his projections so badly.

Event	Season	CN	PW	LH	RH	BE	BR	BU	PP	ST	CT	LH	RH	VE	GB	P1	P2	P3	P4	P5
Current	-	15	0	28	15	19	9	57	59	72	57	55	68	28	59	81	66	52	53	42
Projected	-	17	0	34	15	25	11	63	61	78	74	66	81	28	68	92	72	61	66	45

He was in RL in S9, then AA in both S10 and S11.  He's in AAA now for S12, but obviously won't come close to his projections in control, splits, groundball ratio or individual pitches, since he's 23.

So, what factors do you all think ruined his development?  Is there something intrinsic to skipping levels that caused the "stall?"  He didn't pitch as many innings as I would have liked in S11, so there's that.

His pitching coaching at each level:

And sorry for the totally bizarre, 8-bit retro Nintendo-looking formatting.  I don't post a lot.

There's a bit of a ratings drop in S11 even, with P1.  I'm wondering if he had a big injury and was never DLed (and if it's possible to even check that.)

Projections are a best guess.  14m is a 2nd level best guess.    Don't know what the training budget is but 0 STM indicates "low".    After improving only 4 points between S10 and S11, one could guess he's way over-projected.   At 23 and in his 3rd season, I wouldn't expect much.    He should have pitched more last season, thus giving him 2-3 points improvement instead of 1, but that's about it.

Yeah, I checked DL but didn't see it.  However, that could explain his limited activity.    I think it's more neglect than anything else. 

could have been hit with a demotion penalty at some point

Thanks, MikeT23 and deanod, for taking the time to poke through his ratings/stats.  Probably a combination of all these things.