RITM
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I would agree that playing in the minors is every bit as challenging/demanding as playing in the majors. It is a tough world in MiLB.
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Fans select the 9 starters from each league, then 18 spots are picked by the players ballot meaning managers, coaches, & players vote for 18 spots. Then the all star manager fills the last 7 spots & has to make sure there is 1 player from each team.
That is nonsense. It isn't physically tougher to play everyday in the big leagues as it is to play everyday in the minors. They are still playing everyday. It doesn't take more effort to play in the majors just bc the competition is better.
I don't think you can prove this. You're able to get by and stay on a team with less than 100% effort if you're playing against inferior competition.
1. Buster Posey, C | Giants |
2. Mariano Rivera, P | Yankees |
3. Yadier Molina, C | Cardinals |
4. David Wright, 3B | Mets |
5. Matt Harvey, P | Mets |
6. Bryce Harper, OF | Nationals |
7. Derek Jeter, SS | Yankees |
8. Manny Machado, 3B | Orioles |
9. Mike Trout, OF | Angels |
10. Yasiel Puig, OF | Dodgers |
In milb if you don't perform you go down or get cut. That's not mentally challenging? You are competing not only with the other team, but with your own players as well. You dont get by in the minors with bad effort. Just as challenging as MLB. And for a lot of these guys, gone doesnt just mean out of baseball, gone means out of the U.S, and back to a life of poverty.I don't think you can prove this. You're able to get by and stay on a team with less than 100% effort if you're playing against inferior competition.
But regardless, the level of fatigue one suffers in the MLB is unquestionably greater. Fatigue doesn't only include physical aspects.
That's the real answer I wanted. I was being a little snide wording it as a rule question, but this is what I wanted to get at. The crux of my value argument is that Puig's performance (and stardom/marketing value) is good enough to supercede such a minimum. Surely there is a level of play that would supercede any games limit. Shoot, if a guy hit 30 home runs in 10 games, I'd sure as hell want him in the All Star Game.
In any case I wonder if our difference of opinion is based more on whether or not his performance warrants exception to your artificial (but also practical and not at all unreasonable) minimum PA requirement or if the minimum is a hard and fast rule that allows for no exception.
That is nonsense. It isn't physically tougher to play everyday in the big leagues as it is to play everyday in the minors. They are still playing everyday. It doesn't take more effort to play in the majors just bc the competition is better.
Agreed. If anything it's harder as they're traveling by bus and staying in crappy hotels.
Are we really trying to prove if MiLB players have less fatigue than MLB players (physical or mental)?
Everything is relative.
A high school baseball player up to bat in the bottom of the 9th, bases loaded with the State Championship on the line with a packed crowd of 2,000 would feel the same as an MLB player up to bat in the bottom of the 9th, bases loaded with the World Series on the on line in front of a packed house of 60,000. Pressure and exhaustion are relative.
I'd get exhausted mentally and physically playing hockey in tournaments at 10, just like I would in college and later. Sure, the talent was better...but it was no more or less exhausting relatively.
In milb if you don't perform you go down or get cut. That's not mentally challenging? You are competing not only with the other team, but with your own players as well. You dont get by in the minors with bad effort. Just as challenging as MLB. And for a lot of these guys, gone doesnt just mean out of baseball, gone means out of the U.S, and back to a life of poverty.