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I think from a pure player dev perspective contracting the minors makes sense, player dev got a lot more efficient (and expensive) so you don't need as many minor leaguers in hope they figure it out by coincidence.

For example you now can use high speed camera to find out why a new pitch is not working instead of just trying to teach 10 pitchers a new grip and hope that 4 learn an efficient third pitch.

There is downside of this too of course, towns are losing minor leagues so kids lose an opportunity to watch affordable pro ball. Sure there is indy ball but nobody cares about indy ball, people are watching milb because they feel tied to the main org and hope they see a couple future big leaguers.



Also keith law said that the quality of play has gone down a little since contraction of the minors, he believes that many players struggle with the jump from the complex to full season A ball so that A ball level of play has gone down because players who would have gone to low A are pushed up to A ball too early because the low A level is gone.

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