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Post ID	Date & Time	Game Date	Function
#49716	05/30/2017 6:56:06 pm		Ignore
Noodle Joined: 02/15/2016 Posts: 172 Inactive	Eric Thames immediately comes to mind.
#49720	05/30/2017 8:02:09 pm		Ignore
Rock777 Joined: 09/21/2014 Posts: 9592 Haverhill Halflings III.1	Guys going off to play in other leagues is a little different than guys not playing at all. In some sense you could consider all of the different leagues in the game like other world leagues. Or Steve's test leagues. Some players go off to those teams, and then return to the main leagues through FA.
#49723	05/30/2017 8:50:10 pm
admin Joined: 01/27/2010 Posts: 4985 Administrator	Eric Thames - wasn't he just playing in Japan. He wasn't out of baseball. Steve
#49726	05/31/2017 12:04:42 am		Ignore
FurySK Joined: 02/07/2015 Posts: 299 Inactive	Would be cool to pull a few names out of FA randomly, throw them into the international pool (americans or otherwise) and have them come back like Thames as some newly formed player with what he learned? Meh, probably too much work for not much payout.
#49727	05/31/2017 12:32:15 am		Ignore
nobodyjones Joined: 12/28/2011 Posts: 170 Seattle Rickey IV.1	http://www.baseball-reference.com/players/h/hamiljo03.shtml Updated Wednesday, May 31 2017 @ 12:32:58 am PDT
#49731	05/31/2017 7:46:41 am		Ignore
Squiddcatt Joined: 02/25/2016 Posts: 375 Inactive	Thames played in Korea. He plays for my home town team.
#49734	05/31/2017 12:32:59 pm		Ignore
metalbat13 Joined: 01/18/2016 Posts: 60 Inactive	So, to go back to my original unanswered question: has anyone ever picked up a BB free agent who has sat out a season or two and yet shows skill levels higher than the ones he had before becoming a free agent? I have always assumed in Broken Bat that players do not gain any skill points unless they actually play on a minor league or major league team. Steve, is this correct?
#49735	05/31/2017 1:56:28 pm		Ignore
Philliesworld Joined: 10/17/2014 Posts: 786 Pierre Jacobins III.3	Yes, I'm almost 100% sure that players dont gain any SI as free agents.
#49737	05/31/2017 2:59:57 pm		Ignore
newtman Joined: 11/02/2013 Posts: 3343 Inactive	The only time they gain as free agents is when they played games that week for the major league team, I think I saw that once. Minor league training doesn't count though if not with a ball club during the update. I am 100% sure on that considering the number of cases I have looked at over the years.
#49755	06/01/2017 10:16:31 am		Ignore
lostraven Joined: 07/02/2016 Posts: 1269 Corvallis Ravens II.1	The only other real-world (read: not BB) equivalent I can think of is a pitcher suffering a major injury, getting cut, not having a team for a while, then getting picked up again later by another team willing to take a post-injury gamble on the player. But the source of improvement, if any, is the questionable claim that some TJS recipients come back "better" than before. Otherwise yes, the most common seems to be a player taking a few years off, playing in an international or independent league, then returning to MLB. Oh, not a fan of basketball, but I also now remember Pat Connaughton, drafted by the Orioles, who then went on to play basketball after only pitching a few innings in Single-A. Could come back to baseball, but I seriously doubt it would be with any additional talent for the game (lost development time). EDIT: Would be fun in the future to have an element added to BB where some players in the FA pool go off and play overseas or in an independent league. Would have to make decisions on how the AI chooses which players go. And I suppose if the AI were to use a merit-based system, us managers would probably pay closer attention to FAs who have spent time in those foreign/independent leagues, thinking the AI is hinting that those players have more potential to pan out as something useful. *shrug* Updated Thursday, June 1 2017 @ 10:21:21 am PDT

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