Thus, the quote from Marty concerning the gap.
Now if you compare AA talent and MLB talent you'll probably get a different opinion.
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Im not sure about that, becuase while there is probably more high end talent guys there, there is a lot more low end talent there as well.
I couldn't tell you the whens and the whys, I'm afraid. I do know that the most recent version of the plan was written in 1996, though.
But it definitely takes 10 years to become fully vested. In Tom Browning's book, for example, he denies that he closed out his career with two starts in KC simply to accrue the necessary service time to get him up to ten years. But that's what happened, coincidentally. ;)
That's true. We've had this discussion before and this reason is often given about why African-Americans don't play baseball as much as they used to in the big leagues.
But this is a different discussion. We're talking about the difference between AAA and MLB and if there is as large of a gap as the Marty says.