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Thanks so much for taking the time to write all that, I appreciate it. Now I just have to figure out what to do with my entire organization full of "Fair" quality coaches...

Additional note on drafting, you won't have to sign ALL your kids, necessarily. I over-generalized with that. The ones you'll definitely have to sign: Round 1-5 picks.

After that, it will depend on the signability for your team. Namely Extremely Hard and Impossible are the ones that will very often require signing bonuses, with "Impossible" not even saying what they want and being very, very hard to sway.

If you fail to sign a kid that was drafted high enough (I think first five rounds), you'll get compensation picks next draft.

Now, about your coaches...don't go by reputation.

Reputation <> Ability. It only reflects success of the teams he's been on and impacts salary amounts and tweaks the "how much control I retain" aspect of managers.

For managers, best thing to do is click "Relationships" and see what their development influence is. "Development Influence" is made up of the Handling and Teaching ratings. Manager personality has an impact. The relations box on the right can give some clues too (if it's all pitchers on the "Bad Relationship" side...this manager probably has lower Teaching Pitching). You don't get any exact numbers but looking at the names on the lists can give some clues.

Personable is a negative to development, but will allow the most GM input and usually foster better clubhouse relationships. Controlling is the most positive to development, but allows the least (sometimes none if reputation is high enough) input from the GM and can rub some players the wrong way, especially older players.

Personable -> Easygoing -> Normal -> Tempermental -> Controlling from worst to best in development (based on the influence I see from Development Influence ratings) and from most to least in accepting GM input.

This applies to lineups as well.

Handling: Rookies (young players), Veterans (older players), "Players" (those that don't fit in the other two categories)

Teaching: Hitting, Pitching, Fielding, Running - does what it says on the tin.

For coaches that are NOT managers but are interested in maybe trying it one day, you'll see a line that says something like:

"KBLover would make an average manager one day."

This is a one sentence blurb summarizing the Handling and Teaching ratings. If any of the handling ratings is "significantly" higher or lower (the amount seems relative, probably percentage based), you'll see something like:

"KBLover has worked well with younger players in the past. He's not gotten along as well with veterans."

For coaches that are NOT managers and do NOT have interest in trying it one day...you get nothing. Only way to really evaluate that is to either peek in the editor or watch your players performances and developments closely, since those are the two areas most impacted by the coaches.

So I recommend trying to find guys who want to be managers or even outright trying to hire managers for other spots. They can and do take "lower" jobs. John Farrell is one I LOVE for pitching coach. He makes a very solid manager as well.

But whatever you do, don't necessarily equate reputation with ability. Look at "Unproven" guys. You might find an undiscovered talent. Always look at Relationships for Managers and look for those blurbs on other guys.

BTW, you can select what team you want in the top right when viewing relationships (for all staff). This will show you specifically to that level. So if you have a prime A-ball prospect you want to hone in on, you can use this to check if the coach would have higher influence on that kid, in case you want to factor that into your "interview process", as it were. This is where the "Style" part comes in.

"Style" influence what types of players he'll have a higher influence with. I like sticking to Neutral, unless you're going to favor one type of pitcher/hitter or another or you have some top kids that gravitate towards a style and you want to emphasize them. They can and do influence ALL players, regardless of style. The style might also influence how players develop. I'm not terribly certain/have evidence of that, but it would make sense that a power-style pitching coach would try to increase velocity or a contact-style hitting coach would try to raise avoiding K's and BABIP, etc.

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