so…i guess you’d need 10-12 guys then. oh, the potential for suck would be extraordinary, especially as the presupposition is that they’ll all be rookies (or virtually so), and not rule 5/expansion draft veteran pickups.

but if I could create my own fantasy team with all players considered rookies using otherwise MLB rules, I might give it a go for a while until I’ve evaluated every pitcher on my staff.

one could do a lesser version of this – rotate your slot 5 starts between two young players, sending down to AAA immediately after the start, whenever you have an offday at least once every 5 days (otherwise you can’t use a pitcher the second time his slot comes up, as that’s the 10th day he’s in the minors). That way you can give both pitchers MLB experience. Both would get AAA work. On days when both pitchers are optioned to AAA, you could rotate in a optioned position player for 4 games (obviously you’d have to rotate between the two of these), effectively making yourself have a 26-man roster when the pitchers aren’t pitching. The travel costs for rotating these 4 players around could get pretty steep though, plus the pitchers may or may not be exposed to a lot of play at the MLB level on their day not-in-the-rotation.