Promoting players hurts the minor league ratings. If Mayo, Heston, and Holliday all lose prospect status their minor league system probably falls out of the top 10. Its a dumb conspiracy but it feels true at times.
Hell look at 2022. Westburg and Stowers were ready to come up, they stayed in AAA. They could have came up and developed at the MLB level when we "weren't" trying to win (though we should have.