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Originally Posted by Painmantle
I'm really interested in possibly running a online league using real historical minors, and I've been looking for a rhyme or reason why some of the players end up in the Free Agent pool and I can't figure it out. The ones that concern me are the guys who played in the minors that year, had a pretty good or very good season, their team moved and they ended up in the free agent pool with nothing in their history detailing how they got there. It would seem these players would be retained by their franchise
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I believe that if a previously unaffiliated minor becomes affiliated, all of its players are released. So, for instance, if the Scranton Hush Puppies are unaffiliated in 1940, but they become a minor-league affiliate of Brooklyn in 1941, all of the players on the Scranton roster at the end of 1940 will be released as free agents.