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For this Major League+AA combo league: amateur draft of 5 rounds that takes place 15 June. The retirements took place on or about 1 April (1.5 months before the draft) so the retirements did not seem related to finding places for newly drafted players (which would have been only 5 players per team).
So many players retired that some teams only had 10 players on their rosters.
Players who were first round picks in the previous year were retiring at the age of 18. Players who were 24-year old all-stars the previous year retired.
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