Sorry about the confusion, but I asked
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Do the players who spent the whole season in non-included leagues (such as the Western Carolinas League, mentioned above) reappear next year, or will they have to be added in, manually?
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and got a "Yes" in reply. Yes to which? Yes, they reappear, or yes, they'll have to be added manually? (Thanks for replying, though.)
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There is no minor league transaction file with dates so the players mentioned are based on who they played for not when and nothing else.
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Well, these are all major league transactions; it was the Mets who signed/cut Lepcio, traded for Herrscher, claimed Foss on waivers, etc., not one of their affiliates.
But I assume we're not simply wondering why a roster is inaccurate, we're trying to fix the inaccuracies, right? So that's in "a difference that makes no difference is no difference" territory, I'd think. Given the size of the project, a certain amount of errors were bound to be inevitable; I'm not casting blame or anything.
On to Houston, the Mets' expansion partner:
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George Brunet, who went commando under his uniform (source:
Ball Four), is listed with Houston. He should be with Milwaukee; the trade for Ben Johnson (who is correctly with Houston's AAA team, Oklahoma City; good catch on the "unknown transaction" by which Houston acquired Johnson from the Cubs) doesn't happen until May 16
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Billy Goodman is with Houston; he should be with the White Sox. The Sox don't cut him until April, and he doesn't sign with Houston until May 15.
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Tom Borland is with the Colt .45s farm in Durham, whereas
Dave Philley is with Seattle (Red Sox AAA). This is premature; the Borland for Philley trade doesn't happen until March 24, and we're on March 3. The players should be with their current organizations.
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Dean Stone (Cardinals) and
John Weekly (Giants) were Rule V acquisitions, and should be marked/coded as such.
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Dick Drott and
George Williams should start the season on the 60-day DL; they both had military duty and weren't able to play until July. (No way I'll be able to catch this in every case, but Houston was a first-year expansion team, so there was an article analyzing their expansion draft that I found. So we've got these two, anyhow.)
More to come.