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Originally Posted by Spritze
The leagues and the majority of teams are independent until the mid-60's. The challenge is that the MLB can hoard players on their reserve rosters if they have no minor league teams to send them to. Even though IRL MLB teams may not have controlled minor league teams they often loaned them players while keeping control of the players reserve clause rights. OOTP does not currently support this so it uses reserve rosters instead.
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The players are definitely on rosters. When I get to 1921 and the PCL forms without players, it's never with a ton a free agents available The list of free agents is usually extremely limited. Sim through 21 and get to 22. The PCL will still be empty except for the Angels, but again the list of free agents is very limited. There just needs to be a way to distribute the players.
For me, ML teams without minor league affiliates should maintain at least a 25-30 man reserve roster. My aim is to play with injuries at normal or higher. After that, all other players should find their way on to minor league rosters. I really think this would happen if players didn't retire prematurely.
I'm currently playing a 1906 MLB league. I created the league in 1901. Simmed ahead till preseason 1906. I then erased all history and held a draft. Of course, doing this in a straight historical won't mess anything up history wise, because there is no penalty for erasing all history. Using real minors doesn't allow this though. If I start in 1919 and say Hal Chase played prior to 1919, but missed the 1919 season, he will show up with all his stats in 1920. So, I get a league with a Hal Chase leaderboard. It seems to me, that if we were allowed to erase history---we could sim enough years ahead to build up enough real life retired/non OOTP retired guys to make roster fuller. I think I'm rambling, but I hope it makes sense.