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Originally Posted by David Watts
Unless you're using real transactions, you're probably playing the game as a gm/manager. That means you're signing, trading for and developing players in an effort to build a winning franchise. So, having players disappear from your system due to some historical precedent is not acceptable. If the Pirates lose their affiliate in 1931 according to history, then before that affiliate disappears, all the players should be moved to the Pirates reserve roster.
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Except for one thing: the reserve limit, meaning the number of players a club can have under contract at one time, was 40 players. So, at most, Pittsburgh could have retained 15 of its minor league assortment, and it also would have been paying them even though they wouldn't be playing in any games.
Given what was happening in the early 1930s, i.e. the Great Depression, cutting costs was the order of the day. Major League clubs cut the salaries of the players on their active rosters, and, in 1932, reduced the active roster size to 23 players for the central portion of the season (clubs could still carry up to 40 players, or its entire reserve amount, from opening day through May 15th and for September).