Seems to be working here. Had one Jim Unkown that had managed to become a coach, but otherwise no sightings of them in unusual places.
Size of Players.dat has started decreasing. Currently down to 619MB after one season (just after the start of offseason Free Agency). I'd expected it to go down significantly more, but will run another season and see what happens.
Game is still crashing when I try to include retired players in the "List All Major League Players" screen (not unexpected given the size of the database, but oddly I can filter by position and see the entirety of each list individually. I did not see any abnormal players (ie Jim Unknown), so I'll assume the players it didn't show me are positionless.
Working my way towards preseason, and have hope based on what I've seen so far that the rest of the databse will be cleaned up at that point.
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