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Pelican · 11-28-2022, 10:15 PM

Many thanks. I may take you up on that offer. I’m having fun with this sim, but at the same time I’m tempted to start over and edit those files. My goal has been to avoid the collapse of a great A’s team and sell-off of players, due to the Depression financial pressure. Also to integrate baseball fifteen years early. And yes, to spread the minor league teams somewhat evenly among the sixteen major league franchises.

That raises a somewhat unrelated minor league question. The 1932 Pacific Coast League has eight independent teams, full of some interesting players; although their OOTP ratings are low, compared to MLB - even for the best players. Yet, this is where all three DiMaggio brothers started, and Ted Williams. Why didn’t more major league teams scout aggressively and buy the better players? Lack of money? Did PCL vets resist coming east to play? In my 1932 Season, a number of weak MLB teams purchased the contracts of good PCL players, with mixed results. Of course, this was in the midst of Negro League players getting signed by MLB teams, as well. I just have trouble understanding how the PCL managed to survive for many years as an independent, but AAA-level, league. I guess in the years when travel was by train, it just was not feasible to expand to the West Coast, and players there tended to stay?

11-28-2022, 10:15 PM	#16
Pelican Hall Of Famer Join Date: Mar 2021 Location: Wilmington, Delaware Posts: 2,893	Many thanks. I may take you up on that offer. I’m having fun with this sim, but at the same time I’m tempted to start over and edit those files. My goal has been to avoid the collapse of a great A’s team and sell-off of players, due to the Depression financial pressure. Also to integrate baseball fifteen years early. And yes, to spread the minor league teams somewhat evenly among the sixteen major league franchises. That raises a somewhat unrelated minor league question. The 1932 Pacific Coast League has eight independent teams, full of some interesting players; although their OOTP ratings are low, compared to MLB - even for the best players. Yet, this is where all three DiMaggio brothers started, and Ted Williams. Why didn’t more major league teams scout aggressively and buy the better players? Lack of money? Did PCL vets resist coming east to play? In my 1932 Season, a number of weak MLB teams purchased the contracts of good PCL players, with mixed results. Of course, this was in the midst of Negro League players getting signed by MLB teams, as well. I just have trouble understanding how the PCL managed to survive for many years as an independent, but AAA-level, league. I guess in the years when travel was by train, it just was not feasible to expand to the West Coast, and players there tended to stay? __________________ Pelican OOTP 2020-? ”Hard to believe, Harry.”