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I'm late to the discussion, but historical minors and adjustments for players with lower AB or IP can allow some teams to overachieve with pretty dramatic results. I have seen this multiple times in OOTP 24.
Player ratings can be quite good for those who had excellent stats in the minors but didn't do well in the majors. That can allow those players to be great contributors and help teams overachieve.
A perfect example was Fran Mullins in my 1980 White Sox game. In AAA that year, he was .278/.348/.470 with 18 HR and 74 RBI in 413 AB. He was also a really good fielder. Based on his combined MiLB and MLB stats, OOTP gave him really solid ratings, which allowed him to be the team's starting shortstop all season. He ended up leading the team in HR and having a phenomenal season. Along with a an outstanding young pitching rotation and players such as Chet Lemon, who had big seasons, he helped the White Sox win the pennant.
Also, I believe this has now been addressed in fixes for some of the ratings calculations based on minor league stats, but, in earlier builds of OOTP 24, some players with minors-only stats were given inflated ratings. In these cases, AAA-only and occasionally AA-only players with no MLB stats were calculated as if they'd produced their stats at the MLB level. This allowed them to make rosters and help teams overachieve. But I reported it as a bug, and a newer build supposedly fixed it. I haven't tested it yet, though, but I'll be doing that with a new save soon.
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