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DonÂ’t know if this would work and have not tested it myself, but I’ll just throw it out there as a rough idea if someone wants to probe its possibilities.

Say you wanted to play a standard MLB 2024 game. In the game creation advanced mode you change the game year from 2024 to 2023. This might make all of the player ages one year younger. Then disable development and injuries, disable the draft, disable scouting discoveries / independent and international FAs and posted players, erase or disable the schedule. Advance the game to the end of the season. Enable all settings and proceed. Once calendar turns to Year Two, game world will now be in 2024. Players will be appropriate age, and no development / aging will have occurred (since development was disabled), and no statistics were accrued. Enable or (re-import, if necessary) 2024 schedule. Reimport original preset injury file (since I think recovery might still take have taken place even with development off). Make sure spring training is enabled. Proceed with game.

Again, this is an off-the-top-of-my-head hypothetical model (not in front of my computer at the moment). I tried to at least think of potential issues and propose a possible means of overcoming them into a “process” that is really just a sum-of-the-parts combination organized into a potential series of steps. If there is a solution to be found, maybe some small part of the foregoing can help someone find it.