I think what is happening here is that in 1962 Rico was in the minor leagues. Your 5yr recalc is from 1960-1964.
In 1963-1964 he had 457 major league AB. From 1960-1964 he had 1208 minor league AB and most of those were below the AA level. I think OOTP is basically taking those minor league stats and knocking him down based on the MLE of those levels.
I created a 5yr recalc game from 1871-2024 a couple days ago, but I turned of minor leagues. Rico Carty ended up with a career 134 OPS+ in OOTP and his Real OPS+ on BBR is 132.
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