Sam, I'm the GM who want it because :
It's a complete draft League starting tomorrow BTW...and as a GM yourself in your League I think it's will be fair to everyone in that League to test this rosters set before the draft. When you see a Nomar Garciaparra rated 4 for hits & 1 for HR ...

that's change all the facts.
I've import the 2001 season from Lahman database like you said & we still don't have the same rating, I really don't know where you take this rosters set.
No hard feelings