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I don't have the game yet as I've only tried the demo, so forgive me if I seem rather naive. The Game Guide says the Reserve Roster size is 200-# on active roster. But it also implies that the reserve roster serves as a de facto minor league system, where players develop as an average minor leaguer would. That would tell me that possibly older players ,who've been on major league teams before, would be "offended" in being sent down and then would consider retirement based on their age, and then retire after a certain time. Having a reserve roster size that could be ~175 players wouldn't necessarily have an effect on retiring or not.
A few questions:
1) Which roster do your annual draftees get placed? And how long do they stay there before being called up?
2) What event initiates transactions to send veterans down to the reserve roster? New draftees? Reserve guys developing?
3) What are your trading options set to? Would this same phenomena be happening if frequency was set to Very Low? (not sure if Free Agency has these settings)
4) Would eliminating the reserve roster and having one level of minors achieve the same result?
In all, I think your findings are somewhat alarming, there's something definitely going on.
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