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Originally Posted by Le Grande Orange
I presume you mean trades, sales, and releases. Because a comprehensive, fully accurate listing of options, recalls, and disabled list assignments from the start of major league history doesn't exist.
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It doesn't. And from years of experience and doing baseball replays sims every attempt I've seen doesn't even come close to success.
Unless SABR or the likes does something like this it's unlikely, unless every archive for this time of information gets computerized. Until very recently the press didn't get word of every recall, option, assignment and if you go back a little further many moves were not even "official".
There are many stories in baseball up until the 1960s where players were "sent down" to the minor league club when in reality they just hung out around the big club for a week or so until they were needed. It was common when it was more expensive to arrange for train tickets to and from Toledo than it was to pay a guy a partial salary and have him stay in town. Teams would have a 24 man active roster and still have a group of journeymen rotate in and out of the roster as needed. An extra catcher, an extra arm, and OFer. The team would just report a guy as injured to the league and let someone else play.
Ever wonder why some major league players played only 30 games a season in the bigs but also have barely any stats at the minor league level. You'd think these guys would start in Scranton. They would but often they were never there.