So I had recently completed a minor league trade with the Chicago Cubs, giving up a decent pitching prospect who was being squandered on my AAA team (my bullpen is pretty stacked at the moment), to get an infield prospect in return.
That was maybe a week ago (real time). Today, a story pops up in my inbox about a Chicago player getting injured off the field. It was Evan Crawford, the pitching prospect who had been in my minor league system, and my immediate thought was, "Oh man, I traded him just in time for him to get injured. Funny."
Only... I realized after a second that this story had him listed as a left fielder. Did Crawford have potential as a batter, and I had missed it? That didn't make sense. And then suddenly it hit me that I HADN'T traded Evan Crawford to the Cubs. I had traded a different pitching prospect. Puzzled, I looked at the news story again - it was Evan Crawford, no doubt, same facegen and everything, wearing a Cubs uniform. I checked my AAA team - yep, there he was, still pitching for me.
Seriously, look at this:
They're not the same player. Mine is 30 years old, Chicago's is 28. But both are real players - according to their History pages, my Evan Crawford was drafted in 2008, while Chicago's was drafted in 2009. My guess is that OOTP has a single facegen file for "Evan Crawford" and used it for both guys, but it threw me for one hell of a loop.