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Originally Posted by WTO

I want to play the Mariners somewhere starting in 1999-2002. However when I start up the game and use the historical option, it doesn't come with any minor league teams, just the 30 MLB teams. How do I get this to work? Thanks

The only league that will have fuill minor leagues is the quickstart on the start screen. All historical league will not have minor leagues as there are no career minor leaguers in the Lahman database. You can add minor leagues from the creation wizard or under advanced Options. They will be fictional teams with real cities. Use Baseball ref to make them accurate. 1999, which the year I started with in my EBL vs MLB will only have 5-10 minor leaguers per team so there won't be enough players to completely fill up all levels until around 2005. with just players to have played MLB and then many get stuck in the minors and never play in the majors.
What I suggest it create MAL/FBL league delete all ML teams all levels except the levels you want. Mass delete all history, players, stats, coaches & owners. Save this as a template. Start your 1999 historical league, add template, affiliate all AAA, AA what ever you bring in from the MAL/FBL league, then you are going to want to use ghost players if you do not have enough players to field a full team. I believe a full team is 2 pitchers and 9 position players.
I suggest adding 1 level every 2 seasons.