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I'd noticed this before, and it's not a big deal, but I'm curious why it's happening and if there's a setting I can use to change it.

I released a scrub in my minor league system. A week or so later I went to the FA listing to see if anyone had picked him up yet, and he was gone. So I checked the Major League transaction logs. No one was listed as signing him. So I clicked on his name from the log entry where my organization released him, and I found him playing on a minor league affiliate of the Dodgers. When I looked at the player's transaction history, it shows he was released by the St. Louis Browns "organization", but he signed a minor league contract with the Montreal Royals "organization". So he didn't sign a minor league contract with the Dodgers "organization", he was signed directly by the minor league affiliate.

When my team signs players to a minor league contract, it use the major league team name (i.e. "Signed a minor league contract with the St. Louis Browns organization"). Curious why it seems to be different for AI teams.

So I'm not sure what to make of this. Do all AI managed teams have their affiliates sign minor league players directly? Or is it sometimes the major league team and sometimes the minor league team? I don't remember this being an issue until recent versions. I assumed that in real life the major league club made the signings and then assigned personnel to the affiliates - I didn't think the individual teams signed players - but maybe I'm wrong.

Just curious if this is "normal", and if it's not, is it a bug? Is there a setting I can set somewhere to prevent *affiliated* minor league teams from signing players and force the major league teams to do it instead? Like I said, it's not a big deal, but it's harder to track player movement because signings made by minor league teams don't show up in the major league transaction logs.

Thanks!