[The Game]

I have played 11 seasons over 4 leagues on 17 and only rarely do i see the C handle a foul ball. 3B , 1B, LF, RF and even the P have as well.

From my experience playing all those teams in the modern era you will have some wacky scores. 1970's - late 80's modifiers tend to be better for teams for 1990 and before but will lessen the teams from 1991 and after.
There has to be a trade off somewhere. Teams of the deadball era didn;t hit HR so when I play the 1917 White Sox and Shoeless Joe Jackson with 2015 modifiers, while he will hit .335 or better he might hit 25-50 HR. You go too early Sammy Sosa's 1998 Cubs he hits 25-35 HR vs 60+.
Each version of OOTP is better then the last and while 13 is a great version, 17 is better then 17 in many ways.
Take the time to set up the league the right way and you should be happy with the results.
You also do not have to create a fictional league and delete the teams and players to set up a historical league of historical teams 1st. You import the historical teams overwriting the fictional teams. Worse case you can mass delete teams, players & coaches. takes 5 mins.