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Originally Posted by Jamee999
One thing you can do is have MLB importing historical players "in the background". MLB is active as a league, it has a draft of historical players every year, but no games and no playoffs. Then, the day after the draft, you can just one-click release everyone on an MLB roster and they'll all become free agents. (It may also be possible to just have the players import as free agents directly, I'm not sure.)
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My preference is to not have to manipulate the game so historical players can be integrated into the baseball system so they can land on teams. My preference is that, as time goes on, as we move from season to season and as players come online when it's their time, they merely show up and are signed as a free agent by a team, as opposed to me having to manually move them around to fulfill the sense of verisimilitude I would be seeking for this idea. See what I'm asking for?
The bonus thing I'd like to happen is for players to be signed as free agents by team in their region when it's time, in some automatic way. For example, when Cy Young shows up he's signed by a team in Ohio; when Ty Cobb shows up he's signed by a team in the deep south; Walter Johnson is signed by a team in California; Babe Ruth is signed by a team in the mid-Atlantic states; etc. Kind of like real life.