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Originally Posted by ALB123
Wow. That's cool. I wondered if anyone started from the very first year available. 
Speaking of 1948, OOTP blew me away once again. I knew that 1948 was supposed to be one of the busiest years in terms of minor league organizations, but I didn't think OOTP would recreate it completely. So, I started a 1948 season just as a test to see what OOTP actually did. I couldn't believe it... Staring back at me were 24 farm teams for the New York Yankees. I pulled up the Dodgers -- same thing.  It must be a nightmare if you try and micromanage a team's entire MiLB system at that period of time.  |
The minor leagues were run differently in 1948. Look at the Yanks' system on bb-ref. The vast majority of their teams used 18-25 total players all year. There had to have been very little movement between teams. MLB teams were still in the habit of mostly respecting a minor league team's... well... team-ness. They wouldn't usually call up their cleanup hitter so he could pinch hit three times a week, he'd keep being the Class B team's cleanup hitter all year. You'd go to spring training, set up your rosters, and largely just let them go the whole year.
Compare to 2019, where the Yanks' AA team used 28 position players, and another 30 pitchers.