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Originally Posted by 1991Twins
My best guess: Latin America would be a trickle in the early 1980s and a spike in the 1990s. Japan trickle after 1995 and spike after 2001.
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Thanks 1991Twins. Those are pretty much exactly what I remember too.
Nomo-Mania was pretty incredible. Ok, I think I'll hold off for another 4-5 years then, to have it more in line with how it went down in real life.
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Originally Posted by jimmysthebestcop
I knew I read some where that MLB is 20%+ foreign and someone posted a follow up confirming it and it was basically almost 30%. So a good deal of the league is foreign and this is at the MLB level. Not the minor league level. I'm not sure if those numbers exist.
When I have service time and roster limits turned ON most of my time is spent managing my minor leagues. My mlb level the team is either good or not good. It doesn't take that many man hours to run the mlb team. There are only so many changes you can do right.
But the minors?? You have to constantly check in on them. See who had a hot month, a cold month, who is hurt, etc. Promotions/Demotions sometimes for injury reasons and sometimes because the guy has enough at bats where he was good to move up.
I also have to scour the universe looking for minor league players. The vast majority will never reach the MLB level or even an INT level. But constantly looking. Those other leagues cut someone they are free agents. You might find an <19 Japanese player or even Cuban player who was cut. If my guys think they are 2 to 2.5 stars I am signing them to minor league contracts. I review all of the Indy leagues looking to buy players with less then 4 years service.
Default settings are fine it takes less human man hours. Once you add service time and roster limits expect the human man hours that you spend on your minor league system to grow exponentially unless you want to roll with AI doing a good job for you.
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Oh, I easily believe 30% of MLB is foreign. Easily. Unfortunately, African-American numbers are way down and the league needs to figure something out or those numbers will continue to nose-dive.
I'm not concerned with man hours at all. I already spend an ungodly amount of time on my minor leagues because I'm always making little adjustments to lineups and depth charts to make sure the right people are getting the right amount of playing time, while not ignoring the 2nd string guys. I'm often on ootp 21 for hours and hours and after two days I still haven't advanced my sim by a single day. I've just been scouring rosters - absorbing the statistics I have on other team's players to shortlist or try to pull off a trade very soon. Due to health issues, my life is pretty much just like the current "Shelter in place" guidelines, but for me it's 24/7/365. I might be wrong, but I think that if I at least put in roster limits of 50-60 for Rookie League, 35-40 Short-Season A, 35-37 Advanced A, 35 for AA and 30-35 AAA I'll probably save myself some time with the lineup/rotation obsession I have, but I'm sure my total hours in ootp each day won't change. There is just so much that can be done to stay on top of an organization.
I'm sure I've asked you this before, so please forgive me, but when I decide to activate the Japanese & Latino systems do I set those up as "Feeder Leagues"? And are there options to control the relationship with those new leagues and MLB? Like, can I limit the numbers of Japanese League players that can be imported to our MLB/MiLB each season? Like 1991Twins mentioned, it took a while before MLB was really sold on the idea of taking players from the Asian Leagues. I wonder if I should activate the Independent Leagues right now (1987). It will never be completely like it was in real life, but I try to keep things as close as I can. A few people have told me not to use HS & College feeder systems, although I must confess I don't remember
why they suggested I avoid them.