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Originally Posted by Brad K
If you enable development without recalc players who were mediocre until 30 and good thereafter will not develop into good late career players. Also players who made drastic changes in the position they play will not have that happen. For example, neither Robin Yount nor Al Oliver will develop in to competent CFs.
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This isn't necessarily true. In theory, until their possible development runs out due to age, a player could still become a good late-career player. I'm sure it's rare, but theoretically the development engine could have a player reach his potential or even develop higher potential and higher ratings late in his career.
If you import historical players and assign fielding based on their career fielding ratings, I believe Yount and Oliver would be competent center fielders. Even if you don't use those settings, as long as you're using the coaching system and spring training, you can train players to play new positions, especially if you have them work on it in spring training. It's not as effective during the regular season. But theoretically if you want historical players to learn new positions, you could train them to do so. But you're right that they won't do it on their own.