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Originally Posted by TomVeal
It's not clear to me how or why the reclassification of the Negro Major Leagues would affect players' ratings in OOTP. Nothing about the players or their abilities has changed. Aristotle said that even God can't alter the past. A fortiori, neither can Rob Manfred.
OOTP already, so far as I can discern, treats Josh Gibson, Satchel Paige, Martin Dihigo, Cool Papa Bell and their peers as the superstars that they were. Some of the lesser lights were also good and, if allowed to, could have competed in the white-only Majors. On the other hand, lots of Negro League players were scrubs, fillers and never-will-be's. They shouldn't be boosted just because they are now officially Major Leaguers.
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Just as a .300 hitter in AA does not translate into a good player in the majors, whether someone's .300 average or 2.30 ERA is considered to have been at AA or in MLB makes all the difference for the ratings. The players and their talents have not changed. They were ALWAYS major league quality play, as the results of the early Negro Leaguers who joined MLB showed, but since their league was classified as a minor league, OOTP treated their stats as such, which was always an error, but one justified by MLB's classification. So an upgrade of their play in the game is very much in order.