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Originally Posted by szathkey
There is also the issue of expansion, especially in expansion-era historical. If the draft is not held right after the end of the regular season, there are not enough players to fill minor league teams that come with the expansion team.
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To get this truly right, expansion teams should draft players at least one year before they join MLB in OOTP. For example, the Marlins and Rockies drafted their first players in the June 1992 amateur draft, several months before the expansion draft and well before they began MLB play in the 1993 season. Then they added more players to their minor league affiliates from the June 1993 draft. The Rays and Diamondbacks drafted their first amateurs in 1996, two years before their franchises debuted in MLB, so they had two drafts' worth of players to stock their minor league clubs ahead of time.
However, this would require OOTP to create those organizations without actually making them part of MLB or the schedule yet. That would probably create all sorts of challenges.