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Originally Posted by Charlie Hough
I play with historical minors now and stopped using imports of rookies when they made their MLB debuts. Even if I still used the old method, it would fall far short of properly simulating how expansion teams could be built up with rules based on recent real-life expansions. Without the expansion teams being able to participate in the amateur draft one year before they begin in MLB, and without them having their minor league affiliates playing one year in advance, they can't stock their minor leagues or build out their organizations the way they should with historical minors. If you're playing with rookies based on when they made their MLB debuts, it's even worse because the expansion teams may not have access to the kind of amateur free agents, draft picks and other players who never made the majors but were were pivotal to helping them make trades and build out their organizations.
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So how / when do you bring them into the game? Manually a couple years early or something like that? Or do they just come in via the minors? What about guys that never played in them?