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On a deeper dive, as someone noted, I am getting the rosters from the start of the season.
Also, I found many of the missing players are down somewhere in the minor league system.
However, those missing players on the opening day roster are being replaced by totally fictional players -- one that do not exist in the Pro Baseball Reference database -- not the players they would ultimately replace.
There was no Tommy O'Keefe, Brian Washington, Pat Baldini or Pedro Pineda in the Cardinals system or any place in MLB in 2004.
Also, players like the 2004 version Larry Walker, who the Cardinals acquired from Colorado in-season, is on the Rockies roster.
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