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You have way too many relievers, up until around 1939. And too many pitchers in general until around 1920. A more historical breakdown would be:
1871-1880 2 SP, 0 RP
1881-1887 3 SP, 0 RP
1888-1895 4 SP, 0 RP
1896-1904 5 SP, 0 RP
1905-1914 6 SP, 0 RP
1915-1923 6 SP, 1 RP
1924-1928 6 SP, 2 RP
1929-1933 6 SP, 1 RP
1934-1938 6 SP, 2 RP
1939-1945 5 SP, 3 RP
1946-???? 5 SP, 4 RP
Those numbers are all approximate - I'd have to do a lot more research to get more accurate figures. In general, the 1920s saw staffs average around 7, but some clubs still used 5 pitchers on a regular basis. It appears that clubs trimmed rosters during the Depression. By 1939 most teams relied on 5 pitchers for the majority of their starts, although other pitchers on the staff could still be expected to pick up starts here and there (in OOTP terms, they'd be relievers who had "emergency starter" as a secondary role). I didn't look much beyond 1946, as pitching staffs started looking more like "modern" staffs by the 1950s.
These numbers assume that "allow starters in relief" would be checked for the entire period up to 1945. There should really be no relievers at all until around 1915, and even then most relievers were just failed starters until approximately 1930, with a few notable exceptions. The starting rotation mode should be "start highest rested" until about 1939, at which point it should go to "strict rotation, occasionally start highest rested."
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