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Yeah, I know that stuff.
However doesn't like to use it thanks to that is mostly when players missed a full year because of injury. Having injury on at any level in game will add extra time a player could miss a year.
Kind of double injury jeopardy.

In the past I recall that if you started a certain year and a player was out or played in Japan he wasn't imported that year. Even further back versions he just never ever popped up, but when that missing year was fixed he did pop up in the "correct" team and year.
A bit like Nomo and rest of the later Japanese and Cubans hopefully will do.

I found out that Nomo accually signed as a minor league contract at first.
It was a minor league deal for the 26-year-old right-hander, but that was more a formality. Nomo received a signing bonus of over $2 million, and was the first Japanese star player to migrate to the big leagues.