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Originally Posted by Spritze
Almost all players pre-1960 or so started their professional baseball careers on unaffiliated minor league teams or leagues and so OOTP would assign those players to its free agent list. Which means they could be signed to play with any team.
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In my mind, this would not be a bad thing. Players who did come up through 'systems' could be assigned to those teams, which would be an advantage (as it was historically) to those teams which maintained systems. Ideally this would be counterbalanced by an additional cost in the game to those teams (minor league personnel cost, for example), which teams without systems would not have to pay.
Players who came up through unaffiliated minors would have to be 'discovered', much as the current 'create and maintain hidden players' system works. You could use your foreign scouting to search for these players until affiliations became universal (around the time I want to start), after which they would actually begin searching for foreign players. If that doesn't work (using one system for two purposes might not be possible), you could use minor league scouting for the same purpose.
Or do I have no idea what I'm talking about?