OOTP will randomly retire players and personnel at the end of a season. Since we try to stay tethered to real life but I don’t want to be manually updating a ton of stuff, we need some rule to make the process manageable.
I’ve decided that the work to unretire personnel is not worth the effort for me. In the first two seasons my Scout, Pitching Coach, and various minor league coaches retired. Instead of unretiring them, I replaced them. I did the same for all personnel. I’m going to continue this practice.
I have unretired players. Going forward, and to minimize the work for me, I’m willing to unretire players upon request and during a finite time period. The period run from the end of the regular season until one export before the non-tender deadline.
For the 2021 season, the deadline to request that players be unretired (and returned to their previous contract) will be Saturday, November 21st at noon export (real and game dates).
REQUESTS MUST BE POSTED AS A COMMENT ON THIS THREAD!
The latter requirement is necessary to track.
Desmond Lindsay, Elian Gonzalez, Cody Wilson, Edgar Arredondo, Chad Hockin and Greg Minier are itching to play for the Padres again and want to be reinstated please
I unretired the players who were still on your team at the end of the season and returned them to your team. A few of them had been released earlier in the year.
Please unretire Trent Thornton from the Phillies
I unretired Thornton and added him to the free agent list because you released him back in September.
My list of guys released that I would like in my farm system are: Lewis Thorpe, Mark Montgomery, Jared Miller, Gerardo Reyes & Vijay Miller.