First to clarify what I consider Minor League Cubs. All teams from 1900-1980 from the Negro, Cuban, Japanese, and the clubs from the American, International and Pacific Coast Leagues. I am not going to debate whether or not any of the aforementioned leagues should or should not be consider a major league. For the purposes of this replay they are all minor leagues, AAA, AA or A.
With the assistance from the Dave Koch PC Baseball and their home-brew season creators. I have expanded the best of the Minors to include Japanese and Negro League teams as well as the minor league teams from the American, International and Pacific Coast Leagues. I have include clubs from the early 1920s to as late as the late 1970s. There are 60 clubs in all, 6 divisions of 10 clubs each. Three divisions from the Industrial age, pre WWII and three from the Atomic, post WWII.
The six divisions are the International and American League clubs from 1920s, 1930s and 1940s. Note there are 3 Cuban Clubs from the late 1920s included in this division. A Japanese division with clubs from the 1940s, 1950s, 1960s and the 1970s. Two Negro League divisions with clubs from the late 1910s to the late 1940s. Two Pacific Coast Leagues from as far back as 1903 to the mid 1950s.
The preset leader boards based on their actual seasons include: Batting leaders; Negro League stars Josh Gibson of the Homestead Grays of 1943 at .466, Cristobal Torriente of the 1920 American Giants at .411. Jud Wilson of the Black Sox at .404. and Paul Waner of the 1925 Seals at .401. Sluggers Tony Lazzeri of the 1925 Salt Lake City Bees with 60 homers. Sadaharu Oh of the 1964 Yomiuri Giants at 55 dingers. He also slugged 50 in 1977 for the same club. Steve Bilko of the 1956 Angels and Clarence Kraft of the the 1924 Ft. Worth Panthers. Speedsters Yoshinori Hirose of 1964 Nankai Hawks with 72 Stolen Bases. Fred Haney of the 1934 Hollywood Stars with 68 and Carlos Bernier of the 1952 Hollywood Stars. Top pitchers include Dick Redding of the 1917 American Giants with a 0.82 era in 22 games and 153 innings pitched. Jiro Noguchi of the 1940 Tokyo club who held a 0.93 era pinching in 57 games an 387 innings pitched. Victor Starffin of the 1940 Kyojoin club who held a 0.97 era pitching in 436 innings winning 38 games. Noguchi and Starffin where also top strikeout pitchers with 273 and 245 respectively.
I have assigned ballpark ratings to each club using some major league equivalent parks (per AI internet searches). In all there are 35 different cities represented within the 60 clubs. There are 4 Los Angeles Angels of the PCL, 3 Yomiuri Giants of the JPBL. From the Negro Leagues there are 3 Homestead Grays, 3 Kansas City Monarchs, and 3 representing the Chicago American Giants.
Using the Standard Batter/Pitcher Average Rule with a season length of 90 games, 10 times each opponent in their division.
At the end of the 90 game season a 32 team playoff is scheduled. The top 16 clubs from each 30 team league will face off.
