In the last post I discussed various things related to how I think baseball around the world looks, or should look, in Alt-1915. Since I've been thinking about it, I also figure I should write down some specifics about the Cuban and Dominican Leagues.
There are something like 5 countries with national leagues coming into 1925: Mexico, Nicaragua, Japan, the Philippines (if only in Manila), the Netherlands. The number of MLB or minor league players in the sim from those countries is, I think, zero. When the World Cup comes around the players for those countries can be drawn from the stars of those leagues, and if I decide to do an Asian Championship, I can take the Philippine and Japanese champions to represent their countries. As far as Caribbean Series, though, certainly have Cubans in both MLB and the minors. Cuba has teams in the developmental league, and the players are mostly not Cubans, and the plans I have for an affiliated Antilles League will similarly have teams in Cuba and the DR with mostly North American rosters because that's what the minor leagues are. But I would like to give the chance for Cubans to play on Cuban teams and Dominicans to play on DR teams without divorcing those cities from the affiliated MLB system.
So, I think the way to handle it is to have winter Cuban and DR leagues, which I think would have to be run as tournaments (at least the Cuban one) so that the Cuban MLB/MiLB players could stay on whatever teams they were on and just be loaned out. I think I can do that? So, the Cuban League would have four teams--Havana, Almendares, Santa Clara, and Cienfuegos? And the Dominican League would be the Tigres del Licey, Estrellas Orientales, Leones del Escogido, and Águilas Cibaeñas? And so then there could be a Caribbean Series with not just the winners of the Mexican and Nicaraguan Leagues, but also the winners of these Cuban and Dominican Leagues, though it might be that I'd have to create those teams by hand for a Caribbean Series?
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