The issue I found is starting infielders.
Canada is loaded with starting pitchers!

So, how many starting slots, and how many bench slots, in total per team?

Japan has the same problem. They have literally just one catcher, and no primary first or third basemen. Nobody is going to take that team unless it gets opened up to include American players of Japanese descent (Kurt Suzuki, for example) or combined with other Asian countries like Korea, Taiwan, or Australia.

Cakes, what about if Japan & Korea were put together as one team if Japan literally can't fill a roster (I'm including terrible MLB players, not literally none)?

Posted by winnerpeg on 3/1/2026 2:40:00 AM (view original):
The issue I found is starting infielders.
Canada is loaded with starting pitchers!

So, how many starting slots, and how many bench slots, in total per team?

Am still awaiting roster answers to my roster questions.
This is based on 31 slots for a total of $150 million.

What I may do is allow for like 6 position players/4 pitchers random talent minor leaguers to supplement the teams that do not have enough infielders, catchers, or quality pitching. I am in another league with a similar concept that does this and it seems like it works out well. You will likely get 3-4 minor leaguers who can legitimately contribute at the positions you need, in turn balancing it out

Posted by winnerpeg on 3/1/2026 2:40:00 AM (view original):
The issue I found is starting infielders.
Canada is loaded with starting pitchers!

So, how many starting slots, and how many bench slots, in total per team?

The standard 25-man rosters, but I may add minor leaguers to supplement for limited/missing positional choices

Posted by andricecakes on 3/1/2026 8:35:00 AM (view original):
Japan has the same problem. They have literally just one catcher, and no primary first or third basemen. Nobody is going to take that team unless it gets opened up to include American players of Japanese descent (Kurt Suzuki, for example) or combined with other Asian countries like Korea, Taiwan, or Australia.

I am open to both suggestions on this. I would allow for players of Japanese decent (ie Suzuki) or a mix of Japan/South Korea/Taiwan. In doing my research I realized there's no way anyone would take a Korea or Taiwan team because of the limited quality options, so I am completely fine if players from those countries are added to make the rosters competitive.

I subtracted my 31 players to 25.
I'm currently at $136 million for Team Canada.
Yes, that includes barely meeting the IPs minimum and easily meeting the ABs minimum.
I should probably switch one of the batters for another pitcher.

A Japan/Korea/Taiwan combination squad allows for exactly two catchers: some version of Kenji Johjima, and 2020 Tzu-Wei Lin. Not great, but at least it’s possible, lol

I think even if you allow that, a small mix of minor league players to fill out a bench will still be needed.

Sounds like the consensus is minor leaguers are necessary for some rosters. I feel like a Japan team is almost a necessity in this league, so if we need to supplement their weaker positional spots (catcher, MIF, etc.) to make sure they are playable I am okay with that

Pos	Player	B	PA/162	AB/162	HR	RBI	SB-CS	SO-BB	AB/HR	AVG	OBP	SLG	F/R	Salary
C	2006 Kenji Johjima	R	542	506	18	76	3-1	46-20	28.1	0.291	0.332	0.451	B+/A	$3,961,809
2B	2006 Tadahito Iguchi	R	627	555	18	67	11-5	110-59	30.8	0.281	0.352	0.422	A-/C	$4,349,083
3B	2007 Akinori Iwamura	L	559	491	7	34	12-8	114-58	70.1	0.285	0.359	0.411	A/D-	$3,221,663
SS	2004 Kazuo Matsui	S	509	460	7	44	14-3	97-40	65.7	0.272	0.331	0.396	C/A-	$3,324,207
OF	2004 Hideki Matsui	L	680	584	31	108	3-3	103-88	18.8	0.298	0.39	0.522	C/C	$5,209,488
OF	2024 Seiya Suzuki	R	585	512	21	73	16-6	160-63	24.4	0.283	0.366	0.482	C/B-	$4,486,901
OF	2004 Ichiro Suzuki	L	762	704	8	60	36-11	63-49	88	0.372	0.414	0.455	A/A-	$9,835,955
Util	2024 Shohei Ohtani	L	731	636	54	130	59-4	162-81	11.8	0.31	0.39	0.646	D-/D-	$7,085,632
OF	2012 Norichika Aoki	L	588	520	10	50	30-8	55-43	52	0.288	0.355	0.433	B/D	$3,813,984
OF	2006 Dave Roberts	L	567	499	2	44	49-6	61-51	249.5	0.293	0.36	0.393	A+/B-	$4,670,929

Player	T	W-L-S	IP/162	ERA	OAV	WHIP	K/9	BB/9	HR/9	K-BB	Salary
2020 Yu Darvish	R	8/3/0	205	2.01	0.21	0.96	11.01	1.66	0.59	93-14	$7,828,646
1995 Hideo Nomo	R	13-6-0	216	2.54	0.182	1.06	11.1	3.67	0.66	236-78	$8,214,512
2020 Kenta Maeda	R	6/1/00	180	2.7	0.168	0.75	10.8	1.35	1.22	80-10	$8,235,952
2022 Shohei Ohtani	R	15-9-0	166	2.33	0.203	1.01	11.87	2.39	0.76	219-44	$6,731,747
2025 Yoshinobu Yamamoto	R	12/8/000	174	2.49	0.183	0.99	10.42	3.06	0.73	201-59	$6,355,771
2023 Kodai Senga	R	12/7/000	166	2.98	0.208	1.22	10.93	4.17	0.92	202-77	$4,630,478
2024 Shota Imanaga	L	15-3-0	173	2.91	0.225	1.02	9.03	1.45	1.4	174-28	$4,713,644
2013 Koji Uehara	R	4/1/2021	74	1.09	0.13	0.57	12.23	1.09	0.61	101-9	$6,796,434

Posted by giannivanaco on 3/1/2026 9:20:00 PM (view original):

Pos	Player	B	PA/162	AB/162	HR	RBI	SB-CS	SO-BB	AB/HR	AVG	OBP	SLG	F/R	Salary
C	2006 Kenji Johjima	R	542	506	18	76	3-1	46-20	28.1	0.291	0.332	0.451	B+/A	$3,961,809
2B	2006 Tadahito Iguchi	R	627	555	18	67	11-5	110-59	30.8	0.281	0.352	0.422	A-/C	$4,349,083
3B	2007 Akinori Iwamura	L	559	491	7	34	12-8	114-58	70.1	0.285	0.359	0.411	A/D-	$3,221,663
SS	2004 Kazuo Matsui	S	509	460	7	44	14-3	97-40	65.7	0.272	0.331	0.396	C/A-	$3,324,207
OF	2004 Hideki Matsui	L	680	584	31	108	3-3	103-88	18.8	0.298	0.39	0.522	C/C	$5,209,488
OF	2024 Seiya Suzuki	R	585	512	21	73	16-6	160-63	24.4	0.283	0.366	0.482	C/B-	$4,486,901
OF	2004 Ichiro Suzuki	L	762	704	8	60	36-11	63-49	88	0.372	0.414	0.455	A/A-	$9,835,955
Util	2024 Shohei Ohtani	L	731	636	54	130	59-4	162-81	11.8	0.31	0.39	0.646	D-/D-	$7,085,632
OF	2012 Norichika Aoki	L	588	520	10	50	30-8	55-43	52	0.288	0.355	0.433	B/D	$3,813,984
OF	2006 Dave Roberts	L	567	499	2	44	49-6	61-51	249.5	0.293	0.36	0.393	A+/B-	$4,670,929

Player	T	W-L-S	IP/162	ERA	OAV	WHIP	K/9	BB/9	HR/9	K-BB	Salary
2020 Yu Darvish	R	8/3/0	205	2.01	0.21	0.96	11.01	1.66	0.59	93-14	$7,828,646
1995 Hideo Nomo	R	13-6-0	216	2.54	0.182	1.06	11.1	3.67	0.66	236-78	$8,214,512
2020 Kenta Maeda	R	6/1/00	180	2.7	0.168	0.75	10.8	1.35	1.22	80-10	$8,235,952
2022 Shohei Ohtani	R	15-9-0	166	2.33	0.203	1.01	11.87	2.39	0.76	219-44	$6,731,747
2025 Yoshinobu Yamamoto	R	12/8/000	174	2.49	0.183	0.99	10.42	3.06	0.73	201-59	$6,355,771
2023 Kodai Senga	R	12/7/000	166	2.98	0.208	1.22	10.93	4.17	0.92	202-77	$4,630,478
2024 Shota Imanaga	L	15-3-0	173	2.91	0.225	1.02	9.03	1.45	1.4	174-28	$4,713,644
2013 Koji Uehara	R	4/1/2021	74	1.09	0.13	0.57	12.23	1.09	0.61	101-9	$6,796,434

Here's a mock Japan roster. Obviously not full but basically the starter level. It would definitely need AAA supplements to be more competitive, but its not terrible. Throw in a couple Korean players and its very solid. Here were the totals:

Actual Batting Totals

6150

5467

176

686

233-52

971-552

31.1

.300

.368

.466

B/C+

$49,959,651

Actual Pitching Totals

85-38-21

1,355

2.50

.194

1.00

10.81

2.64

0.87

1306-319

$53,507,184

Still about 20M in salary space to play with too

DJT has started offering me help to try to complete my Team Canada roster.
In the process he pointed out that my SS is American. I looked farther and he was correct, so I now have no SS due to Canada seemingly not having any since after 1929.

I entered this forum because WIS offered me a single season for under $2 Can.

I'd have chosen the Dominican Republic because I was there for over half a year to escape Canada's fascism early 2022.
The good people there were great!
The bad people were worse than ours but their good ones were better than ours. lol

You can still choose a DR team if you want. It just has to be different from 2020-2025. For example, you could choose the early 2000s with Pedro and Pujols.

If you’re set on a Canada team, you can also supplement their roster with average AAA players so you can meet the position requirements. We still have spots to fill, so if you are interested I’d love to find a way to help out.