What If
Baseball history's great what-ifs, re-simmed as full careers on the Legends Deck franchise engine: real rosters for every backdrop season, era-relative ratings, trades, injuries, aging and playoffs included. Every number on these pages comes from a committed simulation receipt: methodology and honest caveats ship with each one.
What if Babe Ruth joined the 2004 Yankees?
Babe Ruth to the NYY, 2004–2015. 12 simmed seasons: 1944 G, 449 HR, .330 AVG.
Cross-era transplant, fantasy-graded: dominance carries over, the absolute era does not.
What if Babe Ruth played for the St. Louis Cardinals?
Babe Ruth to the STL, 1920–1934. 15 simmed seasons: 2430 G, 604 HR, .352 AVG.
Era-accurate backdrop: the real rosters of each season, re-rated era-relative.
How it works: each run anchors the subject on his last real pre-divergence season, rebuilds the destination league from real Lahman rosters every year, and lets the franchise engine play it out: development, injuries, CPU trades, playoffs. Sim results are receipts, not promises: the engine's modern outcome-mix calibration and its home-run ceiling are flagged on every article.