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I am running V1.37 and after about 130 games into my association I noticed the Cubs roster. 16 position players and 9 pitchers. How does this happen? Isn't there AI to have at least 10 pitchers?? If not, shouldn't ther be?

Why should there be a rule disallowing less than 10 pitchers?
 
There's no rule in baseball that says a team must have 10 pitchers, there's only a rule that you can't have more than 25 total players (at least prior to September roster expansion).
 
Teams simply carry 10 or more pitchers (at least these days) because it makes sense, and to have less than 10 would make most teams (at least in the modern era) short-handed due to the way pitchers are used.  The AI in this game may have considered that it had 4 relievers that could cover all of the pitching duties that the starters were not able to cover.
 
If a team had 4 outstanding relievers (and 5 starters)--or even better, a 4-man rotation and 5 quality relievers--there's nothing to stop them from then carrying 16 postition players if they thought such an arrangement was more beneficial to their team.
 
Perhaps the AI is programmed to think the same way in some instances.

In the modern era of baseball how often do you see teams carry less then 10 pitchers??