SDS Is Tone Deaf And/Or Trolling (Captain Blizzard)
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Elly should have gotten a Finest card, not a boring looking captain card. I would rather they release the 50+ missing Finest cards than repeats of prior year's captain ideas. I guarantee drop 2 or 3 will have a high durability Lou Gehrig captain...
If captains return in 2025 I hope they can make the cards not be such an eyesore in your lineup.
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I agree he was a no-brainer Finest card.
But since they had no brains, now we just want any 99 Elly, regardless of card art.
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Did Elly even win any awards? Lindor I'm pretty sure got the silver slugger. Maybe that program can give him a card for leading the league in SBs or something.
Piazza is still the most baffling one. People raved about his new swing but by the time 99% of people got him no one was using a 90 overall...
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Elly didnt do a whole lot this year other than lead the league in Steals (and caught stealing.....and strikeouts). My guess is that he'll be a speed captain (90+ speed) in the second or 3rd captain drop or he'll be in the milestone program.
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Maybe their saving his card until later because he might be the 25 cover athlete?
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@Easy_Duhz_It__PSN said in SDS Is Tone Deaf And/Or Trolling (Captain Blizzard):
Elly didnt do a whole lot this year other than lead the league in Steals (and caught stealing.....and strikeouts). My guess is that he'll be a speed captain (90+ speed) in the second or 3rd captain drop or he'll be in the milestone program.
Elly was 9th in the entire league in WAR. He was at 6.4 and they chose Spencer Steer for Finest who had a WAR of 1.3.
I think that's pretty good and certainly not "didn't do a whole lot this year".
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maybe they already know elly is the cover athlete for next year and plan to drop a 99 special card like they did for vlad at the end of last year. They obviously lean towards the younger players for cover athletes
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Maybe Cal gets a gold glove card in the awards program? Its all wishful thinking at this point, its unlikely we get anything besides 4 more captains and 2-3 awards cards.
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@ref479ode_PSN said in SDS Is Tone Deaf And/Or Trolling (Captain Blizzard):
maybe they already know elly is the cover athlete for next year and plan to drop a 99 special card like they did for vlad at the end of last year. They obviously lean towards the younger players for cover athletes
That sounds reasonable. Too bad no one will care that late in the cycle.
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@dbub_PSN said in SDS Is Tone Deaf And/Or Trolling (Captain Blizzard):
@Easy_Duhz_It__PSN said in SDS Is Tone Deaf And/Or Trolling (Captain Blizzard):
Elly didnt do a whole lot this year other than lead the league in Steals (and caught stealing.....and strikeouts). My guess is that he'll be a speed captain (90+ speed) in the second or 3rd captain drop or he'll be in the milestone program.
Elly was 9th in the entire league in WAR. He was at 6.4 and they chose Spencer Steer for Finest who had a WAR of 1.3.
I think that's pretty good and certainly not "didn't do a whole lot this year".
Yeah i definitely dont gaf about WAR. WAR is not the end all, be all. Its literally a made up number of wins he added to the team over a worse player at the same position. BFD. Also, not sure what list you're looking at but ESPN has him at 22nd. I guess its not an exact science...
https://www.espn.com/mlb/war/leaders/_/type/offensive/year/2024
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The guy also finished top 10 in MVP voting and is super popular.
They keep giving Brian Reynolds a 99 every year because he is popular.
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@Easy_Duhz_It__PSN said in SDS Is Tone Deaf And/Or Trolling (Captain Blizzard):
@dbub_PSN said in SDS Is Tone Deaf And/Or Trolling (Captain Blizzard):
@Easy_Duhz_It__PSN said in SDS Is Tone Deaf And/Or Trolling (Captain Blizzard):
Elly didnt do a whole lot this year other than lead the league in Steals (and caught stealing.....and strikeouts). My guess is that he'll be a speed captain (90+ speed) in the second or 3rd captain drop or he'll be in the milestone program.
Elly was 9th in the entire league in WAR. He was at 6.4 and they chose Spencer Steer for Finest who had a WAR of 1.3.
I think that's pretty good and certainly not "didn't do a whole lot this year".
Yeah i definitely dont gaf about WAR. WAR is not the end all, be all. Its literally a made up number of wins he added to the team over a worse player at the same position. BFD. Also, not sure what list you're looking at but ESPN has him at 22nd. I guess its not an exact science...
https://www.espn.com/mlb/war/leaders/_/type/offensive/year/2024
I love when people say that WAR isn't important and then give exactly ZERO alternatives. I'll wait.
And he is 9th on Fangraphs. Don't care about ESPN.
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@Easy_Duhz_It__PSN I think he'll get the cover card, like Vladdy got last year. The time is now tho for sure.
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WAR is imperfect but yeah saying I don’t GAF about it doesn’t nullify its meaning.
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@dbub_PSN said in SDS Is Tone Deaf And/Or Trolling (Captain Blizzard):
I love when people say that WAR isn't important and then give exactly ZERO alternatives. I'll wait.
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There are other Captain Blizzard drops coming, aren't there?
