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@bjd10048_MLBTS I can't believe they forgot to get your input before choosing these.
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Three great choices! Huge W!
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Google him, learn the history.
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I’d rather Piazza than Hodges. Pretty disappointing for non Dodgers fans.
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@GoozeFn_PSN said in Live Series Collections - L !!!:
I’d rather Piazza than Hodges. Pretty disappointing for non Dodgers fans.
I saw Piazza in the trailer and i thought they were taking my suggestion by giving us Clemens/Piazza
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L? Hahahahah
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Hodges deserves a card.... not a 99 likely going to be one of the best cards in the game. He is not anywhere near comparable to Roger Clemmons. We are talking about a guy who never hit over .300, averaged 29 home runs during his career with a WAR of 43..... Oh you'd think it must be because he played in 1920s or the deadball era... nope played until 1963.
Beltran and Clemens I love and will be doing the collection asap!
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@bjd10048_MLBTS said in Live Series Collections - lowercase l / N for neutral.:
Hodges deserves a card.... not a 99 likely going to be one of the best cards in the game. He is not anywhere near comparable to Roger Clemmons. We are talking about a guy who never hit over .300, averaged 29 home runs during his career with a WAR of 43..... Oh you'd think it must be because he played in 1920s or the deadball era... nope played until 1963.
Beltran and Clemens I love and will be doing the collection asap!
Fair points on Hodges. For some reason I thought he was a catcher. When I found out he was a first baseman I was underwhelmed.
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@bjd10048_MLBTS It’s just a weird choice. Not many people outside of Dodgers fans are even going to know who he is. I guess you gotta appease one of the biggest fan bases. Should have been Piazza IMO.
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I think what you guys are ignoring in this years game is the fact that defense is supposed to matter. Not everyone is gonna have 125 across the board. Hodges had a career fielding % of .992, he finished top 20 in MVP votes 7 years in a row, 8 times total, 8 time AS which is kinda big considering the guys he was playing with, and a few gold gloves.
I cant help but wonder...everyone wants Ichiro in the game. Exactly what do you think his hitting attributes will be? 125 L/R contact, 28-34 Power?
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@GoozeFn_PSN said in Live Series Collections - lowercase l / N for neutral.:
@bjd10048_MLBTS It’s just a weird choice. Not many people outside of Dodgers fans are even going to know who he is. I guess you gotta appease one of the biggest fan bases. Should have been Piazza IMO.
First it's the free agents and now it's the legends(snort)
I wonder how much deferred salary it took for this(and what the aav is -
@PAinPA_PSN No idea what you’re even talking about here.
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@Easy_Duhz_It__PSN Hodges plays first base, the least important position for defense and a notoriously crowded position
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@Easy_Duhz_It__PSN said in Live Series Collections - lowercase l / N for neutral.:
I cant help but wonder...everyone wants Ichiro in the game. Exactly what do you think his hitting attributes will be? 125 L/R contact, 28-34 Power?
I have wondered the same thing. Gwynn is a contact hitting legend but nobody uses him unless they artificially inflate his power.
Nobody uses high contact hitters with low power.
That said, he is a HOF so it would be cool to have him in the game, even if very few use him
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@bjd10048_MLBTS said in Live Series Collections - lowercase l / N for neutral.:
@Easy_Duhz_It__PSN Hodges plays first base, the least important position for defense and a notoriously crowded position
Be that as it may, i'd rather have Mark Teixiera as my everyday first baseman over David Ortiz.
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@Dolenz64_XBL These would be great early 99’s. They always seem to give them to us late when no one uses them though.
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@GoozeFn_PSN said in Live Series Collections - lowercase l / N for neutral.:
@bjd10048_MLBTS It’s just a weird choice. Not many people outside of Dodgers fans are even going to know who he is. I guess you gotta appease one of the biggest fan bases. Should have been Piazza IMO.
He was also the manager of one of the most famous teams in history (69 Mets), so two big fan bases know him. I do agree hes a weird choice for an NL collection.
Piazza's only card was a collection card last year, that would have been dirty to do that
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@GoozeFn_PSN said in Live Series Collections - lowercase l / N for neutral.:
@PAinPA_PSN No idea what you’re even talking about here.
It's a joke on the dodgers signing all the free agents and the numbers of players and amounts of deferred salaries they are carrying
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@Teak2112_MLBTS Gil Hodges was considered to be the best "First Basemen of the 1950's," and has numbers comparable to Fred McGriff season-by-season, but has less overall career numbers due to being in World War II and being wounded in that war. In addition, he was a utility player playing sparingly for the Brooklyn Dodgers playing catcher, third base, the outfield, and a little bit of first base, before staying and starting at first in 1949. After that he produce those awesome seasons, and won two World Series for the Brooklyn Dodgers in 1955, and after they moved to Los Angeles, those same Dodgers in 1959. He only started to really decline for the Dodgers in 1961, was an '"Original Met,'" in 1962, and was a Washington Senator in 1963 and part of 1964; before the Senators fired their manager and hired Hodges, whereupon, he subsquently retired as a player. He managed the Senators for four seasons before being traded to the Mets for a prospect in the middle of the 1968 season. Lastly, he managed those '"Miracle Mets'" in 1969 to a World Series Championship, and managed that team for two more full seasons till he died in the middle of the 1972 season, in what would of been his third full year, of a heart attack at age forty-seven. He is definitely worth a Live Series Card at least, and is deserving of the N.L. Card prize that SDS bestowed upon him. Those people that think he is not worthy, don't know about history and/or flunked history.
