Signature Series cards - Pool of Potential Players (Hall of Famers)
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Here is a list of all actual MLB Hall of Famers who are in the game and their current best card. There are lots of possibilities for signature series cards for the upcoming program and enough of them that SDS could do a pretty hefty drop on Friday.
Obviously not those that already have 99s already but there are a lot of players on this list still deserving of better cards.
OVR Player Position Team Series 80 Bullet Rogan SP FA The Negro Leagues 80 Gary Carter C WSH Contributor 80 Turkey Stearnes CF FA The Negro Leagues 83 Buck Leonard 1B FA The Negro Leagues 84 Orlando Cepeda LF SF 2nd Half Heroes 84 Oscar Charleston CF FA The Negro Leagues 85 Babe Ruth RF NYY Jolt 85 Biz Mackey C FA The Negro Leagues 85 Craig Biggio C HOU Jolt 85 Duke Snider CF LAD Egg Hunt 85 Judy Johnson 3B FA The Negro Leagues 85 Monte Irvin LF FA The Negro Leagues 85 Paul Molitor 3B MIL Contributor 85 Richie Ashburn CF PHI All-Star 85 Rollie Fingers CP MIL Jolt 85 Vladimir Guerrero RF LAA 20th Anniversary 86 Andy Cooper SP FA The Negro Leagues 86 Bill Foster SP FA The Negro Leagues 86 Brooks Robinson 3B BAL 2nd Half Heroes 86 Ivan Rodriguez C TEX 2nd Half Heroes 86 Jeff Bagwell 1B HOU Contributor 86 Johnny Bench C CIN Jolt 86 José Méndez SP FA The Negro Leagues 86 Todd Helton 1B COL Jolt 86 Tom Glavine SP ATL Jolt 87 Alan Trammell SS DET Moonshot 87 Bruce Sutter CP CHC Cornerstone 87 Harmon Killebrew 3B MIN Moonshot 87 Leon Day SP FA The Negro Leagues 87 Mike Mussina SP NYY Last Ride 87 Rich Gossage CP SD All-Star 87 Wade Boggs 3B NYY Egg Hunt 88 Adrian Beltre 3B LAD Contributor 88 David Ortiz 1B BOS Last Ride 88 Stan Musial CF STL All-Star 88 Steve Carlton SP PHI Postseason 88 Trevor Hoffman CP SD 2nd Half Heroes 89 Don Sutton SP LAD 2nd Half Heroes 89 Gaylord Perry SP CLE All-Star 89 Jackie Robinson SS FA The Negro Leagues 89 Larry Doby CF FA The Negro Leagues 89 Ozzie Smith SS STL 2nd Half Heroes 89 Rickey Henderson LF OAK Egg Hunt 89 Satchel Paige SP FA The Negro Leagues 90 Andre Dawson CF WSH All-Star 90 Bob Gibson SP STL Standout 90 Jim Palmer SP BAL Cornerstone 90 Josh Gibson C FA The Negro Leagues 90 Martín Dihigo SP FA The Negro Leagues 90 Ralph Kiner LF PIT Cornerstone 90 Roberto Clemente RF PIT Moonshot 90 Willie Stargell LF PIT Contributor 91 Bert Blyleven SP PIT Summer 91 Catfish Hunter SP OAK Summer 91 Harold Baines DH BAL Standout 91 Honus Wagner SS PIT 20th Anniversary 91 Lou Brock LF STL Moonshot 91 Randy Johnson SP HOU 2nd Half Heroes 91 Tony Gwynn RF SD Moonshot 92 Bill Mazeroski 2B PIT Prime 92 Bob Feller SP CLE All-Star 92 Dennis Eckersley CP OAK Awards 92 Hal Newhouser SP DET Prime 92 Jim Thome 1B CWS All-Star 92 Lou Gehrig 1B NYY Contributor 92 Luis Aparicio SS BAL Prime 92 Mike Piazza C LAD All-Star 92 Robin Roberts SP PHI Prime 92 Whitey Ford SP NYY Postseason 93 Al Kaline RF DET All-Star 93 Eddie Murray 1B BAL Summer 93 Pedro Martinez SP NYM All-Star 94 Derek Jeter SS NYY All-Star 94 Hank Greenberg 1B DET All-Star 94 Jim Kaat SP CWS Prime 94 Jim Rice LF BOS Awards 94 Nolan Ryan SP LAA All-Star 94 Tony Perez 3B CIN Standout 94 Willie McCovey 1B SF 2nd Half Heroes 95 Barry Larkin SS CIN All-Star 95 Juan Marichal SP SF Cornerstone 95 Lee Smith CP STL Standout 95 Tom Seaver SP NYM 2nd Half Heroes 95 Willie Mays CF SF Summer 96 Billy Williams RF CHC 2nd Half Heroes 96 Cal Ripken Jr. 3B BAL Milestone 96 Joe Mauer C MIN Awards 97 Chipper Jones 3B ATL All-Star 97 Frank Thomas 1B CWS Contributor 97 Greg Maddux SP ATL All-Star 97 Joe Morgan 2B CIN Awards 97 Tim Raines LF WSH 2nd Half Heroes 97 Tony Oliva RF MIN Cornerstone 98 Mickey Mantle CF NYY All-Star 98 Roy Halladay SP PHI Awards 98 Warren Spahn SP ATL Awards 99 Billy Wagner CP HOU Hall of Fame 99 CC Sabathia SP NYY Hall of Fame 99 Cool Papa Bell SP FA Jin Kim 99 Cy Young SP FA Hall of Fame 99 Dave Parker RF PIT Hall of Fame 99 Richard Allen 3B PHI Hall of Fame 99 Edgar Martinez 3B SEA Awards 99 George Brett 3B KC Hall of Fame 99 Gil Hodges 1B LAD Hall of Fame 99 Ken Griffey Jr. CF SEA Spotlight 99 Larry Walker RF WSH Awards 99 Robin Yount SS MIL Prime 99 Rod Carew 2B MIN Hall of Fame 99 Ryne Sandberg 2B CHC Hall of Fame 99 Scott Rolen 3B PHI Awards 99 Ted Simmons C STL Hall of Fame 99 Ted Williams LF BOS Hall of Fame -
I am not enthusiastic for this program, if there wasnt a deluxe I would be, but we just got new threads they won't replace it this quickly, so the program will be the same 3-5 players
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@PAinPA_PSN said in Signature Series cards - Pool of Potential Players (Hall of Famers):
I am not enthusiastic for this program, if there wasnt a deluxe I would be, but we just got new threads they won't replace it this quickly, so the program will be the same 3-5 players
There is a miniseason though, so that will be 3-4 cards
They could do something like the draft pack too, which is unlikely.
Programs should always be expected to be terrible though, anything more than 2 cards is SDS feeling super generous. Like how they used milestone series for a two card program. Or OF assist. More cards is almost universally better. A 10 card program with 2 god squad cards is far better than a 2 card program with 2 god squad cards, and honestly 10 cards should be the minimum unless its something like the Ryno, Sosa, or Kershaw programs.
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With two months left and finest, playoff and World Series releases/programs upcoming they really need to start giving deserving guys cards. We have less than 8 weeks until the playoffs start.
I'll only speak for the Cardinals but you can probably do this exercise with every team...
We have a 91 Lou Brock whose card has awful base stealing stats.
We have 2 time Cy young winner Bob Gibson with a 90 overall card
13 time Gold Glove winner Ozzie Smith's best card as a 89 overall with only 87 fielding
3 time MVP and 7 Time Batting champ Stan Musial only has an 88 OVR cardBeyond the Hall of famers - Matt Holliday has an 85 Oakland card. I was hoping for a good Cardinals version this year because we did not get one last year. Paul Goldschmidt has never gotten an MVP card for his MVP year (to be fair, they are really stingy with MVP cards for current players - not just Goldschmidt)
There are so many options for so many teams and the time is ticking away until the World Series will be over, the content slows down and many players take a hiatus until the next edition.
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@Dolenz_PSN
This is embarrassing
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The Mets have two Hall of Fame catchers that are legends in game.
One of those legends has only a single lvl 80 gold card for a different team.
The Mets theme team catcher is a day 1 gold card.
Its not rocket science here SDS....
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@Teak2112_MLBTS
Don't forget that Piazza didn't even get a card over 90 overall last year. Yup, the greatest hitting catcher of all-time got so much as a 90 last year. Yup, SDS you mentally restarted fools -
said in Signature Series cards - Pool of Potential Players (Hall of Famers):
We have a 91 Lou Brock whose card has awful base stealing stats.
I just looked there and are 234 players, including 2 catchers and 8 1B, in the game with a better steal rating than Lou Brock.
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At least we got a Josh Naylor card with 99 Steal ability and 30 speed...Gotta find a way to make a garbage card 97 overall...
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@GixxerRyder750_PSN said in Signature Series cards - Pool of Potential Players (Hall of Famers):
At least we got a Josh Naylor card with 99 Steal ability and 30 speed...Gotta find a way to make a garbage card 97 overall...
That actually seems accurate.
According to Baseball Savant's Statcast page Josh Naylor ranks 519th out of 533 players in sprint speed. That translates into bad speed score. He is objectively slow. But he has stolen 11 bases and been caught 0 times which, I guess, translates into 99 Steal and 99 BR AGG. Granted that does not help him actually steal bases in the game.
He's a gold player who got a high diamond simply because he got traded so I would consider it lucky that he has a 98 card at all. They bumped his live card stats:
Con R 28 points
Con L 48 points
POW R 21 points
Pow L 25 Points
Vis 13 points
Disc 24 points
Clt 24 Points
Spd 9 points
Stl 71 points
BR Agg 69 pointsAccording to my app Seattle has the best theme team Lineup in the game. Shoot according to my Theme Team Squad builder he is a bench bat with 99 Edgar Martinez at 1st, 99 Eugenio Suárez at 3B and 98 Kyle Seager as the DH
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@Dolenz_PSN So Greg Maddux should have 99 Steal as well. LOL
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I am 3-3 with stolen bases with Naylor. i wont run him against a human or a CPU with pop time though.
The 99 steal does help him steal bases actually, you will need to lead with him and a 99 steal makes him unlikely to be picked off.
The Naylor card is exactly what SDS should be doing with cards like this. Not every card needs to be god squad. I hate complaints like this as they are detrimental to the game if SDS listens to them, just like all the 'this guy already has a card!' complaints. Complaints like this are why we get 2 card programs.
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@Dolenz_PSN said in Signature Series cards - Pool of Potential Players (Hall of Famers):
Granted that does not help him actually steal bases in the game.
I actually stole a base with him in a CQ game. It was hilarious - he got a HUGE jump.
