Team Affinity Card reveals for Aug 29th
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How could they screw up and still not give teams with only hitting captains another position player? It’s insanity
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I am underwhelmed by these choices, although perhaps these are filling in theme team gaps? I doubt SDS considers that though. Idf they do, incoming 99 McNeil for the Mets.
I assume this is when they finally give Peterson his long overdue card for his 2024-2025 performance
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@Dolenz_PSN the lack of a pitching captain should be a fireable offense for content director at SDS.
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Hoping for Trevor Hoffman 99.
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@Teak2112_MLBTS said in Team Affinity Card reveals for Aug 29th:
I am underwhelmed by these choices, although perhaps these are filling in theme team gaps? I doubt SDS considers that though. Idf they do, incoming 99 McNeil for the Mets.
I assume this is when they finally give Peterson his long overdue card for his 2024-2025 performance
That got me curious - It is only an upgrade to the theme team in 4 of the 9 teams revealed so far
Blue Jays - Shawn Green - RF
- 99 George Springer
- 99 Jose Bautista
Yankees - Derek Jeter - SS
- 99 Anthony Volpe
Red Sox - Marcelo Mayer - 3B
- 99 Wade Boggs
Rays - Chandler Simpson - CF
- 96 Brendan Summerhill
Guardians - Travis Bazzana - 2B
- 99 Jason Kipnis
Royals - Jac Caglianone - RF
- 97 Randal Grichuk
Twins - Walker Jenkins - CF
- 99 Torii Hunter
- 98 Byron Buxton
Tigers - Kevin McGonigle - SS
- 93 Willi Castro
White Sox - Kyle Teel - C
- 91 Kyle Teel
Toronto's Biggest need was a LF to replace 89 Santander
Yankees don't really have a weakness.
Red Sox theme team still has 87 Kristian Campbell as their 2B
Rays have an 83 Catcher and a 86 LF
Guardians still have 88 Manzardo at 1B
Royals still have 76 live series Kyle Isbel at CF
Twins have 91 Bader in LF
Tigers have a 84 Dingler at C
White sox has 83 Braden Montgomery in RF -
Okay, all of this talk made me decide to try and pull Captain info into my App so I can report on it as well. It could be tricky because it is a separate API
EDIT: I guess I won't do that as the Captains API is not showing any data
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@LukeTheDuke1515_MLBTS said in Team Affinity Card reveals for Aug 29th:
How could they screw up and still not give teams with only hitting captains another position player? It’s insanity
It's just downright lazy to be honest.
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I am not sure I would call it lazy. Poor planning maybe but I think that it probably takes more effort to not have both hitting and pitching captains for every team. Because now they have to keep track of who has what and maintain two different sets of boosts based on whether a team has both captains.
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@Dolenz_PSN said in Team Affinity Card reveals for Aug 29th:
I am not sure I would call it lazy. Poor planning maybe but I think that it probably takes more effort to not have both hitting and pitching captains for every team. Because now they have to keep track of who has what and maintain two different sets of boosts based on whether a team has both captains.
Ok fair enough, maybe lazy was a bit harsh, just frustrated is all.
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The AL East had me a little excited until the AL Central was revealed.
To me, this looks like SDS saw us complaining about TA and threw together a program as quickly as possible without any real plan.
I'll hold my judgement until the other divisions are released, but so far I'm a little concerned.
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I know that every man garbage is an another man's treasure, but I sure won't lose time grinding hard to get the AL Central Neon cards...
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@Dolenz_PSN pretty sure Isbel is a CF, not a catcher. Autocorrect?
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@Victoryphoenix_MLBTS Your post is a reminder that for whatever reason the show year after year neglects 1990’s NL players…Sabo & Rijo as you mentioned, But also isn’t it weird that they have never brought the Pirates outfield into the game? Andy Van Slyke, Bobby Bonilla, Barry Bonds?
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@yankblan_PSN said in Team Affinity Card reveals for Aug 29th:
@Dolenz_PSN pretty sure Isbel is a CF, not a catcher. Autocorrect?
You are correct. It was a mistake on my part. Can't even blame autocorrect.
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@Dolenz_PSN well, I know there’s an OF on the Royals with C secondary, but 99.9% sure it wasn’t Isbel!
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I have a problem with Bazzana, Jenkins and McGonigle. We can't find anyone in the Guardians, Twins, or Tigers franchise history would could be TA rewards? We have to resort to prospects with 0% Major League experience?!?
Doby for the Guardians
Killebrew for the Twins
Newhouser for the TigersDone.
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@SaveFarris_PSN Agreed. Of course McConigle should be better at this stage than Trammell. It only makes sense. Will probably have better stats than Judge while they are at it.
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Its weird. We know the next TA round will be Finest. The prior was All star.
It is extremely unlikely we see anything else in TA, so why isn't this round all legends?
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@Dolenz_PSN Bring on Lance Parrish or Bill Freehan for the Tigers!
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@Teak2112_MLBTS said in Team Affinity Card reveals for Aug 29th:
Its weird. We know the next TA round will be Finest. The prior was All star.
It is extremely unlikely we see anything else in TA, so why isn't this round all legends?
What makes you think finest will be nothing more than a voucher exchange like all-star was with no real incentive to use most of the cards?
