MLB the RHH Show ‘26
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@GoozeFn_PSN yes Tulos defence makes him more valuable I agree. But miggy is viable at 3b and the best bat in the game.
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@GoozeFn_PSN can’t say I agree with this one tho Pedroia is an Absolute stud hitting .330 for me bats leadoff has best defence in the game next to tulo has sneaky pop he definitely belongs near that list.
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@Onix_Savage22_PSN I agree Cabrera is the best offensive player, but Tulo’s defense easily makes up the difference and then some. I don’t see it with Pedroia. The power is unplayable to me. There are a ton of cards that are far better, Tatis, Trout even Ketel at 2B. Defense at 2B is not as important.
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I have about 20 Ish at bats with the 95 miggy and have him parallel up to a 98 and so far I’m not really impressed by the swing. I’m not saying it’s necessarily bad but I would say tulo low and Pujols are both better when you factor in attributes defense
Maggie has felt a tad slow and not really generating the power I was hoping for
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@bjd10048_MLBTS I’m loving the swing and I have the 99.
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@bjd10048_MLBTS Pujols as a hitter is a argument tulo I struggled with out the gate he’s redeemed himself tho it’s picking hairs between the 3 at the plate for me they all sit around .300 defence yes tulo and Pujols are better.
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@GoozeFn_PSN tatis and trout are nuts I have trout in outfield rn with defence and speed boost hitting .400 all on hof games. as a Sox fan I maybe a bit bias for Dustin but I’ve been riding with Dustin I haven’t even tried Marte it ain’t broke I ain’t gonna fix it.
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@Onix_Savage22_PSN Everyone’s different, but there are a ton of guys I’d rather use. If I’m gonna use a low power guy there, it’s Figgins.
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@GoozeFn_PSN he’s my left fielder idk I may try Marte at some point but I’m on a streak of winning 4 out of 5 and hit 855 rating in on my biggest heater of the year scared to switch anything rn.
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You’re not smarter than anyone.
Yes he is.
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@Onix_Savage22_PSN Ketel can depend on inside edge, but it’s usually good.
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@GoozeFn_PSN have u tried that Tommy edman he looks good? I want biggio he’s just a lot.
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@Onix_Savage22_PSN No, too expensive to waste on a headliner and the power vs right is awful. Same with Beltran.
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@GoozeFn_PSN Beltran is amazing he’s maybe my best hitter atm. He’s grabs xbh’s too he’s hitting like .380 I like his defence too I was running pca before him was hard to say goodbye to pca.
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@Onix_Savage22_PSN Way too many balls dying at the warning track with Beltran for me.
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@GoozeFn_PSN yeah idk how to fix that I’ve loved him maybe try power mod.
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@Onix_Savage22_PSN Yeah, even with power mod I don’t want to use him against righties.
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@Dolenz_PSN I’m always happy to see that there are still things humans are better at than computers. Cabrera is more valuable than Pujols and Pedroia doesn’t belong anywhere near this list.
To each their own. I never make claims that my program is a benchmark any person should use when constructing their squads. It is simply doing math. It is a reporting tool and, while I used AI to program it, it does not even try and use AI to evaluate the cards . It can't take into account each person's personal preferences or what attributes they value most at each position. It doesn't try to quantify a batters swing or whether they bat lefty, righty or switch. I realize these things are important to players but I choose not to try and quantify them.
Pujols vs Cabrera
You can see beneath the card image that the program considers Cabrera the better offensive player (110.6 to 105.78). But when you then expand it to include Fielding and Speed it gives Pujols a slight lead (96.05 to 95.97). It is a very negligible amount though (.08) and essentially is a dead heat.
Pedroia gets a big overall boost from his defense although he also has very good Contact and CLT. He has little power so I understand why people would not use him. It's obvious you prefer power at the position. Nothing wrong with that.
But again the program is just doing math.
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@Dolenz_PSN To be clear, I enjoy these posts from your program. I think defense matters, but it depends on the position. Good defense is most important at SS and OF IMO. Not sure if you have the ability to give it weight in that way.
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@Dolenz_PSN To be clear, I enjoy these posts from your program. I think defense matters, but it depends on the position. Good defense is most important at SS and OF IMO. Not sure if you have the ability to give it weight in that way.
I agree that defense matters more for the positions up the middle but I just did not want to try to dive into the quagmire to try and give them all some set value. So right now it evaluates every position the same way.
I am thinking about releasing the program (give people a chance to download and run it locally) after we get our first big roster update and I redesign the screens for that. After these posts I thought that what the program may be able to pull off would be a settings page where users could override the default weightings for Meta, Offensive Meta and Pitching Meta and set up their own weighting.
I still don't know if I would want to do it by position though as then you have to worry about secondary positions also. I already have some complexity built into the Squad Generator where it will frequently put guys in their secondary positions.
The whole Meta scores calculations in my program was originally designed just as a way for me to differentiate between the vast gulf we see between early 99s and late 99s as we progress through the year.
