TA 5 Reveals
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My guess is still Soto for reward. They could give the Nats finest to Bell maybe.
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@dbub_psn said in TA 5 Reveals:
With Tatis out of the mix I'm predicting Finest Collection reward will definitely be Trout.
Since he obviously doesn't deserve the Angels' Finest, he makes the most sense as the overall reward.
Every other current star either already has a high diamond or is likely to be their team's Finest.
Yes that makes all the sense in the world that Trout, who only played in 36 games this year, would be the collection reward. Finest is based on the season that an individual had not on a projected season. So why on earth would Trout get a finest card this year?
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What are secret 1 and secret 2 I wonder.
Check out the show website under TA5 reveals they have secret 1 and secret 2 with 10 slots under each....hmmmm
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I hope to see a Bryan Reynolds finest
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@jeezy-e_psn said in TA 5 Reveals:
I hope to see a Bryan Reynolds finest
Yes, with 99 Yoshitomo Tsutsugo being the final collection reward.
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@dewrock_psn said in TA 5 Reveals:
Where does it say anything in that link about Fernando Tatis Jr?
Ckick on reveled under the link that the OP shared.
I really like these finest cards this year and i'm excited for TA5, especially if they continue to be diffrent players then were sellected for the all star game.
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I have to say it again but the card art on these blow away the old finest cards.
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@skarmaen_psn said in TA 5 Reveals:
I think they should just give the best players finest cards and not worry at all about how many diamonds they might already have.
Salvador Perez should be the KC finest, Mullins the BAL finest, etc. I don't care if they'll have 5 cards. It's mid-November, the MLB season is over and I'd much rather just have the best of the best.
I agree... Finest should be best player performance on each team in 2021.
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With Alonso, DeGrom, Baez and Lindor all having 99's already, who gets the Met's Finest? Maybe Nimmo?
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@whiplash0013_psn said in TA 5 Reveals:
With Alonso, DeGrom, Baez and Lindor all having 99's already, who gets the Met's Finest? Maybe Nimmo?
Conforto?
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@jeezy-e_psn said in TA 5 Reveals:
@whiplash0013_psn said in TA 5 Reveals:
With Alonso, DeGrom, Baez and Lindor all having 99's already, who gets the Met's Finest? Maybe Nimmo?
Conforto?
No it def won’t be him… Nimmo or Stroman
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@sevisonjn_psn said in TA 5 Reveals:
@skarmaen_psn said in TA 5 Reveals:
I think they should just give the best players finest cards and not worry at all about how many diamonds they might already have.
Salvador Perez should be the KC finest, Mullins the BAL finest, etc. I don't care if they'll have 5 cards. It's mid-November, the MLB season is over and I'd much rather just have the best of the best.
I agree... Finest should be best player performance on each team in 2021.
The best player performance on the Royals was Nicky Lopez though, not Perez.
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@jogger171717_psn said in TA 5 Reveals:
@sevisonjn_psn said in TA 5 Reveals:
@skarmaen_psn said in TA 5 Reveals:
I think they should just give the best players finest cards and not worry at all about how many diamonds they might already have.
Salvador Perez should be the KC finest, Mullins the BAL finest, etc. I don't care if they'll have 5 cards. It's mid-November, the MLB season is over and I'd much rather just have the best of the best.
I agree... Finest should be best player performance on each team in 2021.
The best player performance on the Royals was Nicky Lopez though, not Perez.
I can’t tell if you are kidding, but not sure how you say a guy with 150 hits, 2 homers and a .300 averages is better than a catcher who hits over .279 and sets a catcher record with 48 homers.
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@nymets1987_psn said in TA 5 Reveals:
@jeezy-e_psn said in TA 5 Reveals:
@whiplash0013_psn said in TA 5 Reveals:
With Alonso, DeGrom, Baez and Lindor all having 99's already, who gets the Met's Finest? Maybe Nimmo?
Conforto?
No it def won’t be him… Nimmo or Stroman
Loup
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@stewart1465_psn said in TA 5 Reveals:
@nymets1987_psn said in TA 5 Reveals:
@jeezy-e_psn said in TA 5 Reveals:
@whiplash0013_psn said in TA 5 Reveals:
With Alonso, DeGrom, Baez and Lindor all having 99's already, who gets the Met's Finest? Maybe Nimmo?
Conforto?
No it def won’t be him… Nimmo or Stroman
Loup
Maybe I guess ... that’s a third option if they go RP
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@oreorockstar_psn said in TA 5 Reveals:
@jogger171717_psn said in TA 5 Reveals:
@sevisonjn_psn said in TA 5 Reveals:
@skarmaen_psn said in TA 5 Reveals:
I think they should just give the best players finest cards and not worry at all about how many diamonds they might already have.
Salvador Perez should be the KC finest, Mullins the BAL finest, etc. I don't care if they'll have 5 cards. It's mid-November, the MLB season is over and I'd much rather just have the best of the best.
I agree... Finest should be best player performance on each team in 2021.
The best player performance on the Royals was Nicky Lopez though, not Perez.
I can’t tell if you are kidding, but not sure how you say a guy with 150 hits, 2 homers and a .300 averages is better than a catcher who hits over .279 and sets a catcher record with 48 homers.
Of course Perez was better offensively, but as a whole he was a worse player.
Lopez was an entire win better than Perez, 4.4 fWAR vs 3.4 fWAR.
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@poksey_mlbts said in TA 5 Reveals:
Yep. There goes the favorite guess for Finest collection reward.
Maybe it's Machado?
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@jogger171717_psn said in TA 5 Reveals:
@oreorockstar_psn said in TA 5 Reveals:
@jogger171717_psn said in TA 5 Reveals:
@sevisonjn_psn said in TA 5 Reveals:
@skarmaen_psn said in TA 5 Reveals:
I think they should just give the best players finest cards and not worry at all about how many diamonds they might already have.
Salvador Perez should be the KC finest, Mullins the BAL finest, etc. I don't care if they'll have 5 cards. It's mid-November, the MLB season is over and I'd much rather just have the best of the best.
I agree... Finest should be best player performance on each team in 2021.
The best player performance on the Royals was Nicky Lopez though, not Perez.
I can’t tell if you are kidding, but not sure how you say a guy with 150 hits, 2 homers and a .300 averages is better than a catcher who hits over .279 and sets a catcher record with 48 homers.
Of course Perez was better offensively, but as a whole he was a worse player.
Lopez was an entire win better than Perez, 4.4 fWAR vs 3.4 fWAR.
This is where fWAR completely loses me. In no way shape or form was Nicky Lopez better or more important than Salvador Perez. You mentioned in another thread that Salvy had a bad defensive year....so how was he nominated as a finalist for the gold glove? I know gold gloves aren't a perfect measure but if we think those are skewed how do we know fWAR is whatever they tell us?
No I'm not getting all conspiracy theory here. It just makes absolutely no sense that a player with absolutely no run production (the way you win games) is better than the best run producer in the league.
Besides, according to Baseball reference Salvy was a 5.3 and Lopez was a 4.4. Why would they have a different WAR figure? And if they do, who is the governing body that has deemed fangraphs the right WAR and baseball Reference the inferior WAR.
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@ericulous1_psn said in TA 5 Reveals:
@jogger171717_psn said in TA 5 Reveals:
@oreorockstar_psn said in TA 5 Reveals:
@jogger171717_psn said in TA 5 Reveals:
@sevisonjn_psn said in TA 5 Reveals:
@skarmaen_psn said in TA 5 Reveals:
I think they should just give the best players finest cards and not worry at all about how many diamonds they might already have.
Salvador Perez should be the KC finest, Mullins the BAL finest, etc. I don't care if they'll have 5 cards. It's mid-November, the MLB season is over and I'd much rather just have the best of the best.
I agree... Finest should be best player performance on each team in 2021.
The best player performance on the Royals was Nicky Lopez though, not Perez.
I can’t tell if you are kidding, but not sure how you say a guy with 150 hits, 2 homers and a .300 averages is better than a catcher who hits over .279 and sets a catcher record with 48 homers.
Of course Perez was better offensively, but as a whole he was a worse player.
Lopez was an entire win better than Perez, 4.4 fWAR vs 3.4 fWAR.
This is where fWAR completely loses me. In no way shape or form was Nicky Lopez better or more important than Salvador Perez. You mentioned in another thread that Salvy had a bad defensive year....so how was he nominated as a finalist for the gold glove? I know gold gloves aren't a perfect measure but if we think those are skewed how do we know fWAR is whatever they tell us?
No I'm not getting all conspiracy theory here. It just makes absolutely no sense that a player with absolutely no run production (the way you win games) is better than the best run producer in the league.
Besides, according to Baseball reference Salvy was a 5.3 and Lopez was a 4.4. Why would they have a different WAR figure? And if they do, who is the governing body that has deemed fangraphs the right WAR and baseball Reference the inferior WAR.
Among catchers with at least 300 PA (30 total catchers), Perez was the worst defensively by Fangraphs’ Def. He was nominated for a gold glove because the award is as much of a popularity contest as it is an award for the best defensive player. Playing great defense with around average hitting can provide just as much value as great offense with terrible defense. You should know this, being a Cardinals/Molina fan. There’s a ton of small differences between the bWAR and fWAR formulas, so there’s always going to be cases where guys have a noticeable gap between the two. I’ll fully admit that I don’t know all the tiny nuanced details of each one. Generally speaking, fWAR is considered the better and more accurate formula for position players at least, and MLB itself seems to agree as well with them proposing to officially use fWAR as the basis for determining arbitration salaries.
