MLB Call up.
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Has anyone been called up earlier than the end of July/start of August?
I've played through 3 careers and it is always the same thing. AAA after the AA all-star game and MLB a few weeks later.
I did a little experiment. I created a power-hitting 1B, set the difficulty to 'cheese' and started swinging for the fences. By the AA all-star game I was hitting .800 with 200+ HRs and 400+ RBIs ... I still got called up at the exact same times.
I remember the game used to start you in June right after the draft (unless I'm not remembering correctly), but since they are starting you at the beginning of the year, why not go to spring training and get a shot to make the team from there?
Seems crazy for any team to allow an absolute phenom waste away in the minors for so long.
... Unless they were trying to cheese an extra year out of his rookie contract.
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Promotion to each level is totally scripted. On 21 I purposely played on rookie just to see if I could make it faster, but you could hit a homer in every at bat and still take 1 and a half years to get called up.
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@darkblue1876_PSN said in MLB Call up.:
Promotion to each level is totally scripted. On 21 I purposely played on rookie just to see if I could make it faster, but you could hit a homer in every at bat and still take 1 and a half years to get called up.
21 needed a full year and a half for the call-up? My 21 pitcher was in the majors Aug 1...
And I won't say that promotions up are "scripted". They are dependent on OVR, and what I consider more appropriately "gated" behind certain dates - AA to AAA around the ASG, AAA to MLB early-ish August.
For example, all my 22 players toiled in AA, no matter how high their OVR was, till just before the ASG, at which point they typically were leaps and bounds above both the person above them in AAA and MLB in OVR, but I'd always play to a certain date (pure pitchers were Aug 1, pure position players around 8/5 to 8/8, and maybe 8/13 or so for the two-ways.
This year, however, I'm not earning points (and OVR) as fast as I did in 22 for some reason, so my character played till 8/14 in AAA, and it seems the "gate" for AA to AAA is the first game after the All Star Break (so you play your AA ASG...)
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Well, 21 was an odd one for me. I ended up quitting 21 once I learned that all the gatekeeper cards I needed were locked when the season ended. But my player was a left handed hitting and throwing first baseman. Got called up and instantly moved to second base for no reason, despite not being able to turn a double play hit on the left side of the diamond and kept there for the 4-5 seasons while watching the team shuffle through about 4 different first basemen that were 5-10 points lower than I was OVR when I stopped playing.
