Any predictions on players for next Team Affinities?
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It will be flashbacks and legends.
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I would love the Jays to be a 1993 All Star John Olerud. This card would have absolutely ridiculous contact. 120-125 contact both sides... and much better power than his Mets card. His slash line that year. .363/.473/.599
Flirted with .400 into August. This card would be a 93 at worst... -
@Nanthrax_1 said in Any predictions on players for next Team Affinities?:
I would love the Jays to be a 1993 All Star John Olerud. This card would have absolutely ridiculous contact. 120-125 contact both sides... and much better power than his Mets card. His slash line that year. .363/.473/.599
Flirted with .400 into August. This card would be a 93 at worst...Not to mention very good defensively. They are running a Jays Classics marathon showing both 92 and 93 runs on Sportsnet. I’m enjoying reliving these moments. I was 10 at the time and remember watching
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@Hikes83 said in Any predictions on players for next Team Affinities?:
@Nanthrax_1 said in Any predictions on players for next Team Affinities?:
I would love the Jays to be a 1993 All Star John Olerud. This card would have absolutely ridiculous contact. 120-125 contact both sides... and much better power than his Mets card. His slash line that year. .363/.473/.599
Flirted with .400 into August. This card would be a 93 at worst...Not to mention very good defensively. They are running a Jays Classics marathon showing both 92 and 93 runs on Sportsnet. I’m enjoying reliving these moments. I was 10 at the time and remember watching
Me too man! I've been watching them all. I was 9 at the time. Brings me right back.
I prefer the 93 title though, simply because I like Molitor more than Winfield, and the ending was more climactic
And Rickey -
Molitor was so clutch in that run. My favourite player growing up was Joe Carter even before that homerun so I get it about the 93 run. Thank god Borders hit like a machine in 92 cause he couldn’t throw anyone out on the basepaths!
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@Hikes83 said in Any predictions on players for next Team Affinities?:
Molitor was so clutch in that run. Thank god Borders hit like a machine in 92 cause he couldn’t throw anyone out on the basepaths!
Granted he was tasked with throwing out Deion freaking Sanders and Otis Nixon!! Lol
But ya! Borders was great! Big homer off Glavine that one game.
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@THE_Tomdawg69er said in Any predictions on players for next Team Affinities?:
@marquesm00 said in Any predictions on players for next Team Affinities?:
Here’s my Predictions assuming they still are active players ranging from gold or lower:
Red Sox: Bogaerts
Yankees: Gardner
Blue Jays: Giles
Orioles: Chris Davis
Rays: KiermeirerIndians: Carrasco
Tigers: Miguel Cabrera
White Sox: Abreau
Twins: Berrios
Royals: Salvador PerezAngels: Pujols
Astros: could really be any of those cheaters but I’ll guess Reddick
Rangers: Andrus
Athletics: Sean Manaea
Mariners: who knows, Vogelbach?Nationals: Tre Turner
Marlins: Urena
Braves: Soroka
Mets: Syndargaurd
Phillies: HoskinsPirates: Taillon
Cubs: Schwarber
Cardinals: Carpenter
Brewers: Braun
Reds: CastilloDodgers: Muncy
Rockies: Desmond
Diamondbacks: Archie Bradley
Padres: Hosmer
Giants: SandovalNow I’m kind of hoping they change it up and instead of doing just present players, use past players. For instance, like a Kevin Youkillis for the Red Sox or a Tim Lincecum for the Giants.
For the padres to get a good hosmer flashback, he’d have to have a good season there...
Didn't want the Royals to sign Gordon. Hugely overated player in Royals history. Didn't want them to sign Hosmer either for that amount. Glad they didn't but he is still a better overall player than Gordon.
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I would like to see the next round be Future of the Franchise.
There are still plenty of high rated prospects who don’t have good cards.
AJ Puk, Bobby Witt Jr, Ke’Bryan Hayes, Gavin Lux and so on.
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Idk I know someone pointed out the positions for the missions, for example the Braves is 2B for Ozzie and then 1B and OF for Freddie and Acuna which would make sense if they were doing FotF for all. Idk though, only reason I haven’t locked in Braves yet
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@D_e_m_I_s_E said in Any predictions on players for next Team Affinities?:
@THE_Tomdawg69er said in Any predictions on players for next Team Affinities?:
@marquesm00 said in Any predictions on players for next Team Affinities?:
Here’s my Predictions assuming they still are active players ranging from gold or lower:
Red Sox: Bogaerts
Yankees: Gardner
Blue Jays: Giles
Orioles: Chris Davis
Rays: KiermeirerIndians: Carrasco
Tigers: Miguel Cabrera
White Sox: Abreau
Twins: Berrios
Royals: Salvador PerezAngels: Pujols
Astros: could really be any of those cheaters but I’ll guess Reddick
Rangers: Andrus
Athletics: Sean Manaea
Mariners: who knows, Vogelbach?Nationals: Tre Turner
Marlins: Urena
Braves: Soroka
Mets: Syndargaurd
Phillies: HoskinsPirates: Taillon
Cubs: Schwarber
Cardinals: Carpenter
Brewers: Braun
Reds: CastilloDodgers: Muncy
Rockies: Desmond
Diamondbacks: Archie Bradley
Padres: Hosmer
Giants: SandovalNow I’m kind of hoping they change it up and instead of doing just present players, use past players. For instance, like a Kevin Youkillis for the Red Sox or a Tim Lincecum for the Giants.
For the padres to get a good hosmer flashback, he’d have to have a good season there...
Didn't want the Royals to sign Gordon. Hugely overated player in Royals history. Didn't want them to sign Hosmer either for that amount. Glad they didn't but he is still a better overall player than Gordon.
Hosmer
9 seasons
9.9 WAR, 107 wRC+, -7 DRS/-27.1 UZRGordon
13 seasons (2 injury shortened)
32.1 WAR, 103 wRC+, 112 DRS, 87.3 UZRWho's overrated???
Hosmer is as overrated as it gets...
Gordon has always been slightly underrated if anything, for his career... He's an amazing fielder.
Hosmer isn't even half of Gordon for his career... -
What plagued Gordon was that he never lived up to the hype offensively. I remember the huge debate was Braun or Gordon. Both playing 3B coming into the league. Braun had huge offensive years (helped by HGH but thats a whole other conversation). Gordon was an elite defender. Just never broke out as an elite hitter
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@Hikes83 said in Any predictions on players for next Team Affinities?:
What plagued Gordon was that he never lived up to the hype offensively. I remember the huge debate was Braun or Gordon. Both playing 3B coming into the league. Braun had huge offensive years (helped by HGH but thats a whole other conversation). Gordon was an elite defender. Just never broke out as an elite hitter
Yup, he had massive hype. Was supposed to be the next George Brett. It's funny that he turned out to be a light hitting historically excellent defender in LF of all places, but carving out a +30 WAR career is still fantastic.
Hosmer on the other hand has done nothing to warrant that contract he got, and should have no place owning 3 GGs
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@D_e_m_I_s_E said in Any predictions on players for next Team Affinities?:
@THE_Tomdawg69er said in Any predictions on players for next Team Affinities?:
@marquesm00 said in Any predictions on players for next Team Affinities?:
Here’s my Predictions assuming they still are active players ranging from gold or lower:
Red Sox: Bogaerts
Yankees: Gardner
Blue Jays: Giles
Orioles: Chris Davis
Rays: KiermeirerIndians: Carrasco
Tigers: Miguel Cabrera
White Sox: Abreau
Twins: Berrios
Royals: Salvador PerezAngels: Pujols
Astros: could really be any of those cheaters but I’ll guess Reddick
Rangers: Andrus
Athletics: Sean Manaea
Mariners: who knows, Vogelbach?Nationals: Tre Turner
Marlins: Urena
Braves: Soroka
Mets: Syndargaurd
Phillies: HoskinsPirates: Taillon
Cubs: Schwarber
Cardinals: Carpenter
Brewers: Braun
Reds: CastilloDodgers: Muncy
Rockies: Desmond
Diamondbacks: Archie Bradley
Padres: Hosmer
Giants: SandovalNow I’m kind of hoping they change it up and instead of doing just present players, use past players. For instance, like a Kevin Youkillis for the Red Sox or a Tim Lincecum for the Giants.
For the padres to get a good hosmer flashback, he’d have to have a good season there...
Didn't want the Royals to sign Gordon. Hugely overated player in Royals history. Didn't want them to sign Hosmer either for that amount. Glad they didn't but he is still a better overall player than Gordon.
There is no evidence that points to Hosmer being better than Gordon. In fact...all the evidence says the contrary.
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I feel like they missed a chance with TA that they set up perfectly. I'm stuck in an online class, so this'll probably end up a rambling.
If they broke it up into the 4 seasons, that opened the door to do some great thematic ideas.
They could have done something like Spring: Rookies, Summer: Breakouts, Fall: Award Winners, Winter: FotF (or Finest). (I've given this very little thought)
That opens up more access to content, and can build the cards up instead of releasing a ton of diamonds right away while getting increasingly good content throughout the season.
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My guess is its gonna be a generational thing. First start with live series players like they did, then go to early generations of the teams 20's-60's, then 70's-mid 90's, then finish it with late 90's-2000's players. Streams made it seem like they got a good amount of 90's-2000's players so I think that will be the final TA players
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I got a bad feeling about the affinity cards. I think we’re gonna get these monster cards out of there that will be used for the rest of the season so I’m hoping they take a while to put them out.
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@CCCStunna30 said in Any predictions on players for next Team Affinities?:
My guess is its gonna be a generational thing. First start with live series players like they did, then go to early generations of the teams 20's-60's, then 70's-mid 90's, then finish it with late 90's-2000's players. Streams made it seem like they got a good amount of 90's-2000's players so I think that will be the final TA players
There couldn't be a list of players for the previous eras for some of the teams (Marlins, Rockies, Rays, etc). I would love to see more early historical players, but I dont think the TA section is where they do that.
Like was mentioned earlier, it's probably 3 players from each current team.
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Did they say we would get new cards with the seasonal updates? I hope there are, but I wouldn’t be surprised if we just got stubs or more packs. Maybe the lock packs with a gold or something.
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@MathMan5072 said in Any predictions on players for next Team Affinities?:
Did they say we would get new cards with the seasonal updates? I hope there are, but I wouldn’t be surprised if we just got stubs or more packs. Maybe the lock packs with a gold or something.
I'm of the same opinion, would be great if they did, however adding 120 grindable diamond players seems like a tall order. First wave were strong cards, three more encores....I'm not sure.
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@Nanthrax_1 said in Any predictions on players for next Team Affinities?:
@D_e_m_I_s_E said in Any predictions on players for next Team Affinities?:
@THE_Tomdawg69er said in Any predictions on players for next Team Affinities?:
@marquesm00 said in Any predictions on players for next Team Affinities?:
Here’s my Predictions assuming they still are active players ranging from gold or lower:
Red Sox: Bogaerts
Yankees: Gardner
Blue Jays: Giles
Orioles: Chris Davis
Rays: KiermeirerIndians: Carrasco
Tigers: Miguel Cabrera
White Sox: Abreau
Twins: Berrios
Royals: Salvador PerezAngels: Pujols
Astros: could really be any of those cheaters but I’ll guess Reddick
Rangers: Andrus
Athletics: Sean Manaea
Mariners: who knows, Vogelbach?Nationals: Tre Turner
Marlins: Urena
Braves: Soroka
Mets: Syndargaurd
Phillies: HoskinsPirates: Taillon
Cubs: Schwarber
Cardinals: Carpenter
Brewers: Braun
Reds: CastilloDodgers: Muncy
Rockies: Desmond
Diamondbacks: Archie Bradley
Padres: Hosmer
Giants: SandovalNow I’m kind of hoping they change it up and instead of doing just present players, use past players. For instance, like a Kevin Youkillis for the Red Sox or a Tim Lincecum for the Giants.
For the padres to get a good hosmer flashback, he’d have to have a good season there...
Didn't want the Royals to sign Gordon. Hugely overated player in Royals history. Didn't want them to sign Hosmer either for that amount. Glad they didn't but he is still a better overall player than Gordon.
Hosmer
9 seasons
9.9 WAR, 107 wRC+, -7 DRS/-27.1 UZRGordon
13 seasons (2 injury shortened)
32.1 WAR, 103 wRC+, 112 DRS, 87.3 UZRWho's overrated???
Hosmer is as overrated as it gets...
Gordon has always been slightly underrated if anything, for his career... He's an amazing fielder.
Hosmer isn't even half of Gordon for his career...One of those numbers guys huh? Do you watch the Royals? I watch them all the time. Hosmer is better in almost every offensive category than Gordon with 1,000 less ab's. Although Gordon has more steals, Hosmer would beat him in a foot race. WAR is really not a great stat. It just says Gordon's replacement was worse than Hosmer's.
