Lack of big legends
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I wish SDS would be more transparent as to the reason why SPECEFIC players aren’t in the game. Whether it’s the estate, the player, finances, etc.
Because too many times I’ve heard Bonds, Ty Cobb, A Rod, Daryl Strawberry, Jose Canseco, Ichiro, Bo Jackson…..and you wander, is it the player, the estate, or is SDS not interested in that player.
Transparency would be nice. Example, if Bonds don’t want in the game, forget him.
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Negotiations are private because players don’t want their beans spilled and SDS doesn’t want to alienate potential future legends by leaking priveleged info and souring the relationship before it even starts.
Yeah, it stinks having to play the guessing game, but that’s how the world works.
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@globetrotter360_PSN Bonds. Bonds and Bonds is the most mentioned legend for The Show.
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@NWOStunna_PSN I don’t think that would help future negotiations, so that’s a very bad idea.
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@LIONED-33_XBL And the least likely to ever be in the show again, at least while he’s alive.
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but without that transparency from SDS I’ll assume they’re not trying and listening to their fanbase.
Way to assume the worst of SDS.
If they came out and shifted the blame to the players (because they wanted too much for example) then they may hurt their future ability to negotiate with that player or estate again.
If MLB has told them that specific legends like Rose is off limits then coming out and saying as much may hurt their relationship with MLB
If the decision to not have a player is theirs for whatever reason then why bother saying anything since gamers are just going to automatically blame them anyway.
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I have a sneaking suspicion that with the wbc and international players there saving a big international name to be collection reward my guess is ichiro tbh
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@Onix_Savage22_PSN I don’t think they could give Ichiro enough power to be the full collection. They could be saving him for the AL reward though. I still think Arod is possible. We haven’t seen Tulo yet. It could be him, but he could also be a Jolt or NL West reward. I doubt Andruw Jones is the collection since he’s already the Braves reward.
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@GoozeFn_PSN
That’s fair I was thinking even if they put his power in the area of 100 it would be a card that would play extremely well as it would have 99 fielding stats and speed I think they could make a ichiro card similar to the Beltrán of last year with a little more contact little less power I love you a-rod shout even as a redsox fan but I feel very unlikely tulo is one I wouldn’t mind or even like a triple crown Miguel Cabrera card would be nice or a buster card -
A CF with great speed/defense does need high power int he early stages of the game. Plus the parallel mod can do some work here too
That said, Ichiro is very unlikely since another game would be involved
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I could see a 95 Posey as the NL West collection. Dodgers collection is brutal but that would soften the blow
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@Onix_Savage22_PSN I don’t think they could give him more than 80ish power. He never surpassed 15 home runs. The Jeter reward only had 90 power and he hit significantly more HR and had a season of 24 HR. Tony Gwynn usually gets 80-90 and he had a year of 17 HR in ~100 less AB than Ichiro’s 15 season. I just don’t see them making it good enough to justify the whole collection.
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@Teak2112_MLBTS That would make sense.
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I have a sneaking suspicion that with the wbc and international players there saving a big international name to be collection reward my guess is ichiro tbh
Pujols is MLB
Felix will be AL
Tulo will be NLIchiro is a Clemente/UNIT/Pedro/Ortiz/Pujols level legend who would be the main system-seller for that given year. And we already have one of those.
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Its gonna be hilarious when the NL west collection turns out to be a 93 Fernando lol
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@Dolenz_PSN No, it’s a fair assessment. I’m not saying tell the status of an individual they did not obtain, but should explain across thousands of possibilities why no one was added. There have been a lot of expressed interest in more new legends and even regional legends known mostly to one team’s fans. These are clearly easier players to obtain rights to use and also infuse some freshness to a new season. With such a wide range of players to look into, it would absolutely be not listening to a fanbase to not bring some of those new faces into the game. That was written 2-3 days ago and spot-on, since yesterday they did announce exactly that. I commend SDS for assembling a number of new legends across different eras. They’ve teased a big announcement today and I’ll be hoping for a new, major early legend.
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@SaveFarris_PSN I feel if that Pujols card is mlb collection a lot of people will be very unhappy I would not be one of them as it is a exciting new legend but people will not be happy at the fact that he’s a first basemen and his power stats are not as high as I would think for mlb collection reward I also can’t see them leaking the league collection reward that easy but idk we will have to wait and see
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and his power stats are not as high
I see that. Keep in mind that the Carlos Beltran LS collection reward was at 100/103 for power in 2025. In the first couple of months, Pujols will be one of the best cards in the game.
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@MarioMendoza935_XBL yeah I do agree and Personally I would be excited about Pujols but Beltrán was also a switch hitting center fielder with max defence and ability to steal bases there will definitely be part of the community that is upset but there’s also people that just complain about everything lol
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@MarioMendoza935_XBL because there is that select part of the community that believes every card has to be a 5 tool player to be “good enough”
