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@dolenz_psn said in Supercharged Players:

Crank up that supercharged card for Tyler O'Neill!

2 for 2 with a HR and 4 RBIs in the first two innings.

His prices on the market skyrocketed right after that homerun.

Anything that makes Live Series players more relevant is fine by me.

@stewart1465 said in Your best and final MVP for MLB20:

Probably Junior and POTM Tatis Prestige. I'm hoping to Prestige Junior in this next Event.

These exact 2 for me. Finest Mookie with an honorable mention.

Her resume is stupid impressive. If you just saw the prior jobs she had and didn’t know her gender, you’d wonder why she didn’t get a GM offer much sooner. I’ll be rooting for her.

You say you didn’t see him turning into this kind of hitter coming, then say he looked like he was born to be a designated hitter. So maybe you did see it coming?

I’m willing to bet that the vast majority of people on this board are way worse at identifying directional users than they think they are.

R.I.P. to a great player and an even greater man.

Well tapping and holding do different things, so I’m not sure I understand your question.

@ImDFC said in Topps Now Tyler Alexander:

I can't get strikeouts with that card. I get consistently weak contact, but I can't actually get swings and misses

Despite his K/9, he has low velocity, no sinker, and not very good speed differentials (his fastballs are basically the same speed, and his off speed stuff is all within 4 mph of each other, in the low to mid 80’s). You’re just not going to get a lot of swings and misses against solid or better players with a bunch of 99’s on their team. At least below HoF.

In 14 innings across 2 starts in RS, I haven’t given up a run with Bieber yet. Both games in the 600’s I think. Not a lot of K’s though.

I’ll agree with Schmidt. Just recently had to replace him with Brett. He should be a top card in the game, but he just doesn’t hit like you’d expect.

@Hikes83 said in Directional is the more realistic batting input:

@Better4Ever said in Directional is the more realistic batting input:

Directional should be tweaked and then made the only form of hitting.

Elaborate?

It provides a more nuanced approach to hitting and is just more fun. There’s a reason it was the only way to hit in the best baseball game of all time.

Directional should be tweaked and then made the only form of hitting.

@maskedgrappler said in Problem with Tatis grand slam while up big?:

Can he be himself without showing up the other team? Him being general, not Tatis specifically. There's a time and place for celebration.

I have to be honest, I subscribe to a lot of these unwritten rules.

“Showing up the other team” is usually a complaint motivated by sour grapes more than anything though. Do you consider a bat flip showing up the other team? or a 3-0 grand slam? or when Harper sprinted around the bases on his walkoff grand slam last year? If you think displays of emotion after a triumph are inherently “showing up the other team,” then I would say the problem rests with you. If we’re talking about hurling insults or flipping off the other team while rounding the bases, then we can have a discussion.

But in my experience, that phrase or similar sentiments are usually directed at the former.

1. Tatis Jr. obviously only got the take sign because of the “unwritten rule,” so I don’t really care that he ignored it. At any rate, that’s an issue that should be kept in-house from the Padres perspective.

2. If the game was really out of hand to the point that players like Tatis shouldn’t be putting in effort to keep scoring, then he should have been taken out of the game. But I don’t think there’s a single manager in baseball who would have taken out Tatis in that situation, because they know that lead isn’t completely safe. So spare me the arguments that Tatis should try to get on base, but not too hard.

3. Teams are evaluating contracts by age and numbers driven value more than ever. These teams don’t get to tell players not to do whatever it takes to inflate their numbers, then turn around in arbitration or contract negotiations and try to use their stats against them.

4. Baseball has a star problem. Tatis is one of the most star ready players the sport has seen in a long time (not just his talent, but his charisma and overall likability). So of course the league will do whatever it takes to stamp out his individuality and make him Like one of the rest of the players who aren’t recognizable to the general public. Baseball will continue to have these marketing issues if they can’t convince the actual people playing to let the players be themselves and be stars.

@MaxHarvest said in How far has everyone got in All Time Greats program?:

@DarthKDog09 said in How far has everyone got in All Time Greats program?:

@nymets1987 said in How far has everyone got in All Time Greats program?:

@MaxHarvest said in How far has everyone got in All Time Greats program?:

I had Ruth like 2 hours ago, what’s taking you guys so long

Really?

Yes really. Hey, i got some oceanview property in Phoenix for cheap. Interested?

Oh sweet how much per acre my dude?

If you’ll buy that I’ll throw the golden gate in free.

Nothing worse than going up to bat when you need a steal and there’s a runner on first. Or, you get on base with two outs, and the batter strikes out on the first pitch.

I wish they would just let us start these moments already on base.

@ChuckCLC said in Other than Tatis:

Why Tatis? He leads the league in K's and has a modest BA. Does have 11 rbi though. But Springer has 10 rbi and I am not mentioning him for an upgrade. But Correa is off to a quick start. Which is weird. But better numbers than Tatis.

Tatis is 3rd in all of baseball in fWAR.

Conquest gives great rewards, but it’s a slog of a mode. Conquering territories is boring and takes too long. I also don’t care for playing the games against real life teams. We need more offline modes where you play teams with a variety of cards like the Signature squad Moments last year.

I would never publicly admit that I lost to the CPU on All-Star, unless I was playing with a bunch of bronze and common players for some reason.