10 minutes absolutely sounds like enough time to determine a card's viability.

And no one in my house cares. So, I bought the beach ball pack on the first day and pulled rare round. Nolan was selling for the most, so I just sold him because I didn’t necessarily want/need any of them at the time. I didn’t buy another because I didn’t want to push my luck. Went ahead and bought Gagne in the market.

Fast forward a couple days and I decide I want Hornsby. Keep getting outbid. I decide, screw it. I cancel the buy order and decide to try my luck at the second beach ball pack. I mean, what’s 20k stubs at this point if I miss and just have to sell the base round. Then I see those 3 rare beauties come up. Hornsby is mine for almost 60k less than I was going to buy him. I was pumped. It’s the little victories in life.

Anyway, wanted to tell someone and know you all would actually understand the excitement.

If you’re doing it every pitch, that’s an issue

For the sanity of your customer base, please make it so we don’t have to go out to the menu in multi-game moments. Please, please, please. I am begging. I’ll even buy some stubs if you want. Make this happen.

It happens in RTTS, so it is possible. Please do this in moments. Please. It is such a colossal waste of time to go back to the menu each time. It’s a no-brainer.

Please pass it on @Pat_SDS @SDS_Jax and whoever else I’m forgetting.

1. Servers make it tough, at times, to get on and stay on while playing DD.

2. Loadouts aren’t working properly and some progress is not tracking in RTTS

3. Downloading rosters is an issue to starting a franchise mode?

4. Servers dropping might invalidate your MTO run, making it a risky mode to play (if you want rewards).

5. If you play HRD, you start losing the chance to gain XP.

6. If you make it into DD and try showdown, the servers could possibly drop invalidating your run.

Oh, and it’s double XP time, but the double XP doesn’t actually get credited to your account.

Is this right?

I have one small request for showdown. If we only need to accomplish hitting stats (like the first one against Oswalt), don’t make us have to mindlessly pitch the innings too. Adds to the time if you’re just failing anyway.

As cool as Trout is, I won’t be chasing

I thought of one today. Let us filter when making event lineups. Say, I want to put in as many Brewers pitchers as I can. Let me filter for Brewers. Really, there are so many QOL things I can think of that would make a big difference in how I felt about the game.:

The ones mentioned above are good. Now that we can’t quicksell collected cards, it would be wonderful if there was an easier way to deal with duplicates. So many more things I could mention.

Here are the MLB prospect rankings for these future stars, guys getting 92-and-up juiced cards. (Correct me if I got the wrong guy or missed someone):

Diamondbacks: Alek Thomas, the team's No. 2 overall prospect and No. 49 overall in the top-100 prospects in the game (not bad, comparatively).

Orioles: Ryan Mountcastle, the team's No. 4 prospect and No. 94 in the top-100 (But this one didn't surprise me).

Cubs: Nico Hoerner, the team's top prospect and No. 51 overall (again, not bad comparatively, but still juiced).

White Sox: Nick Madrigal, team No. 4 and 40th overall. Dane Dunning, team No. 6 and not in top-100.

Astros: Jose Urquidy, team No. 2 and not in top 100.

Angels: Brandon Marsh, team No. 2 and No. 79 overall.

Mets: Andres Giminez, team No. 3 and No. 84 overall.

Yankees: Clarke Schmidt, team No. 2 and No. 88 overall.

Phillies: Alec Bohm, team's No. 1 and No. 30 overall. Adonis Medina, team's No. 5 (!) and not in top 100.

Padres: Taylor Trammell, team's No. 5 and No. 57 overall (good farm system).

Mariners: Evan White, team's No. 4 and No. 56 overall.

Cardinals: Nolan Gorman, team's No. 2 and No. 47 overall.

Blue Jays: Kevan Smith, team's No. 23 (!!!!) and not in top 100.

So, needless to say, I'm not sure how you justify these guys getting 90-plus cards. Again, it seems like the prospect rankings, while maybe a little generous, seemed pretty good. These future stars are just so out of whack.

On most of the team's, it seemed like they tried to go with guys that are closer to high minors and maybe appearing in MLB. Except guys like Gorman and Thomas were Single-A advanced players and a couple were Double-A.

I've often thought about this MLB Players league. That's a ton of free advertising for them. And then to see the players complain about issues is quite a sight.

Some questions/observations:

• Can you get a “perfect” pitch with anything other than pinpoint?

• Is it TOO EASY to hit perfect with pinpoint?

• Am I doing myself a disservice by not using it?

I still use analog, if nothing more than I like the thought of “windup and fire” for pitching rather than drawing circles. That said, am I at a disadvantage because I don’t use it? Nearly everyone I face these days (I get it, it’s just the hardcores left. Not complaining) are getting so many perfect releases. I’m fairly decent at hitting spots with analog. But should I just relent and learn to use it? How hard is it to learn? How forgiving is it? I’ve held off, but if I need to learn it to really be at my best, maybe I’d do it.

My guy reminds me of Dusty Baker.

I wondered the other day if opponent success in pitching (how good they hit the marks in analog, pinpoint or whatever) affects the timing windows for the hitter. Feels like it sometimes.

Playing a game, I couldn’t time up Logan Webb, which wouldn’t usually happen.

I have more than 5 million stubs (some stashed in places) and nothing I want to buy. I’ve been playing for several years. I cant ever remember being in this position. This is absolutely the most stubs I’ve ever had at one point.

Just nothing I feel like buying and don’t want to buy just for the sake of buying. I feel like I should leave cards I don’t want for people who do want them. Feel it’s kind of selfish to just have cards sitting that some people might want/need. I have the best version of every player (minus Seager and Walter Johnson, that I have bids on and probably won’t get). That’s good enough for me. I don’t need awards Pujols when I have the milestone, for example.

And stubs are going to accumulate further as I progress with nothing I want to buy.

So, in my several years playing, this does feel different, a more abrupt end too early.

Hahahahahahaha

Being able to search in market (or on app or web) all cards in your inventory that are sellable.

Has anyone else had issues with auto baserunning and baserunners going to the next base on fly outs? In the past week or so, I’ve noticed several times where my guy will keep running to the next base instead of automatically going halfway and then going back to the base on fly outs. First time, I thought maybe I accidentally hit a button. But it’s happened several times lately, against CPU and in event.

Also, I’ve had a couple games in the past two events lately where it’s been really hard to control pitches using analog. A lot of drifting to the middle or going way outside and nowhere near where I’m aiming with decent input. And it’s not just the low control guys. Like it happened with finest Verlander and it just happened with finest Alcantara who had 111 bb/9.

Who are your favorite swings in the game? Disregard attributes and quirks and all. I’m talking swings. Like, Mookie Betts is good no matter the rating. Maybe these are guys who perform above their attributes?

@iBonafideScrub_ said in To the two forum members I played against today.:

@bhall09_PSN Man wtf, the RNG was clearly favoring me, a lot of bs happened in the first inning with your middle infielders dropping routine grounders. Gameplay really sucks

I did have to chuckle at your team name. … and then, of course, that happens.

@iBonafideScrub_ said in To the two forum members I played against today.:

@bhall09_PSN Man wtf, the RNG was clearly favoring me, a lot of bs happened in the first inning with your middle infielders dropping routine grounders. Gameplay really sucks

Haha. And decent pitches with Verlander were going nowhere where I was aiming. Had to pause occasionally just to take a breath. Oh well, I guess. It was one of THOSE games. But kudos to you