I’d gladly take a ton of extra conquests and stat grinds to do away with moments. I didn’t mind moments too much (I enjoy the pitching ones a lot actually) until the Brian Anderson show of a moment

Just want to sincerely thank you guys for the feedback. This flipping cards thing you guys helped turn me onto is a game changer and I was able to scarf up DeGrom! Sheffield and Mantle are in the bank, and now it's onto finish the Trout collection! Thank you guys again!

If you have classic stadiums, Shibe Park is fairly easy to poke some out of. When I need to do some stat grinds against the CPU, Shibe is almost always my goto stadium for hitters.

As an offline player, give me all the conquests while jamming these moments straight up someone's [censored]. The Brian Anderson moment has single handedly has ruined any (which wasn't much) enjoyment I had for moments.

@BodamEscapePlan said in We should have a little less than a week...:

@jz2016cubs said in We should have a little less than a week...:

Until we get the cover player! Now this is if they stay with when they did it last year. October 21. I am excited to find out!

For obvious selfish reasons, I'd love to get like Luis Robert, Lucas Giolito, or Tim Anderson on the cover -- but I know that none of those guys are "household names" quite yet that will sell copies and kick off The Show's first year going cross-platform with The Show 21 releasing on the Xbox and PC.

With that in mind, I'd love to see multiple legends on the cover. Maybe they could get Hank Aaron, Pedro Martinez, Roberto Clemente, and Randy Johnson's rights and put all of them on the cover including other legends like Griffey Jr., Mantle, Bob Gibson, and Frank Thomas. I would love that!

Nevermind him being on the cover...as my favorite player in history, I just want Clemente in the game...

@The_DoctorsWife said in So I miraculously pulled LS DeGrom:

@bshaff27 said in So I miraculously pulled LS DeGrom:

@The_DoctorsWife said in So I miraculously pulled LS DeGrom:

@BruceyBruce29 I envy you. Selling him is probably best if you don't want Mantle—hopefully SDS will make more of cards like him available to the market soon so I can afford him

Just out of curiosity, what’s your target price range for DeGrom? I’ve seen you mention that you needed to afford him to finish. I finally got him a couple weeks ago @ $205ish

Less than 100,000 stubs is my ideal price. I just can't afford much beyond that at the moment, at least not until I'm able to grind and flip cards from RIB conquest.

Unless his overall drops to an 89 like Cole or Mad Max, I don’t know that you’ll see it get under 135K (but I’m not expert on the market by any means)

@jz2016cubs said in Finally!:

@lazy_toast said in Finally!:

I would go Maddux or Madmax before Orel. Just not a huge fan. And i have Maddux era for online down to 2.25

MadOK.
I will probably try out Maddux. Eventually, my dream rotation is, in no order, Maddux, Orel, MadMax, and not sure on the other 2 yet.

Go get free Bob Gibson! Dudes a stud! I’m in the minority but I love Seaver and MadBum as well. If you use them correctly, Sig Series Lester and Vida are fun too! But without being smug, you actually have to know how to real life pitch to successfully use them because if you don’t sequence pitches well, they get hammered, even against the CPU

Bob Gibson is an animal when I use him offline. When I was at my brothers last weekend, and we played online with his account (my internet is awful at home) he hit and I pitched and I dominated with Gibson. Righty-righty changeup was devastating. Especially if you can tunnel it off his curveball. Hitters try to wait on it thinking the change is gonna drop like the curve and kept pounding it to third base

@bayareaj1991 said in It seems the nonsense begins at approximately 820.:

@AGENTSxOFxCHAOS said in It seems the nonsense begins at approximately 820.:

@bayareaj1991 said in It seems the nonsense begins at approximately 820.:

@AGENTSxOFxCHAOS said in It seems the nonsense begins at approximately 820.:

@bayareaj1991 said in It seems the nonsense begins at approximately 820.:

@AGENTSxOFxCHAOS said in It seems the nonsense begins at approximately 820.:

@bayareaj1991 said in It seems the nonsense begins at approximately 820.:

So instead if hitting into an ending inning double play; he was brave enough to try a suicide squeeze with the bases loaded.

Seems like good small ball.

Also, you start off the post with the words I do not see why all the hate then proceed to complain that he made a successful suicide squeeze.

So you call pressing a button and letting the game do the work brave? Interesting. Yes it is great small ball in real life where it takes skill to lay down a squeeze bunt but not in this game. Lastly, I was saying I do not see the hate because I do not see why people would hate on someone talking about the people who bunt dance and do all of that [censored] but what I was complaining about was someone letting the game bail them out to win a game. You say made a successful suicide squeeze as if the player actually had to do anything to get that down beside press a button. The game laid down a successful suicide squeeze, not the player I played.

And if he would've hit a Grand Slam to win it; would that have been the game 'bailing him out'? Because technically, all he had to do was, in your words, 'hit a button'.

Wrong. Like I told the other guy, in order to hit in this game you have to time the pitch up, get your pci to it and then press the x/square button so that actually takes some sort of skill. I would of had no issue if he hit a grandslam. Bunting is literally just pressing the triangle button and letting the game do the work so those are two totally different things.

Pretty sure you still need to move the PCI to bunt.

However; I assume we're discussing the game vs AMBBBY.

If so; this is the Game Log for the bottom of the 9th:

He doubled to left field with Yelich and then he bunted Yelich over to 3rd with Mondesi. I would say that's smart.

Then you proceed to walk the bases loaded by walking Ruth and Tatis.

He then comes up to bat with Jimmie Foxx. Who bunted to third and it looks like Brett bobbled the ball (says it was an Error).

Was it cheap to bunt with Foxx? Maybe. But he took a chance and it paid off.

Now, you're a 100 Prestige level player and have over 500 RS games played; so you've 'been around'.

He bunted earlier in the inning. Did you put you shift into Bunt Defense when he came up with Foxx?

Because someone with your 'play Time' would think that a bunt would catch me off surprise here; so I better be prepared.

You weren't prepared. He took a gamble and it paid off.

I think I can safely say that ANY competitive player would agree with me that it wasnt the game out 'bailing him out'. It was just a situation where he knew your defense and took a shot.

Sorry but you're wrong again with two things. First off you literally don't need to use your pci to bunt. Just press triangle and the computer does the work for you. Second, he did bunt with Mondesi which I have no problem with because it was a sac bunt which is fine to me. Third, I had the third and first baseman playing in for Foxx with the second baseman and shortstop back in case he hits a grounder up the middle for a double play so my defense was exactly as it should have been. There was no error, it was a hard bunt right to Brett (who was playing in) and thee was no bobble. He stole and bunted so by the time Brett got the ball the runner on third was a few steps from home so there was no chance so don't assume I was not prepared when I literally was. Anyways I just don't believe in winning that way. That's not the way I would go about it just like I wouldn't ask for prestige stats in event games like a lot of these players but it is what it is. Have a good day.

Honestly, this is whiney, sore loser talk. As a baseball coach, he got you, plain and simple. You didn't suspect a bunt in that situation, otherwise you'd of thrown a ball high and tight trying to get a pop up (which would result in a gimme double play or down and in to make it where he either 1) bunts it foul or 2) whiffs and you get the guy stealing at the plate. You can argue that the game did the work for him and it took no skill all you want, but at the end of the day, the same can be said that you showed no skill either by not scheming around it with how you were pitching to Foxx.

Hey everyone,

First post, and first year of playing DD. I'm a baseball coach and one of my assistants finally talked me into playing DD over the 4th of July. My internet at home is absolutely horrendous so I don't play Ranked Season or anything online (mostly because it's virtually impossible with my internet where I live. Anyways, I am one card away from completing the LS collection, all I need is DeGrom. What is the best way I can go about getting him without having to spend $100 to get 150K worth of stubs? My stub count currently is around 60K because I've had to spend my stubs to obtain the cards for LS and Trout collections (I'm close on Trout as well.) Any help would be greatly appreciated, thanks!

Surprised to see no love for Honus

What in the world is up with the doves or whatever bird they appear to be circling in CF like a dang halo? It’s driving me nuts and depending the field and timing of the pitcher, makes it hard to pick up the baseball occasionally.

@dlgltal-athlete_psn said in CPU pickoffs:

@bshaff27_psn said in CPU pickoffs:

I’m not one to typically complain about gameplay issues, mostly because a lot of others make 10,000 threads on the same issues, and the ones that aren’t redundantly covered, seem to fall on deaf ears.

But with that said, CPU pickoffs are absolutely unrealistic and ruin game play. There’s no reason under the sun for the CPU to throw over 6 straight times on a guy with 50 speed. None whatsoever. And the amount of times guys get picked off base with or without one extra step is ridiculous too. Especially guys with good speed and excellent baserunning. Particularly off of second base. The dive back is horrendous and essentially a bellyflop.

As if CPU OF throwing and the INF diving hasn’t been ridiculous enough, the endless pickoffs (with or without the extr step lead) is atrocious and needs addressed.

By any chance are you holding R2 to check the pitcher's repertoire or placement if his previous pitches thrown?

I've noticed that if I hold R2 during a CPU game to check those things the pitcher throws over 99.9% of time.

Very rarely will I see them throw over other times.

No, I don’t. I used to do the guess pitch, but since you can’t use that feature in mini seasons, I’ve gotten out of the habit (and actually seen an uptick on my hitting). I wouldn’t even care about the pickoff attempts, if the dive back animation wasn’t a belly flop. I have no problem with a bad or average base runner getting occasionally picked off. But top flight base runners shouldn’t get picked off against the CPU at the rate they do, with or without one extra step (if you take more than one, by all means it should be frequent)

I am very aggressive on the bases. I’m an offline only player because the internet services where I live are horrendous. I personally play this game the same way I coach it in real life, small ball. Hit & runs, suicide squeezes, steals, sac bunts, hit behind runners, etc. I know that would be frowned upon in online play, but I don’t play online so it’s not hurting anyone.

I can imagine people do exploit it in online play. And I have no issue with say cover athlete Miggy getting picked off if he takes an extra step. But for example, AS Lofton, shouldn’t get picked off 2nd base (even with 1 extra step) 40% of the time. And shouldn’t get picked off 2nd base 20% without an extra step.

I’m not an online player, so I’m not quite sure the exact ways it gets exploited online, but you should get penalized for doing dumb things with bad base runners. But Henderson, Lofton, Rollins, etc, shouldn’t be handicapped so significantly in my opinion.

Also, please don’t take this as me arguing or bitching at you, just discussion, and admittedly, frustrated, because I’m not exploiting the game offline, just playing “old school” baseball

I’m not one to typically complain about gameplay issues, mostly because a lot of others make 10,000 threads on the same issues, and the ones that aren’t redundantly covered, seem to fall on deaf ears.

But with that said, CPU pickoffs are absolutely unrealistic and ruin game play. There’s no reason under the sun for the CPU to throw over 6 straight times on a guy with 50 speed. None whatsoever. And the amount of times guys get picked off base with or without one extra step is ridiculous too. Especially guys with good speed and excellent baserunning. Particularly off of second base. The dive back is horrendous and essentially a bellyflop.

As if CPU OF throwing and the INF diving hasn’t been ridiculous enough, the endless pickoffs (with or without the extr step lead) is atrocious and needs addressed.

I love college baseball so I use random college baseball teams, find unique logos from the vault and then customize the jerseys. In the past I’ve been Arizona State (Sparky logo), TCU (throwback TC logo), Army, Penn State, Boise State (horse leaning on state logo) and this year I’m using Carolina Tar Heels with the ram head logo. And designed the uniforms custom.

It happened to me once, and I just rolled with it. You still play 28 games, so unless you struggle on veteran or AS, it essentially guarantees you’re going to finish in first place ‍️. Might as well take the XP. Once I clinched first place, I used the remaining 10 games or so to knock out some of the missions before reinserting my premier team for the postseason

@cosmic_wonders said in Just lucked into a PlayStation 5:

Did you pay retail or above? I would love to luck into a PS5

I paid retail, although I was forced to acquire the “Horizon Forbidden West” bundle for $449.99 off the PlayStation website. No idea what that is, and I’ll never play it, but all things considered, I was okay with it. I’ll stick to my two games, MLBTS and NCAA Football haha!

Thanks everyone, I appreciate the feedback!

Had no intention of buying a PS 5 until NCAA Football returns to the market, as MLB The Show is the only video game I play since NCAA stopped. But in anticipation of it’s return next summer, I figured I’d look into one now, and sure enough lucked into one.

I’m sure it’s been asked and answered, and if so, you can direct me to the appropriate thread, but will I be able to carry over my DD from my PS4 to my PS5 when it arrives, or will I be forced to purchase and start from scratch?

@gixxerryder750 said in Player proportions to field size:

Right Field at Old Miami feels like a football field compared to left.

Well for what’s it’s worth, that was realistic in real life because Pro Player Stadium (Old Miami) was/is the home of the Miami Dolphins. I don’t mean any snark with this comment either