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“Confirm Restart” is what they should’ve called the 7 TB moment... cuz that’s all I been hitting for the better part of an hour on that thing since coming home from work. Frustrating AF

Austin Meadows' swing is underrated.
Switched to his swing w/ my cap and absolutely love it... from both sides of the plate.

Gotta go with what you're most comfortable with. You may like the stance but not the swing (or vice-versa). Try a few, give each a decent sample size and roll with what's working... til it's not.

Personally, I've liked => Meadows, Moncada, Mondesi, Tatis, Chipper, Gwynn and a few others. But that's way more about the swings (compact & quick) than the stances.

Big Hurt ==>> what it's gon feel like deciding who plays at 1B between Frank, Babe, Stan, Thome, Belli, Thames, etc.......

@SHOW_TIME_ryan said in All the shiny new cards and flash sales are fine but....:

They already made money from us when we bought the game. Players are still buying stubs to play this trash.

No reason for them to fix what we want. They’ll promise us the issues are fixed next year and the process will start all over.

That's what I'm starting to believe. Very little incentive for issues getting fixed.

BUT..... the MLB Players Lg is growing in popularity and the embarrassment of the game's failures is growing along w/ it. I'll tune into Snell's Twitch just hoping for some moronic development to occur, costing a big W. It's already happening. Maybe the pressure to revert back to Day One will be overwhelming soon.

Brujan... so well-balanced w/ sneaky pop.
Just can't hit consistently enough w/ Ryno, Roberts, McNeil, Merrifield, etc. to unseat him.

Conquest for the grinds and hidden rewards 1st time thru, but I do like the Showdowns & BR for being able to try out some of the diamond players I don't have. MTO isn't as much fun after you've completed it with your fave team.

I'm cool w/ Legends and so-called Future Stars alike. Do think the glorification of most of the FS is getting outta hand tho.

But really just wanna see more 'exciting' - if not controversial - Legends.
IDK bout rights-n-licenses-n-such, but releasing a 80s/90s/00s Tandem Series would be fun: Gooden/Strawberry, Canseco/McGwire, Bonds/Bonilla (or Kent), Belle/Thome (or Manny), Big Unit/Schilling, Mattingly/Winfield, Ripken/Palmeiro, etc.

I'm hyped... and I haven't even seen his hitting attributes yet.

Lvl 90 so I gotta make a decision soon. It's between Larkin, Ryno & Reggie for me.

Leaning Larkin. Currently using 78-Mondesi as my #8 hitter (prefer his spd/def over 81-Tatis), so Larkin would be a nice upgrade.

Like Ryno but I'm hitting like .450 w/ 84-Xavier Edwards at top of my lineup and 83-Albies backing him up.

Would love to just plop Reggie in the middle of my lineup w/ all that PWR, but I value defense in RF. Rather keep 86-Mantle there for now and eventually get Judge to go w/ Trout & Grandy/Stanton. Minoso's card is intriguing too.

Have always gotten $100 versions and built from there. This year no exception. Was lucky enough to pull Trout 1st day so all gravy since. Only problem I have now is resisting the urge to sell Trout just to substantially upgrade a few other positions. Proper grinding continues to curb that idea tho. Plus Trout MASHES lol. Feel like I'd immediately regret selling him -- esp. if I don't do well w/ Rollins, Belli, Rutschman or whoever.

@floating_goat34 said in Not a fan of new pitching rotation rule anymore:

I think people will use starters out of the pen less frequently once we get better bullpen arms. Right now, a lot of people’s’ most reliable pitchers are starters. I know I don’t have many relief pitchers I trust.

Yep. There's only a couple relievers I'm comfortable with right now... Nick Anderson, Kerry Wood & Osuna. Pitch like [censored] with most others, including Mo Rivera.

Bronze lvl 90.

C- Created (just 15 online innings from 89)
1B Helton-91
2B Edwards-84
3B Longo-85
SS Mondesi-78
LF Grandy/Stanton
CF Trout
RF Mantle-86

Once Silver it's either pick Larkin then use stubs (currently 45K) to replace Mantle w/ Judge... or pick Reggie and buy Rollins. Only hesitation w/ Larkin is I'd like another lefty (or switch) in the lineup.

@greenbuk75 said in Silver Level 1:

@D27J said in Silver Level 1:

Bronze lvl 90.

C- Created (just 15 online innings from 89)
1B Helton-91
2B Edwards-84
3B Longo-85
SS Mondesi-78
LF Grandy/Stanton
CF Trout
RF Mantle-96

Once Silver it's either pick Larkin then use stubs (currently 45K) to replace Mantle w/ Judge... or pick Reggie and buy Rollins. Only hesitation w/ Larkin is I'd like another lefty (or switch) in the lineup.

CAP at short is better since arod and tulo don't exist, we actually have great catchers now unlike MLB 16

True, but the only C I'd prefer to use is Rutchman.

@B_Miles11 said in Catcher 89 overall CAP selection:

Defense without equipment

Balanced:
80 Field
84 Arm
83 ACC
78 Reac
80 Blck

Contact:
90 Field
77 Arm
75 Acc
86 Reaction
90 BLK

Flip of the coin really.

Not disrespectful but you definitely know whenever Trout, Gallo, Stanton, Judge, Belli, Griffey, etc. connect. Love how short-n-sweet Grandy's bat drop is. Didi's no doubter is nice too. Really like Meadows finishing w/ that high helicopter bat twirl like McGriff.

Haven't seen Papi's no doubter yet. I'm a Rays fan so him literally tossing his bat halfway to the dugout (if he does that) is the most disrespectful to me lol. Other than that, just about any of the Created custom animations.

Most disrespectful are the meaningless-early-game-388-ft-solo-shot-wall-scrapers that some hit the replay button for.

@greenbuk75 said in Silver Level 1:

@D27J said in Silver Level 1:

@greenbuk75 said in Silver Level 1:

@D27J said in Silver Level 1:

Bronze lvl 90.

C- Created (just 15 online innings from 89)
1B Helton-91
2B Edwards-84
3B Longo-85
SS Mondesi-78
LF Grandy/Stanton
CF Trout
RF Mantle-96

Once Silver it's either pick Larkin then use stubs (currently 45K) to replace Mantle w/ Judge... or pick Reggie and buy Rollins. Only hesitation w/ Larkin is I'd like another lefty (or switch) in the lineup.

CAP at short is better since arod and tulo don't exist, we actually have great catchers now unlike MLB 16

True, but the only C I'd prefer to use is Rutchman.

Pudge, Piazza, biggio etc etc all here or otw

I hear ya. Crushing it w/ CAP rn so may wait a while on C. Really wanna play against someone who has Rollins or Reggie to see how they are.

Looking at Reggie's card all googly-eyed... seems like he can miss balls and still hit em 500 ft lol.

@JProGaming27 said in Catcher 89 overall CAP selection:

Literally made a video about this just last night. It shows you the exact 89 Catcher with the best equipment currently, for all 3 focus (Contact, Power, Balanced). Also shows price breakdown, looking at 257k give or take, for all diamond equipment.

https://youtu.be/bpnnKt6W4JU

Great breakdown in vid... very informative

Went 12/12 grinding ALW to finish locking in Ohtani & Correa. Not some crazy accomplishment or anything but I'm only posting this bc Showdown's been the biggest Pain-in-the-A** for me in general. Took about 50 attempts between ALE (for Snell) & ALW. Haven't tried other divisions yet, but I'm guessing ALW is probably the easiest to go undefeated once you've gotten past Ohtani unscathed and loaded up with the Trouts, Rendons, Olsons, Altuves, etc.

Just felt good facing final boss Verlander needing only 1 run lol... always seemed to wind up needing 6+ before I was able to put it all together w/ proper lineup/perk structuring.

just sharing