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Sony left them at Di ck's and Sports Academy, they realized they can't afford them.

This is why God made gatorade bottles. Racecar drivers do it, so can you.

I wish they would go with voice actors in a two man booth, get someone committed to plenty of updates and can professionally read a script. As good as Boog and Singleton are IRL they suck at voice acting.

@UncleRico420266_XBL

@UncleRico420266_XBL said:

So I found out that the reason so many coaches and managers are missing from MLB The Show 26 is because the MLBPA (the players' union) officially cut off their licensing program in late 2024.
Before this change, coaches and managers were part of a "group license" handled by the union. They used to get annual checks—roughly $50,000 each—just to have their names and faces in the game. However, due to tax and legal issues, the union stopped those payments and ended the group deal.
MLB The Show 25 (last year) was likely safe because the contracts for that game were signed and locked in before the cutoff. But for MLB The Show 26, the developers (Sony/SDS) no longer had a "one-stop shop" to buy everyone's rights. Since they’d now have to negotiate with hundreds of coaches individually, they simply replaced about half the league with generic, fake models instead.
Also the reason you still see guys like Stephen Vogt, Kevin Cash, and Terry Francona is that they are former players. Sony likely already owns their rights through separate "Legend" or retired player contracts, so they can keep them in the game easily. But for others like Aaron Boone, if a separate individual deal isn't reached, they get swapped out for a generic placeholder. I hope this makes sense and clears the confusion.

Isn't Boone a former player?
They've always had trouble getting coaches in , too much turnover every year and too many coaches to reach out to and too little time to do it. I still believe any manager who wanted to be in would. But really, what's their motivation, being in a video game is the lowest of low priorities for any manager. With no simple way for Sony to do it any longer, Boone wasn't about to do any unnecessary extra work.
And while every past year they always had a lot of managers in, there was always 1 or 2 missing. The best thing Sony could do is go with all fake coaches and managers and completely editable.

@braves137_PSN said:

Is there even a 6 pitch arsenal?

Right, they got to figure out how to get it to 6 before they even begin to think about 7.

Also, 6, 7!

@jake98833_PSN said:

@x2Blaze4221_XBL said in Stop the inappropriate images in the logo vault!!!!!:

There is a problem with inappropriate images appearing on the jerseys of the teams I play online. We should get this fixed because nobody wants to see inappropriate content on the jerseys. Please fix this immediately it can and will cause problems. Thanks you.

I bet that if they keep it up that Sony/SDS will get fed up and only give us generic logos in future installments

This is the logical conclusion to where we're headed.
And the reason why we can't have nice things.

@That70s_Gamer_PSN said:

Must be an Xbox thing, I have had zero crashes on PS5

Same here, no problems.

Time for Sony to drop Nike and Jordan if they don't wanna play ball.

Screw EA and 2K making another baseball game. I want to see what OOTP can do with a console game thats not text only.

Taylor Ward, he's overrated. Dunno how this dude hit 35 plus homers a year ago.

Yes , san diego studio needs to rework the new pop time attribute formula. It works in tandem with catcher arm strength and they really neeed to rework both formulas. They don't jibe well together .

You've never been able to turn confidence off, only the ability to turn the meter off that shows you the pitchers confidence. And yes, you can still cut the meter off in 26. I did the first day as I do every year.

Best money I've spent all year. One man's junk is another ones treasure. I'm enjoying this years game the most since MLB 20.

I cut 'em all off for right now. I'll cut 'em back on eventually but for the foreseeable future I prefer quiet when I'm heavy in the menu's thinking.

DD was boring right from jump street twelve years ago. Its fine for a side hustle but it's too much fluff to be a main course. I like cotton candy but I don't want it every day. Give me RTTS and Franchise for meat-and-potatoes.

I'm not even positive they needed pop times. I know it takes into account how fast a catcher transfers ball from glove to hand but Arm Strength took care of that. Infielders and outfielders transfer the ball from glove to hand but don't need pop times. Realmuto is the real deal but his kind are few and far between. If pop times are going to be used SDS needs a better formula for it and Catcher Arm strength too.

@XxSoLiSxX_PSN said:

This sort of reminds me of NBA 2k, when i was saving my custom jump shot it was a modified version of Rudy (lastnameghey) and when i named it his actual name it did the same thing to me.

Makes me wonder if some peoples on the roster's names are flagging even thou its their IRL names hah

Absolutely what's happening. Di ck Allen comes to mind.

I liked the old sleeves but I like these too. This game needed something fresh, otherwise I would have just kept playing 25.

Pitcher caught a bullet but it only hit his head
Should have been a better shot and got him in the face.
I don't mind the sun sometimes.

@Christuffer9917_PSN said:

Me seeing these comments knowing that they are wrong about Griffin as some who saw the debut atbat.

I think the problem will be Pittsburgh not Griffin. Thankfully for him (and Skenes) he will be able to get out of ArmPitt eventually.