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So, honestly, I only play offline, so I can dictate my opposing pitchers more. I actually like batting left-handed, so my lineup is seven left hand and two switch hitters. Thus, my bench is:

Jackie Robinson
Chone Figgins
Johnny Bench
Jesus Made

I have every position covered at least twice (except Catcher), and it includes speed and right handers plus a couple switch hitters. Works very well for my game play. For only being pinched hitters, three of them are parallel III already and one of them is parallel IV. Most of my starting lineup is parallel V.

I run a pretty boring team, but I’m having fun with it!

Is all you’re looking at programs? Then yes. I guess if you’re only worried about one aspect of the game, substance will seem slim.

But, they released a new mini season and conquest map with the Murals program. And there’s NO way you finished those within 2 hours.

And sure, maybe I’m not as worried about it as others seem to be, but I just don’t get the content/substance complaints.

I’ve said before that I’m old enough to remember that for the same price we paid to get the Show this year, we paid to get sports games back in the 90’s, and what you got… you got…

The number one thing SDS needs to fix before they worry about any of these content complaints is the bugs. All of the content in the world is going to mask some of the glaring issues that they have right now.

Guys… the CPU starts their pitcher based on which pitcher slot you start. So if Al Leiter started three straight games, you started the same pitching slot three straight games.

@NotesOfJohn_PSN said:

@JDHalfrack_PSN Care to actually elaborate?

That’s just the setup of the mode. Can you imagine how much easier mini-seasons would be if not more only could you decide which starting pitcher the CPU was going to use, but they also had energy loss as well?! That’d be SOOOO cheese.

If we didn’t have access to a 2000-man farm system in mini-seasons, I could see them adding energy loss to CPU teams.

But when I’m allowed to pitch 35 different starting pitchers and 100 different bullpen guys if I wanted to, and the CPU is stuck with 13 total pitchers, then no…

The first isn’t a glitch.

They have “fake” card attributes for the storyline all the time. Not sure why.

Is this the same dude that crabs every time a guy is called up they aren’t immediately on the rosters with a fully implemented face scan within hours?

Good lord…

They have scheduled roster updates. They aren’t releasing a Patrick Bailey special edition roster.

Well, a lot depends on your settings, ballpark, etc.

I mean, last year I had a season where I cranked like 750 HRs in one season batting like .800. But I was cheesing the heck out of the whole thing.

@LHUBison58_XBL said:

Regardless of what they did and did not say, they are still making sure free cards are gilded diamonds while Chase pack cards are loaded. Case in point: 94 Harper has 125 DISC, 95 Griffey has 74. Hmmm, which one is free? And in case you say that’s a 94 to a 95 let’s pull in the Juan Soto boss card which is a 95. Juan has a 124 DISC.

I don’t disagree, but they’ve been doing that for years. I remember a post from like three years ago with some guy talking about using his own reading system to figure out what the best cards actually are because of the ratings hijinx of SDS.

Correct me if I’m wrong, but last year at the first roster update, didn’t they like artificially make a lot of live series players diamonds and that pisses a bunch of people off too? It basically lowered the chance of getting high diamonds in the packs. Something like that. Right?

I am 100% on board with the thought that SDS tankers with ratings and they aren’t really based on anything. But I’m just trying to figure out what’s more annoying: too many diamonds or too few.

I don’t know what to make of this. It definitely seems shady… ish…

However, I don’t think they ever made the promise that those ratings were being removed. Weren’t they just stating that they aren’t used in online play? I always took that to mean that they aren’t used and determining outcomes of a play, or hit, etc.

When you create a player, those values are still there. So it’s not like they are going out of their way to hide them.

I think all they ever promised was that they were removed from the screen because they aren’t used in online. I am more than happy to be proven wrong if someone can direct me to the exact commentary on this.

I don’t find the moments terrible, but I do find them annoying when it’s like “Jimmy Bats hit a homerun to send the crowd home happy. Recreate his at bat by sending one over the fence.”

But what they leave out is Jack the Pitcher hung a curveball to Jimmy Bats in real life but is now apparently Cy Young in my matchup.

How about this: I’ll recreate Jimmy Bats’ homerun if you recreate Jack the Pitcher’s pitches…

I was always under the impression that the first time a user either owned the card or used the card. It counted as “discovered“ or whatever. So buying a card would count as discovering it, and then if you sold it immediately and someone else who never owned it, bought it, they would discover it as well. Same with users drafting him in online formats.

I have no source for that. That’s just what I always thought was happening because of maybe something I heard a couple years ago?

@SiberiaTigerCub_PSN said:

What happened to free speech and expression? Yeah, that team name and uniform isn't nice, but I'd rather have that then the stuff the woke left wing pushes in video games. Did you see what the communist lefties did to that game called Dragon Age Veilguard?

There have been a lot… and I mean A LOT of absolutely ridiculous takes this year in the forums.

This one right here…. This is now #1.

Stupidest thing I’ve read in a long time on here, and this includes people still not understanding how pack odds work.

@platewelder_363_MLBTS said:

Do the majority of people really believe what SDS tells us?

Honestly, as far as the strike zone is concerned, I couldn’t care whether they’re telling us the truth or not. It’s been an overwhelmingly better change.

It is LITERALLY just a visual change. There’s not even an argument to have about it. Plus, the strike zone always disappeared as the pitch was being thrown. This was before the change too.

I’m not sure where you’re getting the “nearly every ball is a strike” from. I have plenty of balls thrown to me. In fact, since the new strike zone, I’ve probably doubled the amount of walks I’ve had.

@ApolloZ_99_MLBTS said:

tear4eddy_PSN it’s not the same. And I wasn’t complaining. It really doesn’t make sense to say they shrunk something and say it’s only a visual change. If you change the size it’s more than just a visual.

It’s literally just a visual change. The same balls are being called balls and the same strikes are being called strikes. Now the strike zone just actually lineups to what was already being called.

I LOVE the new strike zone, especially as a pitcher. I also feel it’s making me a better hitter too.

@GoozeFn_PSN said:

@JDHalfrack_PSN They also cut the rewards.

I was gonna say that too. But I was trying to keep it to just XP talk. But yeah, 3 bosses to two. More packs to fewer packs… and more worthless ones.

I mean, free is free, so I get the “let’s not complain about it” crowd, but they definitely cheapied out the XP path.

But weren’t innings (or seasons) like 1.25 million XP to get to the end? I can’t remember. So they cut XP in half, but then also cut requirements in half.

I could be misremembering that though.