Yermin Mercedes should be a lock for a diamond upgrade tomorrow.

As a new player this year, showdown is HORRID. It's absolutely pre-determined sometimes. Awful draft, awful perks, and the opposing team makes hall of fame legendary plays to steal hits and home runs. I can tell if it's a win or loss within 3 batters.

Other times, I can tell when it's being fair and can get a win (or come close).

The only way to even have a chance, and this only in the NON pre-determined games, is to sit there and waste time while the CPU throws pitch after pitch a mile out of the zone. What a waste of time. I expect that in normal games but not this mode.

This legit makes me want to uninstall the game and I love the game. This is all random number generator in this mode.

There's no way this is true. There are consistent good players that are really good every year. Go watch one of CBrev's streams, he almost always wins, I don't think I've EVER seen him lose although I'm sure it happens sometimes. If what you were saying was true, CBrev would win 50/50 or 75% of the time, not 99%.

I'm thinking of going with Griffey and Pedro Martinez.

Appreciate the replies, I'm new to the game and the FOMO is real in terms of getting a few players I really want. I have no problem playing and slowly building though, I'm still learning what's realistic in terms of expectations for this game. I know 2k really well, this is a new, and much better beast!

It's not free, game pass is double the cost of Xbox Live each year. For many, buying the game outright will be a better deal.

@allmustfall16 said in Will Felix Hernandez's Price Go Up Or Down?:

I think he goes up higher than he is now. But when/if these packs reappear at some point, then he will go down.

He’s really good though.

I agree, I just threw a 1 hitter with him and had 13 strikeouts. He is very dominant! They also got his look and neck tattoo correct also.

I love the devs and this game but how does Yermin Mercedes who literally has the #1 batting average in baseball, how is he a silver right now? He should easily be a 90+ diamond.

@icame2winthegame said in Showdown Makes Me Want To Uninstall This Game:

@mlbfan377_psn said in Showdown Makes Me Want To Uninstall This Game:

Love it, I went into the final game of Showdown 12-12 got 1 hit and lost. I'm stunned. This is beyond an evil game mode, wow.

For the love of a bunt my man.

I did many times. It was pre-programmed, nothing was going to allow me to win that. I was good enough to win every challenge before that so I knew what I was doing, this was just pure evil.

@kangbang8888_psn said in Showdown Makes Me Want To Uninstall This Game:

@mlbfan377_psn said in Showdown Makes Me Want To Uninstall This Game:

Love it, I went into the final game of Showdown 12-12 got 1 hit and lost. I'm stunned. This is beyond an evil game mode, wow.

Lmao [censored] not to sound like a jack@ss but wow that’s sad

I know right? The game mode is very sad and pre-programmed in many ways. I beat all the challenges leading up to the final and have no problem hitting extremely well. It's rigged.

@the_dragon1912 said in Why?:

Live series diamond pack will be out in an hour. That's what happens. Cards in specialty packs and 85-89 live series always end up at quicksell price. It's just a matter of when

Live Series 85-89 will never be quick sells. They are needed to complete collections so people will always need them which will keep their prices up.

@untchable704_psn said in Win / Win Leggggo!!!! (Flash Sale):

Did you get it? All those are so close to your buy prices now.

Lol. I can't believe people thought Trout would drop that low. I knew it wouldn't happen.

@doihearbossmusic said in Is there panic setting in right now with the market?:

Good let em, No more lame packs, I'm buying up the LSs

Same here, I'm buying the 90+ diamonds from the LS that are on sale in the market right now!

Do you guys think his price will go up or down because of the sale? Also, what's your prediction on diamond prices for Betts, Bellenger, Cole, etc?

I'm trying to decide whether to keep playing on my TV (in game mode) which is connected to an Xbox Series X. This TV is not 4k, the refresh rate is 60hz and the response time is 6.5ms.

Would a gaming monitor be easier and help make me a better hitter or would it not make that much of a difference? If it would make a huge difference I'd do it but I don't really want to unless it would be a big difference.

I guarantee you could put CBrev with a crappy team up against someone with collections and all 99's and unless that is one of the top players in the game, CBrev beats them 99% of the time with a bad team. If he can do it, anyone can.

Removing the innings grind would be a horrible decision. Many people won't touch showdown because it's so awful, they definitely need to keep the innings grind for TA.

Those people who aren't good with DeGrom are doing it wrong. I almost had a perfect game with him in my first game a pitched a 1 hitter in the next game. He is a dominant top 3 pitcher right now if you know how to use him.

Buy Acuna, he is just going to keep going UP in price all year. He's a high diamond gatekeeper.

@matt_42187_psn said in Anyone else a little annoyed by collections this year?:

@mrwonderful95 said in Anyone else a little annoyed by collections this year?:

To site an example:

Trout, Degrom and Acuna alone are close to 800,000 stubs. That’s basically $800 in cash unless you’re extremely lucky with pulls or you get 12 BR wins and get them as rewards. That’s just taking advantage of people IMHO, especially with the extremely low percentage of pulling diamonds out of packs. Seems a little greedy to me...

Just a week or two ago, it wasn’t even close to that. Trout was around 350K and Acuna was 150K. I’m sure they’ll come down in the next 2 weeks. Or at least I hope they do.

Come DOWN in 2 weeks? More likely they keep going up. They always go up throughout the year, I doubt they will ever be much lower than they are right now.