Franchise mode wish list
1- Player Development: I believe the player development really needs to be changed perhaps adopt what madden does with development traits and integrate it with player potential as well. For example have common development, star, and elite. When prospects come up especially if their and A or B potential it’s annoying having a pitcher come up at around 24-25 and they post an ERA in the 5-6 range for the first 5 years of their career, it doesn’t make sense since they are already a highly touted prospect. It’s understood that there a many players that bust but it’s just an ongoing factor that the pitchers tend to always have elevated eras while playing franchise in the future years.
2- International Player pool
Every year on July 2nd is the international player pool and I think this would be a cool addition and would make franchise mode a lot more realistic. Every teams international player budget should be accurate according to the team and while trying to obtain these players, teams can Bid for the player signing rights. The pool could contain realistic players for the 2021 season then on generated players
3- Draft
Mlb should incorporate downloadable draft classes like 2k and madden to make it more realistic. Perhaps the draft classes could be the top 200 players ranked on pipeline then the rest could be auto generated players that wouldn’t go till the later rounds.
4- Relocation teams
There should be the option of having an alternate Jersey as every team in the mlb today has one except the Yankees.
5- Create a stadium
Many show fans have been waiting for this for years. Please make this happen. Would make team relocation a lot more realistic.
6- BB/9
According to YouTube franchise players that have experimented with it it’s apparent that this attribute is the main factor in pitchers development. I believe this attribute shouldn’t be as important as a pitcher could have 80 H/9, 80 HR/9, and 80 K/9 but if their BB/9 attribute is 40 that pitcher will have a 5-6 maybe even 7 era and I don’t think it’s realistic as playing franchise with a pitcher like Tyler Glasnow I have always seen him with and inflated era when he’s significantly better than that
7- Trades
Allow the option of having a 3 team player trade and allow franchise players to trade cash. Trade AI on the trade finder also needs to be more realistic as there are too many trades that go on throughout the league that would never happen in real life.
8- Prospect overalls
For players especially in the top 10 for mlb farm systems or close to big league players it’s hard when there’s a guy that could be crucial for the franchise but are only a 55 overall and 23 years old as by the time they would come up to the big league they would already be 28 and still only be around a 72 and probably not too much of a help to the big league club. I would just like to see players with higher potentials turning in better results at a younger age rather than starting to have good seasons when their close to their 30s