I like playing the moments, guess I love pain.

@bsmith4263_psn said in To offline players:

The fun for me is the nostalgia of card collecting and satisfying my need to accomplish missions.

This exactly for me as well. I chose to play online to get Clemente, but it's not my preference. I enjoy mission based content and the collecting of cards especially players I loved like Piazza.

As a man who has passed the mid-way point in life, I really don't feel like dealing with kids using all the exploits they see on youtube to win instead of playing the game the way it was meant to be played.

@lewisnadasurf1_psn said in Cmon man:

Player does something within the game limits. It’s not his fault. He can bunt all day if he wants too.

This is such a terrible take. So people should have no responsibility for their actions? 95% of the people play within the normal baseball rules and etiquette and then you run into these yahoos who mess it up for everyone but SDS is to blame. This is the same mentality that blames the gun when someone gets shot.

So SDS is supposed to lock the platform down so tightly that they can only do certain actions? Yeah, I am sure that would work out well and not cause the online experience to be 1000x worse than it is today when you can't bunt because of some glitch meant to prevent a user from bunting all day as you stated.

A search filter that allows you to eliminate no sell cards would be cool too!

@lewisnadasurf1_psn said in ASG Degrom Stamina:

By the time a pitcher gets to 110 he should be dead on his feet. You don’t see a complete game where the pitcher is not struggling for accuracy and speed by the end.

This is true of modern day pitchers because they aren't conditioned to throw more that 110-120 and are usually shut down once they pass 100.. However, if you go back into the 70's/80's and prior people would get into the 200's (Nolan Ryan) and go back into the 20's and there was a game where both pitchers threw over 300 pitches. I do remember Al Leiter throwing 160+ pitches in the late 80's/early 90's as well.

In my first attempt since posting this, I was able to hit 2 HR's in the first 2 AB's of the moment. Finally done.

Courtesy of a post from @SaveFarris_PSN back in October, he provided the first 7 innings and I added the rest:

1st:
Rook Fernando
MS Lofton
2H Piazza

2nd:
MS Lee Smith
Prime Bay
AS Mattingly

3rd:
Award Glaus
Sig Eck
MS Sizemore

4th:
MS Mathewson
FS Wander
Award Murray

5th:
MS Ryan
Sig Vlad Sr
Prime Morgan

6th:
MS Kemp
Sig Pedro
Awards Brett

7th:
MS Aaron
Sig Gwynn
FS Torkelson

8th
MS Sale
Awards Banks
MS Mays

9th
Sig Ruth
MS Gange
Awards Bench

10th
MS Pujols

@tmichae10_psn said in How many 9 Inning Games:

@lewisnadasurf1_psn said in How many 9 Inning Games:

If you strike out 20+ every game you’re looking at 20-25 games approx

This is simply not true….I’ve done this many times over and not ONE of my batters has made it to P5 in 20-25 games.

Fake news!!!

This thread is about starting pitching, not batters. I don't think anyone is claiming you can P0 to P5 a batter in 20-25 games.

I can't get to the online market on this site either. Says Error logging in.

I know this would be a really big long shot, but a 30/30 (3 times) Howard Johnson would be awesome.

@tonythetiger2k16 said in CAP Catcher:

Maximize all his attributes to the 50 cap by playing him. Earn the Diamond Archetype in RTTS by doing every path upgrading from Bronze to Silver to Gold & finally to Diamond. You also need to either pull from packs or buy in the market the 4 Diamond perks to suite you C's play style best. As well equip him with the best Diamond Gear which gives the most attribute gains where needed most. This all together is what will have him be a 94 to 96 Diamond.

Can you get a CAP to 99? I have my CAP at 95 now, just wondering if it pays to keep trying to improve him. Some stats are not at 50 yet, so wondering how bringing all stats to 50 will bring him.

Ah, I honestly just assumed they did like other players.

@khain24_psn said in Created Player?:

I will eventually. I tend to always bat him 5th too.

I am disappointed they took out the ability to level within DD this year though. One of the best parts about being able to use him during games (online/offline) was making progress towards a better ballplayer. Now I got to grind through RTTS on a boring, mindless grind a bunch to get him serviceable. I don't understand that decision tbh, why take away more ways to play/level?

I didn't use my CAP in DD last year. Are you saying you can't P5 your CAP this year?

Been playing the Show for years only started with DD last year. I pulled Trout once last year in one of those 90+ diamond packs. None this year. My best LS pull this year was a JRam before he went up 2 weeks ago. I did pull a Pujols in a Chase pack opening week.

@dbarmonstar_psn said in Favorite LS swing this year?:

@mubby_33_psn said in Favorite LS swing this year?:

JoRam and Harper for sure. Soto was also solid but I was better with Harper so Harper is still my go to lefty bat off the bench. Gold Will SMith was also a nice surprise. I'm assuming your on a budget or else I would suggest Tatis, Acuna and Trout, however, well worth the cost long term.

I can not hit with Acuna, and I like Turner and Story better than Tatis.

Last year I killed with the Tatis LS card, this year I am hitting under .250 with him. I hit much better with Turner and Lindor.

Yes, I believe it only gave you enough to get to Stage 2 and stopped there. There were threads on this last week about this and pretty sure that is what people were saying.

@jefersunsteelflx said in Created Player?:

@whiplash0013_psn said in Created Player?:

Yep, my CAP is a 95 3rd Basemen from the Mets of the 80's, Howard Johnson. He has 115+ contact and 125 power from both sides of the plate.

How long did it take? You got any tips?

The Grind is real, I probably put in over 30 hours since the game came out in ROTS grinding my player. I was already well into a season when my son told me some trick. He said there is some lineup/roster or something that you can use that makes the Phillies OP and the rest of the teams suck, so you always face lousy pitchers. I wanted my player on the Mets so wasn't interested. The only "cheat" I did was change the stadiums for all the minor league teams to Shippet, so all your AA and AAA games home and away are there. Felt like it made it much easer to hit HR's. Not sure if this actually helped, but just what I did. I left the pro stadiums alone because it was more fun for me, but I guess you could change them too.

Yep, my CAP is a 95 3rd Basemen from the Mets of the 80's, Howard Johnson. He has 115+ contact and 125 power from both sides of the plate.

I would love this too, but it would be 1987, 89 or 91, his 3 30/30 years. He wasn't 30/30 in 86. Ray Knight and Kevin Elster handled the vast majority of the 3B/SS duties in 86, so HoJo didn't get many starts. I think the 1989 campaign where he had 36 HR's and 41 SB's. He also won Silver Slugger and led the league in Runs. He is my favorite Baseball player of all time. I created a RTTS version of him and he is my DD starting 3B.

FOTF Lindor.