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It’s unbearable. Not to mention the cooldown penalty you get if you decide waiting in the freeze off is not worth your time.

Bit late to this post, but I’d be willing to bet that anyone who has replied to this post will be purchasing MLB 22 for sure. If people really are serious about boycotting the next game, they probably aren’t spending their time on the Community Forums for a game that was released nine months ago. The people that are seriously done with MLBTS never saw this post.

The way I see it, whether you think a high diamond Jeter deserves it or not, he will definitely have some juiced attributes when it comes to power, fielding, and speed. SDS would not go through the troubles of acquiring Jeter’s rights to put into the game just to give his card lackluster attributes, especially with how popular a player he is. No way his card would have common defense or offensive attributes similar to Alan Trammell like some of you are claiming.

Thanks all who chimed in and helped on this issue. I submitted a bug report to SDS. Maybe just maybe something will come of it lol

@limitlessrage__psn said in Ballplayer in DD:

I have a diamond hawk fully leveled up. How do i check to see if my guy has diamond fielding at SS?

In theory, as long as you have 90+ fielding, you will have diamond fielding. You will see the diamond shield icon under your ballplayer while in game. However, this seems to be glitched in Diamond Dynasty for ballplayers.

@wargazsem-_mlbts said in Ballplayer in DD:

From reddit and The Hawk is SS in DD.

https://www.reddit.com/r/MLBTheShow/comments/n1utii/comprehensive_guide_to_rttsdd_ballplayer_cap/?sort=new

Sparkplug

Bronze - Sparkplug - 2B

Silver - Slugging Sparkplug LF - Speedy Sparkplug - SS - Slick Sparkplug CF

Slugging Sparkplug leads to Gold - The Tool Shed LF and The Hawk SS

Speedy Sparkplug leads to Gold - Rawhide 2B and The Spoke CF

Slick Sparkplug leads to Gold - The Dewey RF and The Dart CF

Slugger

Bronze - Slugger - 1B

Silver - Sparking Slugger 1B - Speedy Slugger - LF - Slick Slugger 3B

Sparking Slugger leads to Gold - The Duke LF and Crime Dog 3B

Speedy Slugger leads to Gold - El Ambusador LF and El Nino CF

Slick Slugger leads to Gold - Yo Adrian 3B and The Showboat 3B

Speedster

Bronze - Speedster - CF

Silver - Sparking Speedster 2B - Slugging Speedster - LF - Slick Speedster CF

Sparking Speedster leads to Gold - Cool Papa CF and Man of Steel LF

Slugging Speedster leads to Gold - Sheff RF and The Winny LF

Slick Speedster leads to Gold - The Werth LF and The Lark SS

Slick Fielding

Bronze - Slick Fielding - C

Silver - Sparking Slickster SS - Slugging Slickster - 3B - Speedy Slickster CF

Sparking Slickster leads to Gold - The Wizard SS and The Mechanical Man SS

Slugging Slickster leads to Gold - Ironman 3B and El Mago SS

Speedy Slickster leads to Gold - The Belli CF and The Fly Chaser 2B

So as we can see there are some positions that do not have a high tier primary which is incredibly odd. Also, you only want to be playing your ballplayer at his primary position in DD, or he will get out of position animations which is also stupid, not sure if this is intended or not. Below is a cleaned up view of all positions and their Gold/Diamond tier archetypes:

Catcher (0) - NONE

First Base (0) - NONE

Second Base (2) - Rawhide/The Fly Chaser

Third Base (4) - Crime Dog/Yo Adrian/The Showboat/Ironman

Shortstop (5) - The Hawk/The Lark/The Wizard/The Mechanical Man/El Mago

Left Field (6) - The Tool Shed/The Duke/El Ambusador/Man of Steel/The Winny/The Werth

Center Field (5) - The Spoke/The Dart/El Nino/Cool Papa/The Belli

Right Field (2) - The Dewey/Sheff

Below are the boosts each archetype gives at GOLD. Diamond will increase the main ones a little bit more. The below displays boosts in this specific order - Contact/Vision, Power/Arm, Speed/Stealing, Fielding/Acc/Reac

Rawhide - (+38)(+10)(+30)(+20)

The Fly Chaser - (+20)(+10)(+30)(+42)

Crime Dog - (+24)(+36)(+10)(+15)

Yo Adrian - (+15)(+36)(+10)(+25)

The Showboat - (+5)(+36)(+20)(+25)

Ironman - (+15)(+24)(+10)(+42)

The Hawk - (+38)(+20)(+10)(+20)

The Lark - (+20)(+10)(+46)(+30)

The Wizard - (+26)(+10)(+20)(+42)

The Mechanical Man - (+26)(+14)(+10)(+42)

El Mago - (+10)(+24)(+20)(+42)

The Tool Shed - (+38)(+20)(+15)(+10)

The Duke - (+24)(+36)(+20)(+10)

El Ambusador - (+15)(+36)(+30)(+10)

Man of Steel - (+30)(+15)(+49)(+10)

The Winny - (+10)(+24)(+46)(+20)

The Werth - (+10)(+15)(+46)(+32)

The Spoke - (+38)(+15)(+30)(+10)

The Dart - (+38)(+10)(+15)(+26)

El Nino - (+5)(+36)(+30)(+20)

Cool Papa - (+30)(+10)(+46)(+20)

The Belli - (+10)(+18)(+30)(+42)

The Dewey - (+38)(+15)(+10)(+26)

Sheff - (+20)(+26)(+46)(+10)

Great find!

@rabid55wolverine said in Ballplayer in DD:

So looking at the hawk archetype, I was wrong, it is listed as primary shortstop. The tool shed one that comes with it at the same time you get the hawk is the one that is for left field so I have no idea why you are not a diamond shortstop.

It seems as though when I put it into the line up, it reads as a secondary position without showing it on the line up screen and removes fielding from the build to the same as if you had the player in a secondary position. I never even noticed it before.

I would submit a bug report although I doubt anything comes of it, this whole rtts and dd player is so messed up this year.

So when you put your ballplayer with the hawk archetype into your lineup at SS, it reads it as a secondary position? That must be what’s happening to my ballplayer as well. I’ll see what comes of it if I submit a ticket, however I’m still waiting on a response for the ticket I submitted regarding my missing Dennis Eckersley from the A’s collection lol

@buddyhightower_xbl said in Ballplayer in DD:

@willthethrill_99 said in Ballplayer in DD:

@buddyhightower_xbl said in Ballplayer in DD:

@willthethrill_99 said in Ballplayer in DD:

@rabid55wolverine said in Ballplayer in DD:

@willthethrill_99 said in Ballplayer in DD:

@rabid55wolverine said in Ballplayer in DD:

The other thing I'll say that just because your guy is a short stop in road to the Show doesn't mean he is primary short stop in DD. It's whatever the archetype states. In rtts it's what position you decide. It's different for both

That’s just the thing though. In Diamond Dynasty, my player is a primary SS. That’s why I do not understand why he has the gold shield instead of the diamond shield.

Like I said, in DD the hawk is a primary left field and everything else is secondary. Unless I'm wrong on that but I'm pretty sure it is. Then you can't have a ss primary with that archetype. Do you have a pic of the archetype that says you are a ss primary with that archetype in dd?

Not calling you a liar, just trying to help

No worries, I know you’re just trying to help. I’m not sure how to post an image, but I’m 99.9% sure my player is a primary SS with diamond “the hawk” archetype. I will say, as I was grinding this archetype up, it goes from spark plug, slugging spark plug, gold the hawk, and diamond the hawk. When I was a slugging spark plug (which was the silver archetype) my primary position was LF in Diamond Dynasty. However, For both the gold and diamond “the hawk” it is a primary SS in DD

My SS went from Sparkplug - speedy sparkplug - I think gold hawk is next.
SS is my secondary position.

My SP went: Painter - something painter - gold professor - diamond professor.

Is yours a secondary SS at the speedy spark plug? When I had my silver archetype, mine was slugging spark plug, and that build had LF primary. However, once I got gold hawk, it changed to SS primary.

Well speedy sparkplug was SS but it just led to Gold Rawhide and that's 2cd base. This sux, I just want my diamond level SS. What did you start with at bronze?

I started with Spark Plug, but I chose Slugging Spark Plug which was a primary LF. However, it led to gold “the hawk” which was primary SS. It says my diamond “the hawk” is also primary SS, which is why I was confused as to why I didn’t have the diamond fielding shield at SS when my player had 90 fielding.

@buddyhightower_xbl said in Ballplayer in DD:

@willthethrill_99 said in Ballplayer in DD:

@rabid55wolverine said in Ballplayer in DD:

@willthethrill_99 said in Ballplayer in DD:

@rabid55wolverine said in Ballplayer in DD:

The other thing I'll say that just because your guy is a short stop in road to the Show doesn't mean he is primary short stop in DD. It's whatever the archetype states. In rtts it's what position you decide. It's different for both

That’s just the thing though. In Diamond Dynasty, my player is a primary SS. That’s why I do not understand why he has the gold shield instead of the diamond shield.

Like I said, in DD the hawk is a primary left field and everything else is secondary. Unless I'm wrong on that but I'm pretty sure it is. Then you can't have a ss primary with that archetype. Do you have a pic of the archetype that says you are a ss primary with that archetype in dd?

Not calling you a liar, just trying to help

No worries, I know you’re just trying to help. I’m not sure how to post an image, but I’m 99.9% sure my player is a primary SS with diamond “the hawk” archetype. I will say, as I was grinding this archetype up, it goes from spark plug, slugging spark plug, gold the hawk, and diamond the hawk. When I was a slugging spark plug (which was the silver archetype) my primary position was LF in Diamond Dynasty. However, For both the gold and diamond “the hawk” it is a primary SS in DD

My SS went from Sparkplug - speedy sparkplug - I think gold hawk is next.
SS is my secondary position.

My SP went: Painter - something painter - gold professor - diamond professor.

Is yours a secondary SS at the speedy spark plug? When I had my silver archetype, mine was slugging spark plug, and that build had LF primary. However, once I got gold hawk, it changed to SS primary.

@rabid55wolverine said in Ballplayer in DD:

@willthethrill_99 said in Ballplayer in DD:

@rabid55wolverine said in Ballplayer in DD:

@willthethrill_99 said in Ballplayer in DD:

@rabid55wolverine said in Ballplayer in DD:

The other thing I'll say that just because your guy is a short stop in road to the Show doesn't mean he is primary short stop in DD. It's whatever the archetype states. In rtts it's what position you decide. It's different for both

That’s just the thing though. In Diamond Dynasty, my player is a primary SS. That’s why I do not understand why he has the gold shield instead of the diamond shield.

Like I said, in DD the hawk is a primary left field and everything else is secondary. Unless I'm wrong on that but I'm pretty sure it is. Then you can't have a ss primary with that archetype. Do you have a pic of the archetype that says you are a ss primary with that archetype in dd?

Not calling you a liar, just trying to help

No worries, I know you’re just trying to help. I’m not sure how to post an image, but I’m 99.9% sure my player is a primary SS with diamond “the hawk” archetype. I will say, as I was grinding this archetype up, it goes from spark plug, slugging spark plug, gold the hawk, and diamond the hawk. When I was a slugging spark plug (which was the silver archetype) my primary position was LF in Diamond Dynasty. However, For both the gold and diamond “the hawk” it is a primary SS in DD

Hmm, I'll have to take a look at mine when I'm at home. I was going off of memory so I dont remember 100%. I thought for sure it was LF primary. I'll look later tonight. If that is the case and it's SS primary, it should for sure be diamond defense. It would not shock me at all if they messed it up, they have messed up so much with this new way of doing road to the Show and diamond dynasty player. I'll check soon and see if there is anything else I can help with

Yep I wouldn’t be surprised either if this was messed up by SDS. I just wanted to see if there was something I missed before I go and call this an error on their part. I appreciate you taking the time to help. Let me know what your primary is for yours. I did spark plug, slugging spark plug, gold hawk, and diamond hawk and my primary positions went 2B -> LF -> SS -> SS. If everyone else has diamond hawk and it’s a primary LF, maybe mine is glitched?

@rabid55wolverine said in Ballplayer in DD:

@willthethrill_99 said in Ballplayer in DD:

@rabid55wolverine said in Ballplayer in DD:

The other thing I'll say that just because your guy is a short stop in road to the Show doesn't mean he is primary short stop in DD. It's whatever the archetype states. In rtts it's what position you decide. It's different for both

That’s just the thing though. In Diamond Dynasty, my player is a primary SS. That’s why I do not understand why he has the gold shield instead of the diamond shield.

Like I said, in DD the hawk is a primary left field and everything else is secondary. Unless I'm wrong on that but I'm pretty sure it is. Then you can't have a ss primary with that archetype. Do you have a pic of the archetype that says you are a ss primary with that archetype in dd?

Not calling you a liar, just trying to help

No worries, I know you’re just trying to help. I’m not sure how to post an image, but I’m 99.9% sure my player is a primary SS with diamond “the hawk” archetype. I will say, as I was grinding this archetype up, it goes from spark plug, slugging spark plug, gold the hawk, and diamond the hawk. When I was a slugging spark plug (which was the silver archetype) my primary position was LF in Diamond Dynasty. However, For both the gold and diamond “the hawk” it is a primary SS in DD

@rabid55wolverine said in Ballplayer in DD:

@willthethrill_99 said in Ballplayer in DD:

@buddyhightower_xbl said in Ballplayer in DD:

@willthethrill_99 said in Ballplayer in DD:

@buddyhightower_xbl said in Ballplayer in DD:

@willthethrill_99 said in Ballplayer in DD:

@buddyhightower_xbl said in Ballplayer in DD:

You have to grind out the archetype to a diamond version, and then grind that archetype to max.
I have a SP with a diamond professor archetype who is level 91.

Yep I understand that. I have the diamond “The Hawk” archetype as well as 4 diamond perks equipped. Are you saying I need to max out the last program and get the diamond perk pack in order to receive my full stats?

What level is your player in RTTS

He’s an 86 OVR I think. I maxed out his fielding at the 50 attribute cap in RTTS.

Well, your overall comes from all your stats, not just fielding.
My level 91 has a diamond main archetype, 3 diamond perks, and 1 gold perk.
2 perks are for pitching and the other 2 are for hitting.
Having said all this, in DD he is a level 65 starting pitcher, however once in game if I check his stats there, they are as high as any other player I have on my squad.
Currently he is second in my rotation but i have to manually place him there.

Yeah I understand all of that. In RTTS, there is a 50 base attribute cap for your player. Through training and playing RTTS, you can’t exceed that 50 base attribute cap for your player. What I was saying is that I reached that attribute cap for fielding and I set everything else up with my archetype, equipment, and perks so that once I reached that cap, my player would have 90 fielding. Looking at my player card in DD, he does have 90 fielding, but I am playing with him right now in DD and he still has gold fielding at SS. Also, my player is not a two-way player. I decided to make my four perks go towards Power, Contact, and Fielding. Sorry for the confusion here, I should have been more specific in my initial post.

If youd read what I wrote, it explains it. In DD he is not a primary SS if you are using the hawk archetype

Where does it say “the hawk” is not a primary SS in DD? My diamond “the hawk” archetype says the preferred positions are “SS, C, 1B, 2B, 3B, SS, LF, CF, RF” not only does it list SS twice, but it lists SS first as well. Also, if I put my ballplayer in any other position other than SS in DD, it says “Secondary Pos” but it does not say that for SS. And this is all with my diamond “the hawk” archetype

@rabid55wolverine said in Ballplayer in DD:

The other thing I'll say that just because your guy is a short stop in road to the Show doesn't mean he is primary short stop in DD. It's whatever the archetype states. In rtts it's what position you decide. It's different for both

That’s just the thing though. In Diamond Dynasty, my player is a primary SS. That’s why I do not understand why he has the gold shield instead of the diamond shield.

@buddyhightower_xbl said in Ballplayer in DD:

@willthethrill_99 said in Ballplayer in DD:

@buddyhightower_xbl said in Ballplayer in DD:

@willthethrill_99 said in Ballplayer in DD:

@buddyhightower_xbl said in Ballplayer in DD:

You have to grind out the archetype to a diamond version, and then grind that archetype to max.
I have a SP with a diamond professor archetype who is level 91.

Yep I understand that. I have the diamond “The Hawk” archetype as well as 4 diamond perks equipped. Are you saying I need to max out the last program and get the diamond perk pack in order to receive my full stats?

What level is your player in RTTS

He’s an 86 OVR I think. I maxed out his fielding at the 50 attribute cap in RTTS.

Well, your overall comes from all your stats, not just fielding.
My level 91 has a diamond main archetype, 3 diamond perks, and 1 gold perk.
2 perks are for pitching and the other 2 are for hitting.
Having said all this, in DD he is a level 65 starting pitcher, however once in game if I check his stats there, they are as high as any other player I have on my squad.
Currently he is second in my rotation but i have to manually place him there.

Yeah I understand all of that. In RTTS, there is a 50 base attribute cap for your player. Through training and playing RTTS, you can’t exceed that 50 base attribute cap for your player. What I was saying is that I reached that attribute cap for fielding and I set everything else up with my archetype, equipment, and perks so that once I reached that cap, my player would have 90 fielding. Looking at my player card in DD, he does have 90 fielding, but I am playing with him right now in DD and he still has gold fielding at SS. Also, my player is not a two-way player. I decided to make my four perks go towards Power, Contact, and Fielding. Sorry for the confusion here, I should have been more specific in my initial post.

@buddyhightower_xbl said in Ballplayer in DD:

@willthethrill_99 said in Ballplayer in DD:

@buddyhightower_xbl said in Ballplayer in DD:

You have to grind out the archetype to a diamond version, and then grind that archetype to max.
I have a SP with a diamond professor archetype who is level 91.

Yep I understand that. I have the diamond “The Hawk” archetype as well as 4 diamond perks equipped. Are you saying I need to max out the last program and get the diamond perk pack in order to receive my full stats?

What level is your player in RTTS

He’s an 86 OVR I think. I maxed out his fielding at the 50 attribute cap in RTTS.

@buddyhightower_xbl said in Ballplayer in DD:

You have to grind out the archetype to a diamond version, and then grind that archetype to max.
I have a SP with a diamond professor archetype who is level 91.

Yep I understand that. I have the diamond “The Hawk” archetype as well as 4 diamond perks equipped. Are you saying I need to max out the last program and get the diamond perk pack in order to receive my full stats?

I’ve been working to grind up my ballplayer to use him in DD. I’ve gotten him to where he is a primary SS with 90 Fielding. However, he still has a gold shield instead of a diamond shield while I am using him at SS in DD. I’ve already maxed his fielding in RTTS and am not too keen on the idea of spending 20-30k on more diamond equipment to raise his fielding when 90 should be enough for diamond. Is there something I’m missing here?

@pdoss3_psn said in USA Conquest:

There may be a hidden tile. Check above the Mariners.

[censored] you were right. You’re a legend brother. Appreciate that.

So I’ve conquered each of the territories on the Nation of Baseball Conquest, but instead of giving me my 10 packs, it continues the conquest and is forcing me to reinforce again. There are no more territories on the map for me to conquer, but I haven’t been given my 10 packs and the conquest map has not reset itself like it normally does when you complete it.

Has this happened to anyone else?

I noticed a few days ago that my Dennis Eckersley from the A’s collection was missing from my inventory, as well as LS Matt Chapman, Laureano, and a few bronzes. Collection is still listed as complete though, and Eckersley is still in my bullpen on my main squad. However, if I make a new squad, I cannot put Eck into the pen. I’m assuming I cannot remove him from my bullpen on my main squad now without him disappearing from there.