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Steve_OS · 02-19-2008, 10:26 AM

T.J. Cutini has posted an Inside the Numbers look at Major League Baseball 2K8.

"With less than a month before the release of MLB2K8, 2K Sports sent over a 5MB spreadsheet detailing every single rating for every single player included in this year’s game.

At first glance, the numbers seem to go right along with their real-life counterparts, but dig deeper and you’ll find a few discrepancies that the baseball fanatics will be scrambling to fix once the game is released. So let’s go around the horn (apologies to Tony Reali) and take a look at the overall ratings of some of baseball’s best (and worst)."

scooter300 · 02-19-2008, 12:21 PM

I agree with a lot of your intial observations. As a White Sox fan I almost choked when I saw they had Kendal rated higher than A.J. at catcher. I don't know how anyone can justify that mixup. As long as we can adjust the ratings it'll be fine.

Oh, and having Jeter as the second best shortstop....wayyyyy overrated.

NYJets · 02-19-2008, 12:54 PM

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	Oh, and having Jeter as the second best shortstop....wayyyyy overrated.

Incorrect

rock85 · 02-19-2008, 01:56 PM

Some off the top of my head
Posada should be higher
Mo IS still better than Wagner and Papelbon might be better than both
Becket is to low too(should be ahead of some of those other guys)
Dam i sound like a RedSox fan Will somebody shoot me NOW

bigfnjoe96 · 02-19-2008, 02:59 PM

Simply horrible.... When are they gonna get the RATINGS correct in this series?

CMH · 02-19-2008, 03:15 PM

I think they are just fine.

Actually, I think everyone's ratings should be lower.

mgoblue · 02-19-2008, 04:32 PM

Wow...someone apparently took a baseball bat to Justin Verlander...how is he not top 20, ahead of Liriano?

Anyone have info on the serious, career threatening injury Verlander must have suffered?

Saber · 02-19-2008, 04:33 PM

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	Incorrect

Jeter isn't a good defender. He doesn't get rated the 2nd best SS in baseball because he's a good contact hitter and of "intangibles". Rollins and Ramirez should both be higher than him.

On the same grounds, my favorite player Michael Young should be rated lower as well. While a threat to hit .310/15/90 with 10 SBs in any given season, he lacks range defensively.

02-19-2008, 10:26 AM	#1
Steve_OS Editor-in-Chief OVR: 77 Join Date: Jul 2002 Location: OS Eastern Office Posts: 31,663 Blog Entries: 556	Inside the Numbers of Major League Baseball 2K8 T.J. Cutini has posted an Inside the Numbers look at Major League Baseball 2K8. "With less than a month before the release of MLB2K8, 2K Sports sent over a 5MB spreadsheet detailing every single rating for every single player included in this year’s game. At first glance, the numbers seem to go right along with their real-life counterparts, but dig deeper and you’ll find a few discrepancies that the baseball fanatics will be scrambling to fix once the game is released. So let’s go around the horn (apologies to Tony Reali) and take a look at the overall ratings of some of baseball’s best (and worst)." Platform: Xbox 360 / PS2 / PS3 / Wii / PSP

02-19-2008, 12:21 PM	#2
scooter300 Rookie OVR: 2 Join Date: Feb 2003	Re: Inside the Numbers of Major League Baseball 2K8 I agree with a lot of your intial observations. As a White Sox fan I almost choked when I saw they had Kendal rated higher than A.J. at catcher. I don't know how anyone can justify that mixup. As long as we can adjust the ratings it'll be fine. Oh, and having Jeter as the second best shortstop....wayyyyy overrated.

02-19-2008, 01:56 PM	#4
rock85 MVP OVR: 17 Join Date: Jul 2002 Location: New Jersey	Re: Inside the Numbers of Major League Baseball 2K8 Some off the top of my head Posada should be higher Mo IS still better than Wagner and Papelbon might be better than both Becket is to low too(should be ahead of some of those other guys) Dam i sound like a RedSox fan Will somebody shoot me NOW

02-19-2008, 02:59 PM	#5
bigfnjoe96 Hall Of Fame OVR: 28 Join Date: Feb 2004 Location: Da Basement Posts: 11,413	Re: Inside the Numbers of Major League Baseball 2K8 Simply horrible.... When are they gonna get the RATINGS correct in this series?

02-19-2008, 03:15 PM	#6
CMH Making you famous OVR: 46 Join Date: Oct 2002 Location: Ormond Beach, FL Posts: 26,235 Blog Entries: 1	Re: Inside the Numbers of Major League Baseball 2K8 I think they are just fine. Actually, I think everyone's ratings should be lower. __________________ "It may well be that we spectators, who are not divinely gifted as athletes, are the only ones able to truly see, articulate and animate the experience of the gift we are denied. And that those who receive and act out the gift of athletic genius must, perforce, be blind and dumb about it -- and not because blindness and dumbness are the price of the gift, but because they are its essence." - David Foster Wallace "You'll not find more penny-wise/pound-foolish behavior than in Major League Baseball." - Rob Neyer

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02-19-2008, 04:32 PM	#7
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