MLB The Show 18 Franchise Discussion Thread

[PhilliesFan13]

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I am so ****ing pissed right now. Was playing a game earlier where I was up 7-0. Even had 2 homers including a grand slam. Paused game and put it in rest mode. Come back down a few minutes ago and my PS4 was turned off and I lost all that game progress. I could break something right now.

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[Bigwebb48]

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The Braves have repeated, defeating the Indians in 6 games, winning 4 in a row! Game 6 was an exciting game, the Braves got a run in the 1st inning on a tim beckham RBI single, scoring Manny Machado. It was nice to jump on Carlos Carrasco early, having Sean Manaea on the hill for the Braves he was spectacular. Fast forward to inning #5, Brett Phillips led off with a walk, followed by a base hit by Mike Zunino, a pop out by Lo Cain, then base hits by Machado and Freeman, plating 1 run, and up steps Khrush Davis, who gets a first pitch fastball and hits it 15 rows up for a grand slam to make it 6-0 Braves in inning number 5. Manaea was cruising along, until inning number 7, a lead off walk to Bradley Zimmer, followed by a double by Brandon Guyer, had me on the ropes a bit, so I began warming up Alex Colome and Sam Freeman, I ended up leaving Manaea in 1 batter too long as Jose Ramirez came up and hit a 3 Run HR to cut my lead in half, then colome came in and did damage control only allowing 1 more run. The Braves added an insurance run in the 9th on a Dansby Swanson RBI single plating Ozzie Albies, then 3 quick outs in the 9th and Braves repeated. Freddie Freeman was awarded World Series MVP with 3 HR's, 10 RBI and a 479 Batting Average! Now time to go hit the offseason and spring training!

[DJ]

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Finished the month of April in my Mets franchise with a 22-6 record. That's good for a 6-game lead over the Nationals in the N.L. East. Went on a 10-game winning streak in the middle of the month which obviously helped the record.

Starting pitching was incredibly dominant the first 3-4 turns through the rotation, but in the past week, pretty much all of my guys have had rough outings so things are starting to balance out. The same holds true for our hitting, as we were around .300 for a bit, but are now at .268 as a team.

Playing default All-Star with Directional Hitting, Classic Pitching and Auto Fielding/Manual Throw.

[LowerWolf]

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Tossed my second-ever no-hitter last night. It was bittersweet though. It would have been a perfect game, but Reyes reached on an "error" when Freeman fielded a grounder and ran to the dugout instead of first base. Sucks losing a perfect game to a glitch but still nice to get the no-no.

BTW, Teheran had been lit up his first four starts, then he throws a no-hitter. I love the variety.

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[countryboy]

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Tossed my second-ever no-hitter last night. It was bittersweet though. It would have been a perfect game, but Reyes reached on an "error" when Freeman fielded a grounder and ran to the dugout instead of first base. Sucks losing a perfect game to a glitch but still nice to get the no-no.

BTW, Teheran had been lit up his first four starts, then he throws a no-hitter. I love the variety.

Spoiler

Congrats man!

I've never thrown a no-hitter and never really flirted with one.

Sucks to lose your perfect game due to a glitch, but hopefully they will fix it, although that is of little comfort right now.

[BigOscar]

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10 games into my 2019 season, I realise I've messed up my signings and picked up some unrealistic deals (the Rays aren't signing AJ Pollock for example) so I've gone back to my backup save from the end of last year and been much more conservative. We didn't even offer anyone a deal until after everyone else had signed the players they wanted, allowing us to pick up players on cheap one year deals to cover until our prospects breakthrough.

Much happier with how the team looks now. I didn't even intend to get Beltre but Mike Napoli stunk the place out in Spring and Beltre had gone unsigned, so it seemed like a no brainer to let him end his HoF career on his own terms.

<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8"><link href="http://dynasties.operationsports.com/css/depth_chart.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css"></head><body><div id="depthchart"><div class="teamheader" style="background:#0F4871;">Tampa Bay Rays Depth Chart - 2019</div><div class="depthchart"><div id="catcher"><ul><li class="title">Catcher</li><li class="odd"><b>Jarrod Saltalamacchia</b></li><li class="even">Jesus Sucre</li></ul></div><div id="first_base"><ul><li class="title">First Base</li><li class="odd"><b>CJ Cron</b></li><li class="even">Adrien Beltre</li></ul></div><div id="second_base"><ul><li class="title">Second Base</li><li class="odd"><b>Joey Wendle</b></li><li class="even">Daniel Robertson</li><li class="odd">(Jung-ho Kang)</li></ul></div><div id="third_base"><ul><li class="title">Third Base</li><li class="odd"><b>Jung-ho Kang</b></li><li class="even">Adrien Beltre</li><li class="odd">Daniel Robertson</li></ul></div><div id="shortstop"><ul><li class="title">Shortstop</li><li class="odd"><b>Jose Reyes</b></li><li class="even">Daniel Robertson</li><li class="odd">(Jung-ho Kang)</li></ul></div><div id="left_field"><ul><li class="title">Left Field</li><li class="odd"><b>Mallex Smith</b></li><li class="even">Justin Williams</li><li class="odd">(Brandon Guyer)</li></ul></div><div id="center_field"><ul><li class="title">Center Field</li><li class="odd"><b>Travis Jankowski</b></li><li class="even">(Mallex Smith)</li></ul></div><div id="right_field"><ul><li class="title">Right Field</li><li class="odd"><b>Brandon Guyer</b></li><li class="even">Justin. Williams</li><li class="odd">(Dylan Couzens)</li></ul></div><div id="rightcol"><ul style="margin-bottom:5px;"><li class="title">Starting Pitcher</li><li class="odd"><b>Chris Archer</b></li><li class="even">Blake Snell</li><li class="odd">Jake Faria</li><li class="even">Yonny Chrininos</li><li class="odd">Brent Honeywell</li><li class="even">Jose De Leon</li></ul><ul style="margin-bottom:5px;"><li class="title">Relief Pitcher</li><li class="odd"><b>Jose De Leon</b></li><li class="even">Chaz Roe</li><li class="odd">Austin Pruitt</li><li class="even">Ryan Yarborough</li><li class="odd">Jamie Schultz</li><li class="even">Johnny Venters</li></ul><ul><li class="title">Closer</li><li class="odd"><b>Jose Alvarado</b></li></ul></div><div id="leftcol"><ul style="margin-bottom:5px;"><li class="title">Designated Hitter</li><li class="odd"><b>Dylan Couzens</b></li><li class="even">(CJ Cron)</li></ul></div></div></div></body></html>

[ktd1976]

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updated my Tigers franchise page.

http://www.dynastynationnetwork.com/dynasty.php?s=mlb&u=kdutch98

Just lost 2 of 3 to the Indians. Sitting at 51-16, 5.5 games ahead of those Indians. They just won't go away.

[Bushido]

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My Arizona Diamondbacks are 22-12, and are 2.0 games ahead of the San Diego Padres and Los Angeles Dodgers in the NL West.

We had fallen into an offensive slump, and had inconsistent pitching, which caused us to drop 4 out of 6 games at home. But have regained our momentum, by wining two out of three in Miami, and the first two in Atlanta.

Jose Enriquez, one of the players that I signed during the international signing period in 2018 (It's 2022) has blossomed into a dominant No.1 for my rotation. He currently has a 5-1 record with a 1.89 ERA.

He dominated the Braves, pitching a complete game, allowing no runs, one hit, and striking out 14 (All-Star pitching)

[BigOscar]

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Not a great start to the season, losing 13-2 to the Red Sox. Particularly rough for 3 error debutant Jung-ho Kang and it will take a long time for poor Ryan Yarborough's ERA to recover from the 8 earned runs he gave up in 3 innings of "relief". Adrien Beltre hit a homer though, so that's nice.

[countryboy]

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After losing 3 of 4 to the Reds in Cincinnati we got back into the win column by defeating arch rival Cubs 2-0 to open a 3 game weekend series. Michael Wacha got the win moving his record to 3-3 on the year. We called up John Brebbia to help a tired bullpen. He pitched to 3 batters without recording an out although he hit one batter, had Contreras get on with a swinging bunt, and then Bo Bichette got on thanks to Paul DeJong booting what should've been a routine double play ball. But we got out of the bases loaded no out jam for the win.

I have decided that after blowing our lead in the 8th against the Reds the day before that Zach Britton is no longer our setup man. Jordan Walden has been moved back into that role. Walden was removed from the setup role with the signing of Britton. After his hot start, Britton has been nothing but disappointing lately.

We are currently a 1/2 game behind the Reds in the Central and tied with the Brewers for 2nd place. The Cubs are 4th at 2 games back and the defending Central division champion Pirates are last, 5 games out.

[cubbies1744]

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updated my Tigers franchise page.

http://www.dynastynationnetwork.com/dynasty.php?s=mlb&u=kdutch98

Just lost 2 of 3 to the Indians. Sitting at 51-16, 5.5 games ahead of those Indians. They just won't go away.

I really enjoy ur site anyway u could maybe try to explain me how I could set one up? It would be greatly appreciated

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[DJ]

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Back to Citi Field after a 10-game road trip and we win a 1-0, 10-inning game on a Travis d'Arnaud walk-off home run!

Each time finished with five hits.

Seth Lugo and Anibal Sanchez were dealing, haha.

[BigOscar]

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After taking a shellacking in the first 2 games of the series 13-2, 12-2, Blake Snell managed to rebound for the team and we took the third game 2-1 before levelling the series with a 4-3 win on the back of a gem from Yonny Chirinos. The offence continued to struggle in the opener of the next series with the Twins, falling to a 4-2 defeat in Brent Honeywells debut.

All in all we're really struggling to get much offence going, despite seemingly hitting for an ok average (.250) and hitting 6 homers as a team. We just don't seem to be stringing hits and walks together at the moment but that surely has to turn around soon. Veterans Beltre, Salty and Kang have all got off to a fantastic offensive start to their careers here (the less said about Kangs 4 errors in 5 games the better).

[ktd1976]

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I really enjoy ur site anyway u could maybe try to explain me how I could set one up? It would be greatly appreciated

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Yes. Go to dynastynationnetwork.com and sign up for a page (it is 100% free)

Go to your Admin Control Page (Admin CP) from there, you will see a bar at the top with these options...
Admin CP, Livestream, Sidebar, Roster, Schedule, Transactions, Custom Pages, and Archives.

Click on any one of these, and it will take you to a different area. Schedule is where you put in your games. And then later, where you go to update information such as who won, and the box scores, etc. Roster is where you put in your roster. Sidebar allows you to set up what you see on the right hand side of the screen, such as the standings, etc.

You can put in as much, or as little information as you want to. For my videos, after games are completed, I simply stream the highlight video to Youtube, then embed it into an article.

For the Box scores, I use the table generators at this site.

https://dynasties.operationsports.com/index.php

Any other questions, feel free to send me a private message, and I will help in any way I can.

[countryboy]

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Just lost a 17 inning marathon to the Cubs. Not only did we lose the game, but we lost Randal Grichuk to the 10 Day DL due to an injured shoulder. Jeremy Hazelbaker will be called up in his place. Good audition for Hazelbaker for 10 days as we see what we are going to do roster wise going forward.

Rubber match of series with Lance Lynn squaring off against Jon Lester.