MLB The Show 18 Franchise Discussion Thread

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The Padres continue their off-season as Free Agency rolls along with the top tier of Free Agents now signed, leaving possible bargains on the market. In that mindset, the Padres made a few signings that could pay dividends at the major league level. The Padres bullpen was a disaster last season so the team is looking for all the help they can get and they have signed relievers Joe Kelly and Collin McHugh. Catcher has also been a weak spot for the team as light hitting defensive minded Austin Hedges projects as the starter. Evan Gattis has been signed to a 1 year deal for 4 million to platoon with Hedges and provide a bigger bat in that spot. Outfield is also a weak spot for the team as both corner outfielders Jose Pirela (.218) and Hunter Renfroe (.221) failed to hit for a consistent average. The team has a few young outfielders in 21-year old Rickey Atcho (78 OVR) and 19-year old Rodger Score (73) but they are in no rush to fast track them to the majors and stunt their development. Other than 1B Eric Hosmer, the infield is also in flux with open spots at 2B, SS and 3B as young stars Luis Urias, Fernando Tatis Jr, and Alfonzo Visperas projected to start the season in the minors. Freddy Galvis and Chase Headley are among the remaining FAs but the Padres have no interest in bringing either of them back. It appears Galvis will be on his way to Baltimore as he is in negotiations with the Orioles.

The team is exploring the trade market with infield options Cesar Hernandez, Didi Gregorius, Brandon Drury, Jed Lowrie, and Whit Merrifield seemingly available. Gregorius is of note as he appears to be out of a position going into a contract year which puts him on the block. The major signing of Manny Machado appears to lock him in as the next Yankees SS as Machado has stated he wants to play SS and not 3B. The Yankees 3B situation is also up in the air as the team signed Logan Forsythe to a 1 year deal for 3 million. This gives them a very crowded infield situation with Neil Walker, Didi, Machado, Drury, Gleyber, Torreyes and Tyler Wade.

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1/3 Season-ish update.

Background Reset:
Carry over year 4 Cubs

It has been a strange season but enjoyable. I typically never tinker with sliders but adjust difficulty based on performance.

Start of season settings:
Pitching - HOF
Batting -All Star

Pre release was way too easy to hit the ball. After around 4 or 5 games I moved up to legend hitting. We we hitting upper 300s but pitching wasn’t great. I think we started like 12-1. We do have the number 1 overall team.

Post patch:
I’m still on legend hitting and struggling hard but decide to stick it out until we’re not #1 in BA. This happened around the same time I fell all the way to .500 overall. Back at .500 I decided to go to all star hitting and pitching. I have a top 3 rotation and bullpen was was 26th in era. Pitching is more difficult this year and I didn’t lead the mlb in walks for once.

Probably 30-35 games in I decide my batting K’s are a bit too low and I’m playing terrible. Let’s try dynamic difficulty only for batting with 10 dynamic until I get to all star. I win maybe the first game and am pretty terrible for like 5 more games. I get close to all star but my K rate is getting way worse, about 70 less than the next best team. After analyzing, I realize it is way too easy to make poor contact and foul balls off. We also need more swings and misses. Plus, I don’t double enough (last).

Slider adjustment era. (Last 15-20 games)

I’ve kicked around this idea of dynamically changing the sliders each game based on stats where I lead or am in last. I slowly start to adjust key sliders for swings and misses one notch each game until I’m not in first or last. Then I’ll slowly move one notch back to default if not first or last.

So, to increase k’s I lowered contact, fouls, etc and increase the pitch speed. Pretty quickly I moved pitch speed to 10s. And have ended up with 0s for fouls and contact.

However since I’m last in doubles, I started increasing solid contact and eventually power, lowering fielding stats. The results have been decent. I’m slowly striking out more and 2nd is gaining (long way to go).

Double have slowly increased and I’m on the fringe where I’m teetering the sliders up and down depending on the game. Surprisingly, I’m still only 10th in homers as a team but Rizzo is almost at 30 but he has 99 power and hit 61 for me last year. I’m seeing decent results, lots of games I don’t get a ton of hits but I’m happy to have a good game occasionally.

Moving to all star pitching lowered my walk rate dramatically. I finally hit leading the lead for low in walks allowed and have been moving the sliders. Basically teetering back and fourth like with my doubles stats.

The game feels so much better now that I can make some solid hits but also strike out. We were around 3 games under .500 but have clawed back to a 32-27 record. Games have been super tight, fun, and tense. Unfortunately, the Cards who have been mediocre in my franchise made huge moves this offseason and are something ridiculous like 44-16. It’s going to be tough to catch them already. A lot of fun to see new blood, last two seasons it has been a huge rivalry with the Brewers. Last season after playing the Pirates late I predicated they would be a good team this year. They are a few games ahead of my despite McCutchen going to the Cards. I’m about to kickoff a 3 game series with them.

Roster:

C Fuentes (rule 5 last year)
1B Rizzo
2B Baez
SS Castro
3B Rendon
LF Scruggs (drafted)
CF Pollock
RF Soler

Bench
Fowler and some other scrubs

SP Lester
SP Matt Moore
SP Chris Sale (I accidentally had computer sign FAs on auto last off-season and computer signed him. I wasn’t happy and he has been terrible)
SP Arreita
SP Chris Tillman Signed him in offseason. He has been a gem at 6-2 but he has a 6 second release on meter grr

Pen Notables:
Tommy Hunter, Rex Brothers, Pedro Stroup, Neil Ramirez, and a generated top 50 prospect from the first year that has been hit or miss as a closer/setup man.

It’s been interesting and fun since most categories were around mid pack. Will Rizzo have a historic season? Will we catch the Cards or even sneak in a wild card? Will we strikeout and hit doubles? Will the pitching staff improve the elite level expected? Can’t wait for this to play out over the next 100 games.





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Finished the 2021 season with a record of 94-68 finished eight games ahead of the Cubs. The Phillies finished 93-69 on the year besting the Braves & Nationals by ten games.

The Diamondbacks finished 97-65 with the best record in the NL. The Dodgers & Rockies finished with the playoff spots in the NL.


In the AL the Yankees finished with a record of 96-66 winning the East. The Indians won the Central with a record of 85-77 the Mariners won the West with a record of 87-75 while Boston & the Angels won the wild card spots.


Domingo Santana won the MVP he hit 298 on the year with 43 homers and 127 RBI’s. Santana also won the Hank Aaron award. Orlando Arcia won the batting title as he hit 304 with 21 HR’s and 100 RBI’s.


Jonas Moin won rookie of the year as he finished 14-8 with a 2.94 ERA and 158 strikeouts. He also had a 1.02 WHIP he had six complete games as well as six shutouts on the year.


Boston & Colorado won there wild card games. Boston will be playing the Yankees while Colorado will face the Dodgers.


As for the other two series Seattle will face Cleveland while the Brewers will face the Phillies.


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The Brewers defeated the Phillies 3-0 in the NLDS. The Diamondbacks won there series 3-2 over the Rockies.


In the American League Boston defeated the Yankees 3-0 in the ALDS while Seattle would win there series 3-2 over the Indians to get to the ALCS.


Boston would defeat Seattle 4-3 in the ALCS while the Brewers would win 4-1 over the Diamondbacks in the NLCS.


But the World Series would gone down to a 4-1 series win for the Brewers. They lost game one of the series 5-0 to the Red Sox. But they would rally and win four in a row. The scores would be 3-0 in game two. 5-4 in game three 6-1 in game four and finally 2-1 in game five as Brent Suter would pitch seven innings giving up no runs while striking out five. Sale would also pitch seven innings but he would give up two runs while only striking out three.FB_IMG_1525147583837.jpg

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End of May - 2020

First 2 months of the season have been better than I thought they would. We sit at 27-32. 3rd place in the Central. 5.5 games behind the Tigers for first. We are 24-23 since April 9th after starting the season 3-9. We have lost 6 of our last 7 after winning 8 of 10 before that.

We are hitting .249/.328/.391. We have 223 runs (19th), 59 HR (T-19th), 86 doubles (T-24th) and 12 triples. (T-16th). We have been caught stealing 15 times. The lowest in the majors. But our 27 stolen bases is also the lowest in the majors.

Stats

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• Jorge Bonifacio - .285/.380/.500, 13 HR, 30 RBI
• Ryan O'Hearn - .278/.384/.478, 9 HR, 32 RBI
• Whit Merrifield - .254/.323/.395, 5 HR, 21 RBI
• Salvador Perez - .212/.287/.430, 12 HR, 32 RBI
• Cheslor Cuthbert - .270/.359/.354, 2 HR, 21 RBI
• Raul Mondesi - .259/.319/.392, 3 HR, 23 RBI
• Hunter Dozier - .257/. 307/.400, 3 HR, 12 RBI
• Bubba Starling - .234/.302/.332, 4 HR, 15 RBI
• Jorge Soler - .205/.279/.326, 4 HR, 21 RBI
• Alex Gordon - .214/.308/.293, 3 HR, 11 RBI
  
  
• Cam Gallagher - .294/.351/.324, 2 RBI
• Ramon Torres - .239/. 314/.348, 1 HR, 5 RBI

Bonifacio has picked up right where he left off last season. Must not be getting drug tested or something. Definitely didn't expect him to ever hit like this. Cheslor Cuthbert is back to being good again. Not hitting for much power but actually getting on base again this year. Meanwhile Salvy decided getting on base wasn't his thing after having his best offensive season last year. He is on pace to hit the most HR of his career though. Mondesi and Starling have struggled as of late but have been pretty good for most of the season. Jorge Soler continues to be non existent at the plate. Im not sure what to do with him at this point.

Our pitching has improved ever so slightly. We have a 4.34 ERA as a team. The back end of the rotation is the biggest reason its so high. Overall our starters have an ERA of 5.26 in 359.1 IP. Relievers have a 3.98 ERA in 167.1 IP. We are tied for 7th with 1 CG and tied for 17th with 3 shutouts. We have allowed 67 HR (18th) and 171 Walks (4th). And our 444 strikeouts is 25th in the majors.

Stats

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• Danny Duffy - 4-4, 2.91 ERA, 1.06 WHIP, 73 SO in 77.1 IP
• Foster Grifffin - 4-3, 4.09 ERA, 1.39 WHIP, 35 SO in 61.2 IP
• Jake Junis - 3-4, 4.87 EA, 1.36 WHIP, 43 SO in 61 IP
• A.H. Cole - 4-2, 4.53 ERA, 1.47 WHIP, 53 SO in 57.2 IP
• Zack Godley, 0-6, 6.14 ERA, 1.84 WHIP, 41 SO in 44 IP
• Jesse Hahn - 4-5, 5.46 ERA, 1.65 WHIP, 53 SO in 57.2 IP
  
  
• Kelvin Herrera, 12 SV, 3.86 ERAm 1.43 WHIP, 17 SO in 21 IP
• Seth Maness, 0-1, 3.63 ERA, 1.24 WHIP, 25 SO in 34.2 IP
• Andrew Edward, 3-0, 3.24 ERA, 1.44 WHIP, 21 SO in 25 IP
• Richard Lovelady, 1-2, 4.30 ERA, 1.26 WHIP, 23 SO in 23 IP
• Brandon Mauer, 2-2, 6.52 ERA, 1.83 WHIP, 24 SO in 29 IP
• Mauricio Cabrera, 0-1, 3.10 ERA, 1.13 WHIP, 25 SO in 20.1 IP
• Jake Thompson, 2-0, 1.88 ERA, 1.40 WHIP, 11 SO in 14.1 IP

Duffy has been great so far. Ha slightly lowered his BB/9 and has almost cut his HR/9 in half from 1.35 to .70. He is tied with Corey Kluber for 3rd in the AL with 2.2 WAR and 5th in the majors with Kluber and Aaron Nola.

Foster Griffin gave up 8 runs in 2.2 IP in his last start. Before that he had a 3.05 ERA in 59 IP. Easily the 2nd best starter so far on the team.

After starting with a 6 man rotation we gave everyone 5 starts and it came down to Zack Godley and Jesse Hahn. So we switched back to a 5 man alternated starts for them. Jesse Hahn ended up being the less ****ty option so he wont the permanent 5th spot. He then broke his hand and will miss the next 2 months or so. Nolan Watson was called up to take his place.

Really hope Jake Junis can get things figured out here soon. His FIP is 4.07 so we should see the ERA come down a bit. Him getting back to his 2018 form goes a long way in us being able to compete next season.

Jake Thompson hasnt gotten a lot innings. But he has been way above expectations so far. Hopefully this plan of bringing in rule 5 relievers keeps working.

Mauricio Cabrera was that guy last year and he was terrible. So far this year he has been very good. His BB/9 is 1.33 after being 5.96 last year. And his HR/9 has dropped from 2.78 to 1.33.

Brandon Mauer's time may be running out. There are a couple guys down in AAA who are playing well enough to deserve a call up. And Mauer has been our worst reliever so far. If we call up a reliever or a position guy he would be the odd man out.

Down in the minors we have started moving guys up from AA. SS Jim Albrecht was the first to move up. He was hitting .287/.327/.359 and Erick Mejia got injured opening up a spot in the infield. And Myles Evans followed him a week later. He was hitting .316/.409/.444 with 7 SB. And with Billy Burns performing terribly he was cut and Evans was promoted. It hasnt went so well for Albrecht so far. Hitting just .158/.229/.263 with a HR in 76 AB. Evans has hit .286/.423/.476 with 2 HR in 46 AB.

Mike Nikorak looks to be the next one to move up. He has a 2.85 ERA in 66.1 IP in AA. Nick Pratto hasnt gotten off to the start we would have hoped so he will spend a little more time down. He is hitting .230/.327/.359 with 6 HR.

Draft starts in 3 days. We will have the #2 pick behind the White Sox. 38 games left before the AS break. Half of them will be against the division. We are currently 11-13 against them. They are evenly split between home and away. We are 14-15 at home. 13-17 on the road. And 26 will be against teams at or over .500.

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Off-season 2021

These are just the free agents that were signed.

Aroldis Chapman signed four year 38.80 deal with the Royals. Miguel Sano signed six year 149.40 deal with the Phillies. Chris Devenski signed three year 20.40 deal with Dodgers.


Blue Jays sign Buster Posey one year 13.10 million. Braves sign Noah Syndergaard six years 130.80 million. Christian Yelich signs with Twins five years 62 million.


Diamondbacks sign Corey Seager ten years 237.7 million. Twins sign Carlos Correa eleven years 255.5 million.


Tyler Anderson signs with Giants three years 45.9 million. Alex Claudio signs with Cards three years 21.6 million. Dodgers sign Salvador Perez six years 96.6 million.


Francisco Lindor signs with Rockies six years 164.1 million. Byron Buxton signs with Giants five years 124.4 million. Trevor Story signs with Astros five years 81 million. Braves sign Wade Davis one year 5.3 million. Yankees sign Carlos Rondon four years 44.9 million. Giants sign Andrew Heaney three years 34.8 million.


White Sox sign Adam Liberatore one year 3.1 million. Twins sign Blake Parker one year 3.4 million. Cards sign Jonathan Lucroy one year 3.8 million. Cards sign Hector Rondon one year 2.4 million. Indians sign Alex Avilla one year 3.7 million. Astros sign Francisco Cervelli one year 2.4 million. Orioles sign Steven Matz three years 27.3 million. A’s sign Jake Arrieta one year 5.3 million.


Mariners sign Kelvin Herrera one year 3.7 million. Giants sign Wilmer Difo two years 4.2 million. Red Sox sign Austin Hedges one year 2.1 million. Angels sign Drew Promeranz one year 6.2 million.


Diamondbacks sign Delino DeShields Jr two years 12.4 million. Mariners sign Jace Peterson one year 4.1 million. Refs sign Kyle Seger one year 5.3 million.


Red Sox sign Chris Owings one year 5.3 million. Tigers sign Aaron Nola three years 27 million. Tigers sign Odell Judd four years 3.24 million. Cubs sign Jerad Eickhoff two years 8 million.


Mariners sign Tommy Pham one year 9.7 million. Indians sign Kyle Schwarber one year 2.7 million. Astros sign Jose Urena one year 3.2 million. Rays sign Matt Bush one year 2.1 million. Nationals sign Mike Leake one year 3.8 million. Cubs sign Tyson Ross one year 4.3 million.

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My current lineups & rotation for the 2022 season coming up. Looking forward to another great year. Hopefully we can get back to the world series.FB_IMG_1525153554103.jpgFB_IMG_1525153564393.jpgFB_IMG_1525153573762.jpgFB_IMG_1525153578427.jpgFB_IMG_1525153568912.jpg

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Split 4 in Arizona against the Diamondbacks. We are still 2 games out of first (Reds now the leading) as nobody in the NL Central is running away with it as we are all close to the .500 mark.

Nick Martini has been tearing the cover off of the ball since being called up a week or so ago. He is hitting over .400 with 2 homeruns and 10 RBI's in just 10 games of work. If he keeps this trend going he is going to force us to have to make a tough decision when Magnerius Sierra returns from the DL around the All-Star Break.

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I want opinons on this. Drives me insane MLB doesn't have a start today feature, so what I figured I could do is quick manage all the games up to today and get all the wins and loses correct. Get the standings correct. I would go through the season trying to get the standings as accurate as possible. Would I be wasting my time or has anyone else tried something similar to this?

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Also I want your feedback on this, how do you use your farm system's? Do you use AAA for veterans and top prospects to get the call up and AA for guys with high potential and with low overalls and guys with low overalls and low potential?

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Also I want your feedback on this, how do you use your farm system's? Do you use AAA for veterans and top prospects to get the call up and AA for guys with high potential and with low overalls and guys with low overalls and low potential?

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It's really about age for me and if I have two guys who are both really good prospects but also play the same position. For example.... I am playing a franchise with the Padres and I have two guys in the minors, both play SS who could both be MLB ready in the next couple of years. One is just a bit younger than the other so the younger one I have playing in AA and the other one I have in AAA. I want them both to get all the playing time they can do having them both in AAA would defeat the purpose because I'd have to choose which one to have in the lineup more. So it all depends on who YOU want to see at the MLB level faster and who you think it the more important prospect.

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It's really about age for me and if I have two guys who are both really good prospects but also play the same position. For example.... I am playing a franchise with the Padres and I have two guys in the minors, both play SS who could both be MLB ready in the next couple of years. One is just a bit younger than the other so the younger one I have playing in AA and the other one I have in AAA. I want them both to get all the playing time they can do having them both in AAA would defeat the purpose because I'd have to choose which one to have in the lineup more. So it all depends on who YOU want to see at the MLB level faster and who you think it the more important prospect.

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That's what I do when it comes to age and same position

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I want opinons on this. Drives me insane MLB doesn't have a start today feature, so what I figured I could do is quick manage all the games up to today and get all the wins and loses correct. Get the standings correct. I would go through the season trying to get the standings as accurate as possible. Would I be wasting my time or has anyone else tried something similar to this?

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