MLB The Show 18 Franchise Discussion Thread

[Assassin]

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June 2019 Update

Indians finish month three with a record of 50-35. We went 15-10 on the month our worst streak was a four game series loss to the Angels. We are still dealing with Carlos Carrasco being on the DL he has eleven days on the DL left. We did make a move and sign Charlie Morton when Carrasco went down. The move seems to be working out well for us.


We are 8.5 games up on the Royals who sit at 40-42. Below are stats for our top hitters.


Francisco Lindor=.332 14 HR 47 RBI 8 SB

Jose Ramirez=.289 11 HR 33 RBI 4 SB

Edwin Encarnacion=.288 19 HR 62 RBI 2 SB

Francisco Mejia=.283 10 HR 33 RBI 1 SB


Corey Kluber=11-2 123.1 innings pitched 128 strikeouts 1.82 ERA 0.88 WHIP

Trevor Bauer=9-3 109.2 innings pitched 115 strikeouts 3.12 ERA 1.12 WHIP

Jarlin Garcia=6-5 89.1 innings pitched 76 strikeouts 4.63 ERA 1.34 WHIP

Joe Ross=5-8 97.2 innings pitched 83 strikeouts 3.50 ERA 1.27 WHIP

Charlie Morton=3-4 44.1 innings pitched 45 strikeouts 3.86 ERA 1.40 WHIP

Cody Allen=1-1 25.2 innings pitched 33 strikeouts 1.75 ERA 1.13 WHIP 24 Saves


Prospect Reports


Eldridge McMillian=.258 average 12 HR 32 RBI 12 SB (62 games)

Ryan White=.263 average 6 HR 29 RBI 7 SB (49 games)

Ralph Lyles=1-2 24 saves 35 innings pitched 35 strikeouts 2.83 ERA 1.31 WHIP

Brandon Morales=.269 average 11 HR 40 RBI 22 SB(72 games)

Jared Valdez=9-3 102 innings pitched 71 strikeouts 1.94 ERA 1.02 WHIP

Luis Roberson=6-4 80 innings pitched 82 strikeouts 4.50 ERA 1.74 WHIP

Tom Griffith=1-0 32 innings pitched 31 strikeouts 0.84 ERA 0.69 WHIP 25 saves

The only big trades I have seen so far are as follows.

Yankees aquire third baseman Jeramy Ramos & center fielder Jimmy Campillo from Pirates for catcher Yasmani Grandal

Astros aquire Chi Chi Gonzalez from Rangers for center fielder Jake Marisnick

Marlins aquire right fielder Jay Bruce from Mets for first baseman Justin Bour

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[Assassin]

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July 2019 Update

Indians trade Joe Ross to Orioles for Richard Bieler. Pirates trade James Taillon to Braves for Ender Inciarte. Phillies trade Jake Arrieta to Royals for Jorge Soler & Jake Junis. Giants acquire Chris Archer from Rays for Ryder Jones Dylan Davis & Fletcher Wolf. Nationals acquire George Springer from Astros for Victor Robles & Kevin Gutierrez.


Indians finish the month of July 63-46. We are 13 games up on the Royals. Early in the month we traded Joe Ross to the Orioles as Carlos Carrasco was coming off the DL and we needed a left handed pitcher in our bullpen. We went 12-10 for the month of July thankfully we still have a decent lead in our division. Below are stats for the month.


Francisco Lindor=.313 18 HR 62 RBI 11SB

Lonnie Chisenhall=.297 13 HR 51 RBI 4 SB

Jason Kipnis=.287 8 HR 56 RBI 8 SB

Francisco Mejia=.284 11 HR 40 RBI 2 SB

Jose Ramirez=.277 14 HR 42 RBI 5 SB

Edwin Encarnacion=.266 23 HR 74 RBI 2 SB


Corey Kluber=12-3 156.1 innings pitched 167 strikeouts 2.25 ERA 0.94 WHIP

Trevor Bauer=11-5 136.1 innings pitched 146 strikeouts 3.43 ERA 1.24 WHIP

Carlos Carrasco=8-3 74 innings pitched 86 strikeouts 2.80 ERA 1.08 WHIP

Jarlin Garcia=8-7 111.2 innings pitched 91 strikeouts 4.59 ERA 1.32 WHIP

Charlie Norton=4-6 74 innings pitched 73 strikeouts 3.89 ERA 1.41 WHIP

Cody Allen=2-2 35 innings pitched 2.83 ERA 1.23 WHIP 30 saves


Prospect Reports


Eldridge McMillian=.256 average 15 HR 39 RBI 17 SB (82 games)

Ryan White=.245 average 10 HR 39 RBI 10 SB (71 games)

Ralph Lyles=1-3 44.1 innings pitched 46 strikeouts 2.23 ERA 1.17 WHIP 28 saves

Brandon Morales=.269 average 11 HR 40 RBI 22 SB(72 games)

Jared Valdez=0-1 4.1 innings pitched 1 strikeout 10.38 ERA 2.54 WHIP (recent call up)

Luis Roberson=7-6 108.1 innings pitched 121 strikeouts 4.40 ERA 1.72 WHIP

Tom Griffith=1-0 43 innings pitched 46 strikeouts 1.05 ERA 0.67 WHIP 36 saves


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[NolanRyansSnowmonkey]

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In my Rangers franchise, i had lost the first two games of the four game series -bad- against the Astros. I won the third game of the series and hoped for a split. I immediately was down 3-0 after two innings. They added another, then 2 more in the top of the 6th.

So i was down 6-0 going into the bottom of the 6th. And i only had 3 hits off of Cole.

Then, I walked with Deshields. Beltre doubled, making 6-1 Astros. Chirinos hit a single, then Choo singled on a beautiful soft line drive just over the first baseman's head, cutting the Astros lead to 4. Gallo then hits an easy two-hop double play ground ball to Altuve, that should have gotten them out of the inning.....but it goes through Altuve's legs. Another run scores, making it 6-3 Astros. Next, Guzman singles on a line drive to left. The left fielder misplayed the hop and it skips by him for the second error of the inning. 2 more runs score. Thy lead was cut to 1 and Astros led 6-5 going into the 7th. How quickly things can change.

In the 8th inning, they are still leading 6-5. Chirinos walked, and with 2 outs and Gallo up, with 2 strikes he sends a 2-run Bomb into the Porch to take the lead. 7-6 Rangers going into the 9th.

Then... the unthinkable.

My closer strikes out the leadoff guy. With 2 outs away from a series split, Altuve, protecting with 2 strikes, chops a 3-foot nubber in front of the plate and beats it out for a single. Correa, down two strikes, crushes a pitch to deep right-center. Deshields gives chase and misses it by an inch. The ball hits the wall and Deshields does too. But the angle of that wall sends the ball back toward the vacated centerfield. There is no one there. By the time the ball got back to the infield, Correa had given the Astros the lead back, with a 2-run, go-ahead inside-the-park home run in the 9th. Devestating.

But, never ever quit. I knew i needed to lock-in. Bottom of the 9th Mazara grounds out to Altuve to lead off the inning. Profar then draws a full-count walk off Giles. Deshields hits a possible ground ball double play to end the game, but, it was placed perfectly between SS and 3B. Bregman at third dives and knocks it down but has no play. And with two on in the bottom of the 9th, Odor, who was 0-for-14 on the series, smashes a line drive into the opposite field gap for a 2 run walk-off double. And i don't smoke but i think i need a cigarette.

[montgom24]

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Just curious, when you sim games, do you see that the Phillies and Braves aren't winning like in real life? And if so do you edit their top guys to make more of an impact and help them win like they have IRL? Just curious. Because I'm one who seems to restart franchises a lot and they are never a winning team and thought of doing this. Just curious if anybody has done anything similar.

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[Assassin]

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August 2019 Recap

Indians finish August 82-54 we are 16 games up on the Royals and are four games behind Boston for best record in the AL.

We went 19-8 in the month of August but we were forced to make some call ups as players were injured Charlie Morton spent two weeks on the DL forcing us to call up Shane Bieber from Triple A we put in the bullpen and started Danny Salazar in Morton's place. Bieber pitched four innings and had a 2.25 ERA and a 1.50 WHIP.

Also we were forced to call up Monte Harrison as Lonnie Chisenhall went down with a torn calf. Harrison would end up getting a few starts as Tyler Naquin would go down with a fractured arm as well. Both will spend the month of September on the DL Chisenhall will probably be back for the first round of the playoffs. Naquin won't return till later in the playoffs.


Francisco Lindor=.317 20 HR 76 RBI 13 SB

Lonnie Chisenhall=.303 14 HR 53 RBI 5 SB

Jason Kipnis=.264 8 HR 61 RBI 10 SB

Francisco Mejia=.273 16 HR 48 RBI 3 SB

Jose Ramirez=.278 20 HR 66 RBI 7 SB

Edwin Encarnacion=.264 29 HR 93 RBI 4 SB


Corey Kluber=16-5 203 innings pitched 208 strikeouts 2.31 ERA 0.98 WHIP

Trevor Bauer=15-6 171.2 innings pitched 178 strikeouts 3.20 ERA 1.24 WHIP

Carlos Carrasco=11-4 107 innings pitched 125 strikeouts 2.69 ERA 1.12 WHIP

Jarlin Garcia=9-7 143 innings pitched 118 strikeouts 4.22 ERA 1.34 WHIP

Charlie Norton=5-6 95 innings pitched 88 strikeouts 3.41 ERA 1.33 WHIP

Cody Allen=2-2 46 innings pitched 2.35 ERA 1.13 WHIP 40 saves


Prospect Reports


Eldridge McMillian=.258 average 18 HR 48 RBI 22 SB (104 games)

Ryan White=.273 average 18 HR 63 RBI 11 SB

Ralph Lyles=1-3 53.1 innings pitched 55 strikeouts 1.86 ERA 1.14 WHIP 37 saves

Brandon Morales=.266 average 14 HR 60 RBI 44 SB (121 games)

Jared Valdez=0-5 34.1 innings pitched 12 strikeouts 6.29 ERA 1.69 WHIP

Luis Roberson=8-8 129 innings pitched 136 strikeouts 4.95 ERA 1.77 WHIP

Tom Griffith=1-0 51.2 innings pitched 52 strikeouts 1.22 ERA 0.72 WHIP 42 saves

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Hey, abitoutside...to get your pictures in the spoiler tag you have to put them in between the spoiler codes. That's if you are putting them in via a web link. If you are uploading via tapatalk, it's always going to put them at the bottom of your post and you cant spoiler them.....

Nice month of May so far though!

P.S. the spoiler tag would look like this

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There are several free image hosting sites, the one I use for my photos I believe is imgbb.com pr something similar.

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I appreciate the help. I am trying to add screen shots from my pictures on my iPad. So when I tap the spoiler button and it gives me the spoiler things, the cursor is in between them on the same line and I try to attach the pic thru the manage attachment link......I will see if I can figure it out, I searched the forums but could not find anything on it.

[a bit outside]

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Just curious, when you sim games, do you see that the Phillies and Braves aren't winning like in real life? And if so do you edit their top guys to make more of an impact and help them win like they have IRL? Just curious. Because I'm one who seems to restart franchises a lot and they are never a winning team and thought of doing this. Just curious if anybody has done anything similar.

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In my world the Phillies are actually playing well, if you look at the standings I posted you will see some good teams doing bad, like the Angels for example. They have been hammered with injuries to key people....Trout, Ohtani and Skagg. It is just part of baseball and I let it play out. It’s your world, operate it how you wish.

[HozAndMoose]

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End of August - 2023

The end of the season is almost here. For some teams. We are 22-16 since the All Star Break. 73-60 and overall and we sit in first place in the division. The Tigers are 4.5 games back in 2nd with the Twins 5.5 back in 3rd. We went through a bit of a slump to start the 2nd half. From July 21st to August 6th we went 6-10 and lost 4 of 5 series. We were able to get things turned around though. 16-6 since. We have won 7 straight and 12 of our last 15.

Standings

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The offense has gotten just a little bit better. We are hitting .270/.340/.430 (5th, 2nd, 8th). We have hit 232 Doubles (7th), 21 Triples (21st) and 158 HR (15th). We have 474 Walks (9th), 1039 Strikeouts (4th), 95 SB (11th) and a .651 SB% (19th).

Stats

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• Jorge Soler - .263/.350/.445, 23 HR, 74 RBI
• Jorge Bonifacio - .264/.340/.437, 21 HR, 68 RBI
• Myles Evans - .274.,349.,408, 10 HR, 48 RBI
• Nick Pratto - .268/.342/.446, 20 HR, 76 RBI
• Jim Albrecht - .274/.330/.411, 11 HR, 50 RBI
• Raul Mondesi - .238/.297/.352, 6 HR, 42 RBI
• Salvador Perez - .278/.344/.462, 18 HR, 64 RBI
• Ryan O'Hearn - .278/.363/.480, 17 HR, 48 RBI
• Hunter Dozier - .283/.351/.452, 13 HR, 49 RBI
• Lorenzo Cain - .273/.338/.505, 11 HR, 39 RBI
• Cheslor Cuthbert - .272/.339/.407, 6 HR, 38 RBI
  
  
• Chesny Young - .340/.406/.432, 1 HR, 20 RBI
• Meibrys Viloria - .228/.300/.304, 1 HR, 9 RBI

The pitching has overall continued to get worse. But its really just a few guys making everyone look bad. Our ERA is 3.89 (10th), We have 4 Complete Games (6th), 7 Shutouts (23rd), 154 HR allowed (14th), 378 Walks allowed (2nd) and 1027 Strikeouts (26th).

Stats

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• Jake Junis - 10-6, 3.24 ERA, 1.15 WHIP, 113 SO in 166.2 IP
• Nolan Watson - 8-9, 4.04 ERA, 1.26 WHIP, 114 SO in 156 IP
• Jesse Hahn - 10-6, 3.51 ERA, 1.30 WHIP, 103 SO in 146.1 IP
• Aaron Nola - 11-5, 3.56 ERA, 1.32 WHIP, 136 SO in 149.1 IP
• Scott Blewett - 7-4, 4.20 ERA, 1.42 WHIP, 124 SO in 137 IP
• Shane Bieber - 2-2, 7.05 ERA, 1.57 WHIP, 55 SO in 67.2 IP
  
  
• Kyle Zimmer - 2.82 ERA, 1.32 WHIP, 76 SO in 73.1 IP
• Jose torres - 2.79 ERA, 1.13 WHIP, 49 SO in 61.1 IP
• Angel Diaz - 37 SV, 2.76 ERA, 1.23 WHIP, 62 SO in 45.2 IP
• Emilio Pagan - 5.12 ERA, 1.34 WHIP, 46 SO in 45.2 IP
• Freddy Morse - 4.44 ERA, 1.25 WHIP, 27 SO in 26.1 IP

We claimed Shane Bieber off waivers from the Indians in early July. He had a 7.18 ERA in 46.2 IP. We sent him down to AAA where he had a 3.03 ERA in 65 IP. His first start after being called up didnt go so well. 5 ER in 4 IP. His second start was much better. 2 ER in 6 IP. Foster Griffin was sent to AAA to make room. His ERA had climbed to 4.75.

Jake Jewell was sent down to AAA as well. His ERA was 4.63 in 35 IP. Kevin McCarthy was called up to replace him.

Prospects

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I need to start handling the minor league guys better. If I don't think they can help us this year I end up letting them sit where they are regardless of how good or bad they are.

Schedule

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29 Games left. 14 at home. 11 games against the Twins and Tigers. They are the only teams we face that are currently over .500. Things have been going extremely well. So i'm sure we will find some way to screw this up.

[FreyCWarren]

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Just bought MLB 18 yesterday. Carrying over my MLB 17 franchise.

I started my MLB 17 franchise a few months ago, played about 20 MLB games and some minor league games, simulated the rest but was constantly keeping track of organization needs such as call ups and optioning players and the draft and trades.

I am using the Braves. We finished the 2017 season 86-76, 1 game behind the Giants for the 2nd Wildcard spot. The Boston Red Sox ended up winning the WS in 7 games against the Cubs.

Acquired Sonny Gray at the all start break, trading Brandon Phillips and Lucas Sims. Nick MARKAKIS and Bartolo Colon were traded earlier in the seas on, acquiring Carter Capps.

Matt Kemp was traded in the off-season, in return we got Boshers from Twins to help our bullpen.

Freeman had a career high 37HR and 102 RBI.
Inciarte had a .287 with 8HR 53RBI
Albies was called up after Phillips trade, then got injured and missed thebrest of the season, he hit .201 with 4 2B in 60 at bats.

Swanson hit .258 with 8 HR and 42 RBI in full season of play.

Kemp had a 30HR season but hit .252 with a .301 OBP

Suzuki hit .299 with 18HR 61 RBI and an OBP of .380

Adonis Garcia hit .245 with 15HR, low OBP

Teheran finished the season 10-11 with a 3.44 ER
Gray finished 13-10 with a 3.11 ER
Folty ended 7-4 with a 2.88 ERA, missed a month and a half due to injury

In the offseason we acquired SP Jason Vargas, RP Francisco Rodriguez, OF/3B Lonnie Chisenhall, CF Fee for Blanco, 1B/3B Jose Bautista, 2B Aaron Hill, and much more depth players.

The draft which hapoened in June:
RD 1 (5) Henry Mueller (20) CP 69 OVR/94 POT
RD 2 (5) Will Kerr 3B (22) 71 OVR/88POT
RD 3 (5) Simon Erwin RF (22) 58 OVR/84 POT
RD 4 (5) Bob Payton 1B (19) 57 OVR/ 90 POT
RD 5 (5) Luis Marquis RP (21) 61 OVR/ 74 POT
RD 6 (5) Johnnie Mora C (19) 74 OVR/ 61 POT
RD 7 (5) Elmer Villenueva RP (21) 56 OVR/ 68 POT

I played a few spring training games in MLB 18 to get the feel for the game.

The MLB roster is set, and the starting lineup looks like this

CF Inciarte
2B Albies
1B Freeman
C Suzuki
RF Giles (Player no longer in MLBPA so i created his new name, Lucas Giles)
3B Chisenhall
LF Acuna Jr
SS Swanson

Reserves:
UT Sean Rodriguez
1B/3B Jose Bautista
CF Gregor Blanco
C Chris Stewart

Pitching Rotation
Teheran
Gray
Vargas
Folty
Wisler

Bullpen
Burnham (Formerly Kris Medlen)
Capps
Boshers
Akeel Morris
Francisco Rodriguez
AJ Minter
Rex Brothers
Jim Johnson

[flexbuffchest]

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I can't find the option anywhere, but is it possible to view minor league stats from previous seasons?

Also, when settings lineups without the DH how do you select a pitcher? So far I have to manually click the "auto fix lineups" before I'm able to sim. There has to be a better way. There isn't a pitcher available in the lineups to select

Finally, is there a way to see someone's potential after they've been drafted?

[kinsmen7]

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I can't find the option anywhere, but is it possible to view minor league stats from previous seasons?

Also, when settings lineups without the DH how do you select a pitcher? So far I have to manually click the "auto fix lineups" before I'm able to sim. There has to be a better way. There isn't a pitcher available in the lineups to select

Finally, is there a way to see someone's potential after they've been drafted?

-Unfortunately, no dice on checking minor league stats for previous seasons unfortunately.
-The pitcher shows up based on how your rotation is set up.
-You can check someones letter grade potential (I'm assuming that you know that already), but if you're looking for a number value, you can just go in to the edit player screen and check there.

[KBLover]

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Also, when settings lineups without the DH how do you select a pitcher? So far I have to manually click the "auto fix lineups" before I'm able to sim. There has to be a better way. There isn't a pitcher available in the lineups to select

Did you have an empty spot (or create one due to roster moves) in the rotation for the current day's starter?

If so, this happens, and unfortunately you have to let the game auto-fix. Normally, it just puts the pitcher in, or at least that's the usual result for me.

If this wasn't due to a roster move, then it's certainly a bug. It should just pick up the current starter and put him in the no DH lineups, even for an AL team.

[flexbuffchest]

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Did you have an empty spot (or create one due to roster moves) in the rotation for the current day's starter?

If so, this happens, and unfortunately you have to let the game auto-fix. Normally, it just puts the pitcher in, or at least that's the usual result for me.

If this wasn't due to a roster move, then it's certainly a bug. It should just pick up the current starter and put him in the no DH lineups, even for an AL team.

Ahh, that might be it.

I'm a bit bummed about not being able to see the minor league stats or the potential someone has with any stat (aside from editing them).

This is my first MLB The Show game but Franchise seems super limited.

[countryboy]

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Haven't provided an update in a bit.

We are currently in August and sit 4 games behind the Reds and 2 1/2 games out of the wildcard. We just finished a sweep of the Phillies but the Reds are on a roll as they won 2 of 3 from the majors best team, the Dodgers.

Since trading Siegrist our bullpen has been very good, but our starting pitching has been shaky. Alex Reyes continues to be a roller coaster pitcher as one game he's on and the next his control is all over the place. Michael Wacha's last two starts have yielded a combined 6 innings pitched and 11 earned runs given up. Martinez and Flaherty have been solid, and Lynn has been decent though he lasted just an inning and a third after being knocked out due to injury.

Our bats have been on fire as we hit a total of 9 homeruns and scored a total of 20 runs in the series against the Phillies.

Next up is a 7 game homestand with the Brewers in town for 3 and then the Reds for 4. Big series.

[Assassin]

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Ahh, that might be it.

I'm a bit bummed about not being able to see the minor league stats or the potential someone has with any stat (aside from editing them).

This is my first MLB The Show game but Franchise seems super limited.

If it's after the draft you'll see there potential when you go to sign them but if it's a prospect that's in the system you'll need to go to edit and see a number for yourself.

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