MLB The Show 19 Franchise Discussion Thread

[GainzBro]

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So, here we are just now entering the dog days of August. With four months of the 2020 season complete, it is time to give you all an in-depth inside look into my franchises season to this point.

We start with the division standings. starting with the NL East.

The New York Mets find themselves in first place in the division entering August. They have pretty much had what you would call a stranglehold on the division up to this point. The Mets hold a record of 68-44 entering August.

Which allows them a slim four-game lead over the suddenly surging Washington Nationals (63-47). Who are now just a mere four games back of the first-place Mets

But don't think that there is not another team vying for division dominance. As the Phillies are just six games back of the Mets with a record of 60-48.

The Braves are in fourth place ten games back.


now let us move onto the NL Central.

The Chicago Cubs have maintained a chokehold on the division for a while now. they have a record of 67-44, and hold a commanding fifteen game lead over the division.

The closest any team has come to take them down was to get the lead
over the division down to just 12.5 games. The Reds are the team currently in second place in the division with a record of 51-58.

If the Cubs end up blowing this lead over the final two months of the season it will be a collapse of monumental proportions.


Onto the NL West.


The Diamondbacks, Rockies, and Dodgers have been battling out for first place almost every day of the season. Currently, the Diamondbacks find themselves up on top with a record of 72-40. The Rockies hold down the second-place spot just three and a half games back of the D-Backs with a record of 67-42. The Dodgers have been lagging in third place for the best part of the 2020 season with a record of 66-44.

These three teams have seen short periods when all teams were tied for the lead in the division. however every time the Diamondbacks have always been the ones to come out on top. We will have to see if they have what it takes to stay there until the end of the season.


now onto the NL Wild Card.


Currently, five teams are vying for the top two spots. At the top, you have the Colorado Rockies (67-62). then you have the Los Angeles Dodgers with a record of (66-44). The next three teams are all trying to take one or both of the top two teams down to secure a spot in the postseason.

First off we have the Washington Nationals. they have a record of 63-47 and are three games back of the Dodgers for the second-place slot. In fourth place, in the NL Wild Card race are the Philadelphia Phillies. With a record of 60-48. This puts them two games back of the Nationals and five games back of the second wild-card spot. Now you wouldn't normally at this time of year include a team more than say five or six games back of the top wild-card spot in any league. However, I feel the Braves who are nine games back could surprise a lot of people and make a push for this thing.


Now that we have the senior circuit out o the way, let us get on with the superior league the American League. Here we go.

Starting with the AL East.


The Boston Red Sox are the supreme leaders here as neither of their in-division rivals has been able to threaten them at any time this season.
The Red Sox lead the division with a record of 68-43. Which affords them a somewhat comfortable six and a half-game lead over second-place Toronto. Who has a record of 62-50 The Yankees hold down the third-place spot in the division with a record of 61-51. Which has them seven and a half games back of Boston?

This division was a dog fight down the stretch last year with these three teams beating up on each other for supremacy. Looks like we might be in for a repeat of that again this season.


Time to move on to the surprisingly upside down AL Central.

This division has been a fight between just two teams all year. Those teams being the Minnesota Twins, and the Kansas City Royals. Both teams at some point this season has either controlled the division or held a share of the lead. Currently entering August it is the Twins who hold the top spot with a record of 58-51. The Royals with a record of 57-52 find themselves just one game back of the division lead. The perennial division Champions, the Cleveland Indians seem to have fallen on hard times Finding themselves in third place, thirteen games back.


Now we come to the division which has been under one team's thumb for pretty much the entire season, the AL West. The two-time defending world champion Oakland Athletics has never been threatened in their ownership of the division. Even with the minor injuries to key players, and an abundance of trades and roster turn over this team continues to let the rest of baseball now that the world series will once again go through Oakland.

The A's have a 32 game lead over the second-place Los Angeles Angeles of Anaheim. With that size of a lead at this point in the season, the A's have a magic number of 22 to clinch their third consecutive division title.


Finally, we come to the AL Wild Card race. there are four teams within just four and a half games of the top two slots. Those two top slots are currently being held down by the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim (62-50), and the Toronto Blue Jays (62-50).

The four teams that have an outside chance at taking one of those two top spots are as follows. The Yankees are just one game back of the second wild-card spot with a record of 62-51. Just a half-game behind them are the Seattle Mariners with a record of 60-51. At three and a half games back of the second wild-card spot are the Kansas City Royals with a record of 57-52.
The final team in this very tight race is the Houston Astros. They find themselves four and a half games behind with a record of 57-54.


Well there you have it... the entire MLB pennant race going into the dog days of August.


Just a couple of quick notes to pass along.

Rougned Odor (Oak) leads the AL MVP race. (.319 avg, 68 HR, 137 RBI)

Sean Manaea (Oak) leads the AL Cy Young race. (16-1, 1.65 E.R.A., 201 K)

Khris Davis (Oak) leads the AL batting title race with an average of .360.


Oh one more thing, Odor holds the MLB Single season record of 83 home runs hit in a single season. He is on pace to completely shatter his own record in just one season after he set the new record in 2019.

Seems like you are cruising. Any WS trophies yet?

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[bjenks]

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Game 2 of the NLCS is about to go live!

Mikolas pitched a really nice game in the first game of the series and earned himself a 4-1 victory to take a 1-0 series lead. A little bit discouraging was the fact that all 4 runs for me were scored in the 1st inning and then the Phillies shut me down for 8 innings. Need to put together more runs if I intend to advance in this series.

GAME 2 IS LIVE! LETS GO!!!!!

[bjenks]

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Game 2 was an L for me. 5-3. Series is now tied at 1 game a piece and we're going to STL for game 3. Going to actually play this game right now too! Need a big win here.

[mlblover15]

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It seems like you are cruising. Any WS trophies yet?

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yes, this is year three of this franchise. I have won back to back world series titles. I also have the core of this team signed up through 2024 or 2025. So this team will be a force to be reconded with for some time to come. I also have GM contracts turned on.

with my current track record, I will be looking for a nice contract after this year is over with my A's.

[GainzBro]

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Game 2 was an L for me. 5-3. Series is now tied at 1 game a piece and we're going to STL for game 3. Going to actually play this game right now too! Need a big win here.

I caught the 10th on replay. Walked it off! Psyched!

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[Chicago Made]

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Philly Philly!!!

My franchise began with the Philadelphia Phillies on this installment of the game.

I made a couple early season trades that could be justified as boneheaded but I have a fascination with both Jose Abreu and Miggy.

My first trade was Jake Arrieta & Roman Quinn for Miggy.
The next was David Robertson for Jose Abreu and Alfredo Gonzalez.

Final Trade was many days later Pat Neshek Sean Rodriguez and Alfredo Gonzalez for Starlin Castro and Magneuris Sierra

As I enter the last day of April my team sits atop the NL East with a 18-10 record heading into a 2-game series with the Detroit Tigers.

My team leader in BA is Corey Dickerson .356
HR leader on team is Bryce Harper and Rhys Hoskins with 6

My ace thus far has been Aaron Nola 3-1 record 1.54 ERA with 40 K's in 41.0 innings of duty.

Division Standings
Braves 19-10
Phillies 18-10
Mets 13-15
Nationals 10-17
Marlins 7-21

[edeadstroke]

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MLB THE SHOW 19 - 2019 REGULAR SEASON

So the REDS made some interesting moves this off-season, they traded away SP Homer Bailey, prospect SS Jeter Downs to the Dodgers for SP Alex Wood, OF Yasiel Puig, OF Matt Kemp and C/IF Kyle Farmer.

They also made trades with the Yankees for SP Sonny Gray and the Nationals for SP Tanner Roark. They have also signed F/As SS Jose Iglesias and UT player Derek Dietrich.

GM Sean Casey was given free rein by Owner Ed Eads Troke, hope these moves work out, hate to see Mr. Troke fire Casey, Casey is such a fun guy.

[edeadstroke]

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MLB THE SHOW 19 - 2019 REGULAR SEASON

REGULAR SEASON - GAMES 1 THRU 3 vs PIT

So the 2019 Regular Season is upon us, Spring Training just flew by (maybe because we simmed through it this time) and the boys are ready to play some meaningful baseball. The REDS open the season off with a three game home series versus the Pitts Pi-RATS.

GAME 1:
CIN SP Luis Catillo vs PIT SP Jameson Taillon

SP Luis Castillo would pitch 6.1 innings of real good baseball and would allow only 1 RUN to score. PIT's SP Taillon did well by only allowing the REDS to score 2 RUNS, but that would be all the needed as the REDS won by a final score of 2 - 1.


GAME 2:
CIN SP Tyler Mahle vs PIT SP Chris Archer

It did not look like this game was ever going to get under way. While the game was delayed by nearly 2 hours, and with no real make up date available on both the REDS and RATS schedule until May 27th, both teams and some fans waited out the rain.

SP Tyler Mahle got the start after SP Sonny Gray was scratched after such a long wait. Mahle pitch really well under the circumstances, he pitched 7 innings and only allowed 2 RUNS in the 7th. This would tie the game up after both the RED'S 1B Joey Votto and 3B Eugenio Suarez each had solo home runs earlier in the game. But SP Mahle would exit the game with a No-Decission.

With the game tied 2-2 and both offenses struggling with the poor weather, the REDS sent once SP now LRP Robert Stephenson to the mound. Fortunately two innings of scoreless pitching is all the REDS would need from Stephenson, as 3B Suarez would connect for his 2nd HR, a 3 RUN HR, in the bottom of the 9TH for a walk-off WIN. REDS 5 Pi-RATS 2. The REDS would improve to 2-0 and being looking for the sweep.


GAME 3:
CIN SP Sonny Gray vs PIT SP Trevor Williams

SP Sonny Gray was scratched from yesterday's game and should have been scatched from today's game. Gray struggled early and often, in 5 innings of work he allow 9 HITS with 4 RUNS.

The RED'S offense was just as terrible, getting 3 HITS and scoring just 1 RUN.

Both RP Wandy Peralta and C Tucker Barnhart would also each allow a run
to score. (Barnhart kinda got trapped on the mound during a substitution and had to pitch to one hitter. THat hitter got on and later scored while Peralta was pitching). The final was 6-1 in favor of PIT.

But the REDS took the opening series 2-1 against their divsion rivals and are going to host MIL for 3 games next.

REDS REGULAR SEASON RECORD: 2 - 1

[bjenks]

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WALK OFF HR FOR MATT CARPTENTER IN THE BOTTOM OF THE TENTH INNING TO WIN GAME 3! Took a 2-1 series lead. Playing game 4 right now on Twitch.

[countryboy]

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Cardinals win 3rd straight series

The Cardinals have now won 3 straight series after beating the Brewers in the Sunday rubber match 7-3. The Cardinals started by beating the Braves to start the month of May off and then beat the Phillies 2 out of 3 games. After dropping the series opener to the Brewers thanks to a bullpen blowup, the Cardinals rallied to win Saturday and Sunday to take the series.

The Cardinals will now travel to Miami to face the Marlins for a 4 game series.

Carson Kelly to 10 Day IL

The Cardinals have placed starting catcher Carson Kelly on the 10 Day IL after experiencing knee pains on Sunday. The official diagnosis is knee inflammation and he is expected to miss 2 weeks.

Top prospect (#5 in baseball) C Devon Snow was recalled from Memphis to take Kelly's spot on the active roster.

[JH927]

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yes, this is year three of this franchise. I have won back to back world series titles. I also have the core of this team signed up through 2024 or 2025. So this team will be a force to be reconded with for some time to come. I also have GM contracts turned on.

with my current track record, I will be looking for a nice contract after this year is over with my A's.

Glad to see you still plugging away with Oakland, mlb. Finally decided to move on from '18 for Black Friday, so I'm working my way through a new Phillies rebuild franchise at the moment.

[edeadstroke]

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MLB THE SHOW 19 - 2019 REGULAR SEASON

The REDS opened the 2019 Regular Season with a series win against the Pi-RATS and were looking to build off their strong start as the Milwaukee Brewers come into Cincy for three games. The RED'S new skipper David Bell was happy overall with the club's pitching, but wants to see a little more from their hitting.

REGULAR SEASON - GAMES 4 THRU 6 vs MIL

GAME 1 vs MIL:
CIN SP Tanner Roark vs MIL SP Corbin Burnes

Newly acquired SP Tanner Roark, whom the REDS traded for with the Nationals in the Tanner for Tanner trade, would get his first start as a RED. Roark would pitch 7.0 innings allowing just 4 HITS with 2 RUNS and 6 STRIKE OUTS. Unfortunately the REDS would only score 1 RUN the whole game and Roark would get the loss. Final score was 1 - 2, MIL gets the win.


GAME 2 vs MIL:
CIN SP Anthony DeSclafani vs MIL SP Jimmy Nelson

After dropping a close one yesterday to the Brew Crew, the REDS needed to bounce back and get a win today if they wanted any chance of winning back to back series at home.

SP Anthony DeSclafani would get the nod to start this one, and things did not start out well for Cincy. The REDS would trail 0 - 4 after the first three inning. DeSclafani suffered from the RED'S 2 ERRORS in the first 4 innings, on one of the errors he was charged with 2 ER after a bad throw by 3B Eugenio Suarez to 1B Joey Votto, Suarez's throw would catch the grass and skip by Votto. The official's score charged the 2 RUNS as 2 ER against DeSclafani some how, the REDS are protesting the scorer's decission. GOOD LUCK with that one!

After 4 innings the score was 1 - 5 and did not look good for the REDS. DeSclafani would leave after 5 innings with 7 HITS allowed, 5 RUNS with 4 being ER (minus 2).

RP Robert Stephenson would pitch 2 scoreless innings (6TH and 7TH) in his second appearance of the season and would benefit from the REDS rallying for 3 RUNS in the bottom of the 6TH, closing the gap 4 - 5. Then another big inning in the 7TH as they pushed across 4 more RUNS. Stephenson would leave with a 8 - 5 lead.

MIL would score 1 RUN in the 8TH, but the REDS would hold on for the WIN 8 - 6. The Series is now tied 1 - 1.


GAME 3 vs MIL:
CIN SP Luis Castillo vs MIL SP Brandon Woodruff

SP Luis Castillo would get his second start of this young season and would also be looking for his second win. Castillo would start strong, but another RED'S fielding ERROR would allow 2 RUNS to score in the 3RD. As LF Jesse Winker was playing RF, he somehow would misplay a routine fly ball (he was right there but did not lock in, hmmm...) and MIL would go up 2 - 0.

Castillo would go 7 innings with 6 HITS 2 RUNS none EARNED though and strike out 5.

RP David Hernandez would allow the Brewers to score 1 RUN in the 8TH to make the score 0-3. This would be the final score and the REDS would drop the series.

The REDS travel to Pittsburgh to play the Pi-RATS in a 4 game series.

REDS minor league ball starts tommorrow as the REDS farm teams...

AAA Louisville BATS are @ Toledo Mudhens for 4 games

and

AA Chattanooga LOOKOUTS vs Montgomery Biscuits play 5 games (somebody pass the sausage gravy, please)

REDS REGULAR SEASON RECORD: 3 - 3

[countryboy]

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Cardinals sweep Marlins..win 6th straight

The Cardinals swept the Marlins in a 4 game series to improve their winning streak to 6 games and now move their record to 22-24 on the season.

The Cardinals pitching staff was dominant in this series as they only allowed 2 runs to the Marlins over the 4 games. Offensively, Brendan McKay snapped out of his mini slump and Jo Adell continued to swing a hot bat as the Cardinals are finding their footing on the 2024 season.

Next up the Cardinals will travel to Washington, D.C to face the Nationals for a 3 game weekend series.

Yankees and Astros agree to trade

The Yankees and Astros agreed to the first trade of the 2024 season.

Astros Acquire:

RF Sam Hilliard

Yankees Acquire:

3B J.D. Davis


Good trade for both teams as the Yankees are loaded in the outfield, espcially in right field and need depth at 3B. The Astros have infield depth but were lacking an everyday right fielder. This trade solves both issues for both teams.

[bjenks]

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So ended up losing Game 4 2-0 and so now the series is tied at 2. Going to game 5 at home with Gerrit Cole on the mound again, hoping to take a 3-2 lead. This is a HUGE game. I'm going to be streaming it on Twitch, right now!

[DJ]

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13 games left in the 2020 regular season for the Mets. This will be my third straight season of playing all 162 games. Looking forward to the playoffs and trying to defend our World Series title.