MLB The Show 20 Franchise Discussion Thread

[countryboy]

It's that time again folks!

Share all your stories and happenings of your franchise here! I look forward to reading and following along with everyone's franchise.

This is by far my favorite thread every single year!

Unfortunately due to unforeseen circumstances I have retired my carryover franchise after 8 seasons. It was a hell of a ride, but I am committed to re-starting and taking the current Cardinals roster and get them into the postseason and then build this team in my vision for the years to come.

I am hoping to get Spring Training started tonight, but I am waiting on the roster update that drops at Midnight and checking out those rosters before doing so.

Enjoy and good luck to everyone in MLB The Show '20! I hope we have some World Series Champions!

EDIT: I will not be starting over. I tried playing with the current team and all I could do was think about the team that I built and wanting to acquire the players to rebuild that team, and some were impossible because they were draft picks.

So...despite the "issue" that I have with re-doing the offseason, I'm going to redo it in '20 and roll with it. I went back to an old save right after the World Series and took care of as many bad contracts as I could by force retiring those players. So this offseason should be better than the one I completed where I completely forgot to do that "trick".

So I'm starting my offseason now and whatever happens...happens. I'm not going to concern myself with where guys signed my first go through and what not. Just going to let it play out, because I simply cannot start over....I'm too invested/attached to this team and franchise universe.

So here we go...2024/2025 has begun!

[Bm7414206]

Re: MLB The Show 20 Franchise Discussion Thread

I've noticed they missing couple key players on mlb team like aj Puk for Oakland and Carter Kieboom for nationals

[Ninjoid]

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There's an OSD bug on the Show presentation theme in franchise (I've reported it)

Essentially when using the MLB The Show presentation theme the OSD on the score bug is bringing through stats for the previous player/batter.

For example the averages are fine but when it shows season/series stats on the pop up, e.g. 4 for 20 with an avg of .200 it is for the previous player.

So Mike Trout comes to bat with an avg of .211...this displays ok but the pop out then displays his season stats as 10 for 23 with an avg of .435 and these are the stats for the previous batter Anthony Rendon.

Small issue which should be easily fixed.

EDIT - just noticed it is also happening on the MLB network graphical osds too. It's even displaying the stats from the other team against batters.

Simply put, for some reason it's not refreshing correctly on either theme in franchise and needs investigation

[flamingoezz]

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Anyone sim yet? How is progression looking?

Is there anything that is looking like they updated From last year but didn’t mention in streams?

[Councilmann_Jamm]

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Just saw you can now have 17 year olds in the game. Can you edit to that age inside Franchise?

[mvb34]

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Does the inter-league schedule rotate?

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[duh1call3dston3s]

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The way I prefer starting out my franchise is by following what’s going on IRL. Whatever happens after my season begins is what will happen in my universe then, doesn’t have to mirror real life any longer.

My question to those of you that play like this is, where do you put the players who are really injured to start of the season IRL?

[The Kid 24]

Re: MLB The Show 20 Franchise Discussion Thread

The way I prefer starting out my franchise is by following what’s going on IRL. Whatever happens after my season begins is what will happen in my universe then, doesn’t have to mirror real life any longer.

My question to those of you that play like this is, where do you put the players who are really injured to start of the season IRL?

You would put them on the IL, you'll have to manually do it.

[JoshC1977]

Re: MLB The Show 20 Franchise Discussion Thread

Anyone sim yet? How is progression looking?



Is there anything that is looking like they updated From last year but didn’t mention in streams?

Progression is overdone using the launch rosters, but not as bad as it was using the full minors rosters were last year (it starts getting bad around year 7 vs year 2). I’m sure the custom ones that add more prospects will make it even worse (which is to be expected).


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[cardinal511]

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I've noticed they missing couple key players on mlb team like aj Puk for Oakland and Carter Kieboom for nationals

Gavin Lux was the big one I noticed missing.

[cardinal511]

Re: MLB The Show 20 Franchise Discussion Thread

Just saw you can now have 17 year olds in the game. Can you edit to that age inside Franchise?

I don't believe so. I've been editing rosters, and I tried moving one of the 17 year olds to see if I could go back to 17. I couldn't. The youngest you can edit someone down to is 18.

[duh1call3dston3s]

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You would put them on the IL, you'll have to manually do it.

How do I manually do it? I’ve tried going into my franchise roster and clicking on the name, but it gives me no option to put them on the IL.

I also did the same outside of franchise mode. I tried doing player movement and I still don’t see an option to manually place a player on IL

[UravenzownU]

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30 team control or CPU roster control on?

Which do you guys prefer/think is better?

[rockyall107]

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Can’t start my franchise until I figure out how to get joe Girardi to be the Phillies coach. Anyone have any suggestions?? Why isn’t he in the game

[Rocket32]

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Can’t start my franchise until I figure out how to get joe Girardi to be the Phillies coach. Anyone have any suggestions?? Why isn’t he in the game

Unfortunately there’s nothing you can do. He might get patched in later at some point, if I remember right they did it with Boone and Cora that year but if they do patch the missing managers in you won’t get them in an already existing franchise. You would have to restart. So you either have to just start it up and deal with a generic manager this year or wait for him to be patched in which unless the devs confirm it will happen, might not even be quite a sure thing.

Definitely sucks, had to deal with it too in my Yankees franchise a few years ago.
Unless they ever let us create and edit coaches in the game we are pretty much stuck in this situation.