Do you value Prospects in Trades like in real life?

[tcnumba10]

Just wondering how the community plays during Franchise mode? When making trades, do you value prospects for well known commodities like how they do in real life? Or do you make trades regardless since you know you’ll never see your prospects blossom in the long run since this is a yearly baseball game?

[countryboy]

Re: Do you value Prospects in Trades like in real life?

Just wondering how the community plays during Franchise mode? When making trades, do you value prospects for well known commodities like how they do in real life? Or do you make trades regardless since you know you’ll never see your prospects blossom in the long run since this is a yearly baseball game?

I value prospects because I do the carryover franchise saves. I'm always more concerned with continuing to feed the pipeline so that I don't have to "re-build" or anything like that.

Also prospects allow me to make trades at deadline for vets that may put my team over the top in terms of making a deep playoff run.

[tcnumba10]

Re: Do you value Prospects in Trades like in real life?

I value prospects because I do the carryover franchise saves. I'm always more concerned with continuing to feed the pipeline so that I don't have to "re-build" or anything like that.

Also prospects allow me to make trades at deadline for vets that may put my team over the top in terms of making a deep playoff run.

I’m wondering about the carryover franchise saves, would the next game add faces and the player likeness to these prospects? And let’s say you play 1.5 years worth of MLB The Show 20, is you carry over to 21, would it just automatically start at the beginning and erase your progress of the .5 season you’ve played?

[countryboy]

Re: Do you value Prospects in Trades like in real life?

I’m wondering about the carryover franchise saves, would the next game add faces and the player likeness to these prospects? And let’s say you play 1.5 years worth of MLB The Show 20, is you carry over to 21, would it just automatically start at the beginning and erase your progress of the .5 season you’ve played?

No it does not update CAP in the next game. Like in my franchise started in '16, Aaron Judge, Harrison Bader, amongst others are CAP's because they weren't on the official SDS roster when the game launched. Their likeness isn't updated.

The carryover will pick up exactly where you carry it over from. So if you stop playing '20 on June 11th and carried over to '21, it would start on June 11th in your franchise

[tcnumba10]

Re: Do you value Prospects in Trades like in real life?

No it does not update CAP in the next game. Like in my franchise started in '16, Aaron Judge, Harrison Bader, amongst others are CAP's because they weren't on the official SDS roster when the game launched. Their likeness isn't updated.

The carryover will pick up exactly where you carry it over from. So if you stop playing '20 on June 11th and carried over to '21, it would start on June 11th in your franchise

Ah interesting, it doesn’t bother you that their likeness and faces are not updated? How accurate did the game project them to be now in terms of attributes and stats?

[JoshC1977]

Re: Do you value Prospects in Trades like in real life?

This is very much a role-playing game experience to me, so I don't treat anything like it's just a one year gig. My current franchise, I'm hoping to get through 2 or 3 seasons this year (playing every game of course) and then carry it over to next year for a few more seasons. So I handle prospects as I would if I were a real life GM.

[tcnumba10]

Re: Do you value Prospects in Trades like in real life?

This is very much a role-playing game experience to me, so I don't treat anything like it's just a one year gig. My current franchise, I'm hoping to get through 2 or 3 seasons this year (playing every game of course) and then carry it over to next year for a few more seasons. So I handle prospects as I would if I were a real life GM.

I’m wondering if you play 3 seasons in MLB The Show 20 and when you carry it over to the 21 game, will the calendar year say 2021 still or 2023?

[JoshC1977]

Re: Do you value Prospects in Trades like in real life?

I’m wondering if you play 3 seasons in MLB The Show 20 and when you carry it over to the 21 game, will the calendar year say 2021 still or 2023?

I'm fairly sure it'll say the latter. (I'm guessing CB can answer that first-hand)

[countryboy]

Re: Do you value Prospects in Trades like in real life?

Ah interesting, it doesn’t bother you that their likeness and faces are not updated? How accurate did the game project them to be now in terms of attributes and stats?

Not in the least.

I don't know that you can say the game projected them to be anything really because I set their attributes based on my own formula/criteria/equations.

But Aaron Judge is 33 years old in my game is rated 97 I believe it is. I think the game does a fantastic job in how players progress in the game as prospects.

[jmcole33]

Re: Do you value Prospects in Trades like in real life?

I’m wondering if you play 3 seasons in MLB The Show 20 and when you carry it over to the 21 game, will the calendar year say 2021 still or 2023?

It will say 2023. Like CB said, the calendar picks up exactly where you left off.

[countryboy]

Re: Do you value Prospects in Trades like in real life?

I’m wondering if you play 3 seasons in MLB The Show 20 and when you carry it over to the 21 game, will the calendar year say 2021 still or 2023?

It will say 2023

[tcnumba10]

Re: Do you value Prospects in Trades like in real life?

Not in the least.

I don't know that you can say the game projected them to be anything really because I set their attributes based on my own formula/criteria/equations.

But Aaron Judge is 33 years old in my game is rated 97 I believe it is. I think the game does a fantastic job in how players progress in the game as prospects.

That’s good to know that the game does a good job in how prospects progresses. I was afraid it was just face value and prospects won’t be as good as current MLB stars that are not CAPs

[Caulfield]

Re: Do you value Prospects in Trades like in real life?

90% of my franchising is one-&-done deals so I'm going with a 90% ‘‘no’’. for me, prospects are pawns to be used to generate more queens. win now or die trying. there is no tomorrow. I live like this is the last day of the rest of my life.

*insert Herm Edwards ''you play to win the game'' here*

[Juzbee]

Re: Do you value Prospects in Trades like in real life?

I say yes. The way I do my franchise is to play with one team (30 team control) until I win the World Series, then I switch to the team with the worst record and try to rebuild, again playing the new team until a World Series is won. Wash, rinse, repeat.



Btw... It took me until 2019 to get the Tigers a WS championship. I'm now in season 3 with the Padres, and a couple of my prospects are panning out, and the team is looking better (as in .500). But I think they will eventually be good

[reyes the roof]

Re: Do you value Prospects in Trades like in real life?

If anything, I over value my prospects and don’t want to part with any