MLB The Show 20 Franchise Management Tips and Tricks

[SirManBoy]

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The extend and trade method worked like a charm today. Several teams had the cap space to take my 27m dollar pitcher off my hands, but it was the Nationals that I chose to deal with because they had a couple of 20-year-old A-rated prospects making under 100k that I wanted to take off their hands. Mission accomplished, though it’s funny that the Nationals got my last high profile pitcher that I could no longer afford as well. Now these guys are reunited in Washington, though I don’t imagine the Nationals have much money left to build a team around them. As time has gone on the league—wide economy has basically flatlined and no team seems to have a budget that much over 185m dollars. I’m not sure what causes that, but it seems to be a symptom of taking a franchise play through several decades into the future.

[Jayyoungjr]

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is there a way to see other teams budgets it you don't have 30 team control on?

[countryboy]

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is there a way to see other teams budgets it you don't have 30 team control on?

Unfortunately no.

Something I've asked for along with ability to see other teams managerial/coaching staffs for years, but no luck.

[SirManBoy]

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is there a way to see other teams budgets it you don't have 30 team control on?

No, but I have had my contract renewed a few times over 30 seasons, so I’ve been offered jobs by some of the wealthiest franchises in the game and you can see their budgets when they offer you a job. All the budgets are down, league wide. In fact, my own budget took a hit probably 20 seasons ago and it hasn’t bounced back. I used to have weekly revenues in excess of 9m dollars, but it hasn’t been able to climb past 7m dollars a week since those early years in my franchise play through. It appears that in long franchise runs the entire league essentially becomes poorer to a point of unbelievable parity.

[Jayyoungjr]

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No, but I have had my contract renewed a few times over 30 seasons, so I’ve been offered jobs by some of the wealthiest franchises in the game and you can see their budgets when they offer you a job. All the budgets are down, league wide. In fact, my own budget took a hit probably 20 seasons ago and it hasn’t bounced back. I used to have monthly revenues in excess of 9m dollars, but it hasn’t been able to climb past 7m dollars a month since those early years in my franchise play through. It appears that in long franchise runs the entire league essentially becomes poorer to a point of unbelievable parity.

that is disappointing. I just finished the 23-24 off season and it seems like teams are still throwing out bigger contracts big names but it would be nice to see what other teams are spending. i have tried to keep my payroll at just about what they started at but it would be nice to see what other teams are spending at. it also be nice to see the other teams coaching staff like country said.

[SirManBoy]

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that is disappointing. I just finished the 23-24 off season and it seems like teams are still throwing out bigger contracts big names but it would be nice to see what other teams are spending. i have tried to keep my payroll at just about what they started at but it would be nice to see what other teams are spending at. it also be nice to see the other teams coaching staff like country said.

You can form a rough approximation of what they pay on players by looking at the roster screen. It’s tedious, but you can figure it out. You can also gain a sense of how much cap space they have by playing with the trade function, especially before the exclusive free agency period ends.

[thomas.wrench]

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In order to look for non-A potential productive prospects to target, I go through the AA and AAA league leaders and look for hitters that place in the top 5 in AVG, RBI's and one other category. And if these guys are under 25 years old, and a C or B, I will trade for them.

More often than not they progress nicely.

[SirManBoy]

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In order to look for non-A potential productive prospects to target, I go through the AA and AAA league leaders and look for hitters that place in the top 5 in AVG, RBI's and one other category. And if these guys are under 25 years old, and a C or B, I will trade for them.

More often than not they progress nicely.

Solid. I’m more of an attribute hunter, but I bet your approach results in similar players being targeted. I’ll try your approach this season.

[Caulfield]

Franchise Management Tips

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when you guys (or dolls) have your top 2 relievers with equivalent Overalls, do you install the one with the higher clutch as your Closer or do you look to some other attribute? or do you just let the CPU decide which one should be the designate closer?

[Jhack99]

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??question??

when you guys (or dolls) have your top 2 relievers with equivalent Overalls, do you install the one with the higher clutch as your Closer or do you look to some other attribute? or do you just let the CPU decide which one should be the designate closer?

Well since my pen likes to blow saves I have a revolving door at the Closer Position. But if I had a choice between two I can rely on, I'd go with the one that had better clutch, and a small look at K/9 and HR/9, but with the cavat of how well I pitch with them. Prime example, Seth Lugo was my closer, but his delivery from the windup is so terrible in this game I had to trade him. I couldn't get anyone out on a regular basis with him.

[Jhack99]

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Here is a tip. Don't ever pick the Rockies to run with for your franchise, good grief. In my Legend Mets franchise I just finished a 3 game series where it was homerun derby in all 3. The last game I was crushed 13-5. I think there was a average of 5 homers per game. Glad to get out of there winning two of them. And I skipped starting my rookie pitchers. Not picking on Rockies fans or your team, just that atrocious park. I'd end up firing every pitching coach I ever hired if I played there on the regular.

[SirManBoy]

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??question??

when you guys (or dolls) have your top 2 relievers with equivalent Overalls, do you install the one with the higher clutch as your Closer or do you look to some other attribute? or do you just let the CPU decide which one should be the designate closer?

H/9 and BB/9 over everything. OVR isn’t particularly telling because it may reflect high attributes in areas that matter less. I’ve had some terrible relievers with high OVR.

[Caulfield]

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Here is a tip. Don't ever pick the Rockies to run with for your franchise, good grief. In my Legend Mets franchise I just finished a 3 game series where it was homerun derby in all 3. The last game I was crushed 13-5. I think there was a average of 5 homers per game. Glad to get out of there winning two of them. And I skipped starting my rookie pitchers. Not picking on Rockies fans or your team, just that atrocious park. I'd end up firing every pitching coach I ever hired if I played there on the regular.

I had to throw conventional thinking out of the window and go outside the box when crafting a pitching staff at Coors. what I came up with is 10 starting pitchers and 3 relievers (2 of the relievers and 2 of the starters I shuttled between MLB & A ball all year. this was before the 26 man roster, so if I do it again going forward, I'd have 4 relievers, 2 shuttling back & forth).



anyways, none of my 10 starters exceeded 130 innings or more than 3 innings per start, or game pitched. 1 time through the opposing lineup and on to the next starter for the next 3 innings. rinse & repeat, for the most part. there were times during the year I would bring other different relievers up from the farm to help eat innings the next couple days after extra inning affairs.

[garry1221]

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??question??

when you guys (or dolls) have your top 2 relievers with equivalent Overalls, do you install the one with the higher clutch as your Closer or do you look to some other attribute? or do you just let the CPU decide which one should be the designate closer?

Highest clutch will typically be my closer. 2nd most clutch will typically be my set up guy unless he's younger B potential in which case he becomes my 1st MR.

[SirManBoy]

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So I thought of something today that I think could work well as a workaround for the limited contract extension periods that the game sets up. I’ve always been frustrated by that limitation because it can result in periods of disgruntlement where a minor leaguer that you call up remains on their minor league pay rate, but now has major league salary expectations that you can’t address because you’re not in an extension period. It seems to me that a workaround for this would be to release the minor leaguer in question and then simply re-sign them at a rate that will align with their new expectations.

Can anyone think of a reason why that wouldn’t work out like I think it will?