MLB The Show 21 Franchise Discussion Thread

[MizzouRah]

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Just an unbelievable amount of bad luck for the Cardinals in my franchise continues.

They have been without Harrison Bader for 24 games still on the IL for 26 more days. They lost Dylan Carlson for the season after 20 games with a torn ACL. And NOW the last game vs the Padres they lost Matt Carpenter for 1-2 months with a dislocated shoulder, AND LF Austin Dean, who was called up when Carlson went down is now out 1-2 months as well.

They have the worst record in baseball, sitting 9-22 and already 9gb in the division end of April. As a Reds fan and franchise with them I am loving it lol. But I don't want to get too confident cause injuries could happen at any time to any one player. Sorry, Cardinals fans but in my franchise your team is in the ****ter [emoji1]

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I'm in 4th place with my Cardinals even without injuries.. LOL. March to October has been tough as dynamic difficulty has raised me past Veteran, which is realistic as I was killing the ball early on. Still fun but I can't get a hot streak going yet.

[Bgrd1080]

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May 1st New York Mets vs Philadelphia Phillies
It was the Jacob DeGrom show! Eight innings, 13 strikeouts, including the first 6 batters he faced. Chase Anderson had a different day however and only lasted 2 and a third innings before making way for Ranger Suarez. It wasn't until the 4th inning that Philadelphia recorded their first hit, a double by Bryce Harper.
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Trade rumors: Philadelphia and Colorado reportedly have been in talks for a Trevor Story trade. Philly offered SS Didi Gregorious, Number 3 prospect SS Bryson Stott and 18th ranked prospect pitcher Adonis Medina in exchange for Trevor Story but Colorado has asked for more or perhaps a prospect higher up in the farm system closer to Stotts level.
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[rab912]

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The Pirates finished off July only winning 7 games having their record fall to 39-66 16.5 Gb of the division leading Cubs.

completely out of the Playoff picture the Pirates will look to get some young guys some experience the rest of the way.

Contract extensions:
Ke Bryan Hayes was extended for 2 yrs. 1.89M

Trade Deadline:
The Pirates acquired Clint Frazier from the Yankees in exchange for Gregory Polanco, Tyler Anderson, and John Ryan Murphy

The Pirates acquired Francisco Mejia from the Rays in exchange for a B potential game generated player and Austin Davis. Mejia was hitting under .200 put him in Triple A

Hitting Studs:
Ke Bryan Hayes .247 14 Hr 50RBI
Clint Frazier .283 11 HR 39 RBI
Kevin Newman .290 6 HR 36 RBI
Brian Goodwin .281 12 HR 42 RBI

Hitting Duds:
Todd Fraizer .200 8 HR 18 RBI
Joey Rickard .170 0 HR 2 RBI

Pitching Studs:
Steven Brault 4-5 112 Innings pitched 3.61 ERA 1.26 Whip
Chris Stratton 0-1 55 Innings pitched 3.27 ERA 1.18 Whip
Michael Feliz 0-1 66 Innings pitched 2.44 ERA 1.25 Whip
Richard Rodriguez 34 Innings pitched 3.18 ERA 1.06 Whip 25-6
Ty Buttrey 29 Innings pitched 2.10 ERA 1.21 ERA 21 HLD

Pitching Duds:
Mitch Keller 7-8 105 Innings Pitched 5.45 ERA 1.66 Whip
Cody Ponce 2-4 28 Innings pitched 6.35 ERA 1.48 Whip
Sam Howard 1-0 14 Innings pitched 7.07 ERA 1.57 Whip

Notes:
Chasen Shreve was released after his ERA going up to 5.20
Recalled Sam Howard from Triple A
Activated Kyle Crick from the IL
Colin Moran was my lone all star

The Pirates have finished up the month of June at a record of 32-47 11.5 GB of the first place Cardinals and 10 GB in the Wild Card

The Pirates had a successful 2021 draft picking Claude Wells SP in the first round out of Maryland 69 overall with a high B potential. They then selected CP Rafael Chavis out of the Dominican Republic a 60 overall with high B potential. In the later rounds the Pirates selected two more pitchers with B potential to finish the draft off.

Will be looking to move Gregory Polanco soon and possibly Richard Rodriguez

Offensive Studs:

Gregory Polanco .322 16 HR 41 RBI

Kevin Newman .330 5 HR 27 RBi

Offensive Duds:

Ke Bryan Hayes .233 8 HR 38 RBI

Todd Fraizer .185 6 HR 15 RBI

Wilmer Difo .178 0 HR 4 RBI

Pitching Studs:

Steven Brault 3.21 ERA 87 Innings Pitched 1.18 Whip

Michael Feliz 2.54 ERA 49.2 Innings Pitched 1.23 Whip

Richard Rodriguez 3.14 ERA 28.2 Innings Pitched 1.12 Whip 21-5 Saves

Pitching Duds:

Chasen Shreve 5.08 ERA 39 Innings pitched 1.49 Whip

J.T. Brubaker 6.33 ERA 75 Innings pitched 1.77 Whip 1-10
Notes:

JT Brubaker was sent down and Cody Ponce was recalled will start the first game of the month against the Brewers

Michael Feliz is the leading vote getter so far for the Pirates

[The Kid 24]

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CB bud, I saw ur post about CPU signing Flowers in late April...

My question is, have you seen them DFA guys and send down guys struggling, promote guys doing well?


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[TexasLeague]

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Are you guys rollin’ with the rosters in the game for your franchise or using something else or doing a temp/test ‘chise? Just curious—I’m ready to get goin’.

[Qb]

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CB, didn't you struggle with Hicks last time around as well? Wonder what it is...

[countryboy]

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CB bud, I saw ur post about CPU signing Flowers in late April...

My question is, have you seen them DFA guys and send down guys struggling, promote guys doing well?


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The CPU is DFA players, but I have not seen them promote a player to the majors and demote a player based on performance.

There is currently a bug where the CPU will not recall/promote a player to the MLB roster, or any roster, to fill a vacancy left due to injury. SDS is aware and has a fix that I believe will be deployed in their first patch (thanks to Tbarnes for communicating with SDS that issue and submitting info to get it fixed)

So I'm thinking once that fix is deployed then we'll see the CPU promote/demote players due to injuries and performance like they should.

Are you guys rollin’ with the rosters in the game for your franchise or using something else or doing a temp/test ‘chise? Just curious—I’m ready to get goin’.

I took the latest LIVE ROSTER and made my own personal adjustments and have started. Works for me.

CB, didn't you struggle with Hicks last time around as well? Wonder what it is...

Yes I did. But after sending him to Memphis the last time he performed much better, so I'm hoping for a similar result.

[Rs31632]

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Anybody have some “meta” ish 70/60 rated players for the mid to late rounds in my fantasy draft?

Looking for anyone really, but a catcher recommendation would be real nice

Open to anything!

[Chicago Made]

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[LowerWolf]

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Are you guys rollin’ with the rosters in the game for your franchise or using something else or doing a temp/test ‘chise? Just curious—I’m ready to get goin’.

I selected the default roster when I started my franchise. But I made a fair number of positional edits for each team before spring training started.

[Bm7414206]

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Is this thread just strictly for regular franchise or Fantasy draft franchises as well?

[countryboy]

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Is this thread just strictly for regular franchise or Fantasy draft franchises as well?

Any franchise. Share your experience!

This is by far my favorite thread each and every year.

[stormchaserck19]

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The CPU is DFA players, but I have not seen them promote a player to the majors and demote a player based on performance.

There is currently a bug where the CPU will not recall/promote a player to the MLB roster, or any roster, to fill a vacancy left due to injury. SDS is aware and has a fix that I believe will be deployed in their first patch (thanks to Tbarnes for communicating with SDS that issue and submitting info to get it fixed)

So I'm thinking once that fix is deployed then we'll see the CPU promote/demote players due to injuries and performance like they should.



I took the latest LIVE ROSTER and made my own personal adjustments and have started. Works for me.



Yes I did. But after sending him to Memphis the last time he performed much better, so I'm hoping for a similar result.

Any thoughts on when that patch may be coming haha?

[Bm7414206]

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Hey all! So I'm using the newest roster update but I went thru and lowered all B and A potentials by 5. And then I went back thru again and lowered all players attributes who overall was 80-84 by 1, 85-89 by 2, 90-94 by 3 and 95+ by 4. Because SDS always makes their potentials and imo their overalls of players way too high. I also went thru and adjusted players positions so it's a better balance across the roster and changed contracts because real life contracts never work in the game imo.

Whew!!!

So after doing all that I started a 30 team fantasy draft 2 days ago and just finished today drafting for all 30 teams. I use recommended pick for 29 teams but I make sure the cpu teams stay balanced so I will switch to another position if tjey keep picking from one position and manually draft for me. To keep it balanced though I counted the total number of B potentials and A potentials and divided by 30. So that left me with I could only choose 26 B potential players and 4 A potential players. Which makes it hard because you have to really scrutinize what players to draft and spread the potentials around lol and for each extra A potential player over my 4 that I can get 2 less B potential players. So as you can see it gets very hard and really makes you think about who you draft lol

I will post my results of my draft in my next post because I'm sure this is already too long lol

To Be Continued....

[Bm7414206]

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SEATTLE MARINERS UPDATE:

The MLB decided to switch things up after the pandemic and do a full blown Fantasy Draft for all 30 teams. Every player was eligible to be drafted.

The Mariners came in with the 13th/18th picks in the Draft. Fernando Tatis Jr was the number 1 overall pick and was drafted by the St. Louis Cardinals.

As the 13th pick came closer and closer the Mariners had to decide who to draft as slowly some of their picks came off the board. The Mariners had come in with a plan of drafting from the middle out and getting 2 ace like SP and 2 ace type RP along with a C, 2B, SS and CF with good defense within their first 10 picks.

So when the 13th pick came around Seattle had some really tough choices. Some of their top picks were still left on the board. At 2B Brandon Lowe who brings a nice blend of power and defense. At SS Trevor Story, a true 5 tool player, along with SS Francisco Lindor and Javier Baez. And in CF Cody Bellinger another dominant 5 tool player. After looking thru the stats the decision came down to SS Trevor Story and CF Cody Bellinger. Both true 5 tool players, Story is in the last year of team control with Bellinger having 3 more years of control.

SS Trevor Story (88) B potential
CF Cody Bellinger (90) A potential

But with only a limited number of A and B potential I am able to get the Mariners decided to pick... SS Trevor Story with the 13th overall pick.


The next 10 picks went as follows for Seattle....

1. SS Trevor Story (88) B
2. SP Dinelson Lamet (84) B
3. Max Fried (83) B
4. Willson Contreras (84) A
5. David Fletcher 2B (84) B
6. SP Sixto Sanchez (77) B
7. RP Devin Williams (83) B
8. RP Josh Hader (83) B
9. 1B Trey Mancini (76) C
10. RF Austin Meadows (76) B
11. CF Raimel Tapia (72) B

So the first 11 picks the Mariners kept to their plan and came out very happy.


To Be Continued...