MLB The Show 22 Franchise Discussion Thread

[LowerWolf]

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We've hit September 2022 in my Braves MLB 21 franchise. Time for the playoff races to heat up.

We're 87-41 with a 12-game lead over the Mets. The top of the lineup of Acuna, Albies, Freeman and Ozuna has been carrying us. I bragged about Austin Riley just before the All-Star break, but a stat popped up a couple of games ago that he was hitting .119 for August. He's clearly pressing, so we gave him a few days off to try to clear his head. Joc Pederson is also really scuffling. We need those two to heat up as the weather cools off.

Real-life events have me ready to move on from Ozuna, but he's been my hottest hitter. It doesn't make much sense in the confines of my franchise to dump him at this point, or even in the offseason. Going to have to figure out what to do there.

We're leaning toward bringing up Roman Quinn and Touki Toussaint as our September call-ups. We'll probably shuffle some guys back and forth between Gwinnett and Atlanta throughout the month. Michael Harris and Jared Shuster will likely get promoted to Triple A.

Playoff Races
The Braves and Padres likely have the top two seeds in the NL. The Padres have an 8.5-game lead over the Dodgers in the West. The Cardinals hold a 3-game lead over the Cubs with the Brewers 4.5 back in the Central. The Dodgers and Mets hold the two wild-card spots with the Nationals 4 back.

In the AL, the White Sox are running away with the Central and the top seed. The Astros have a commanding lead in the West and will likely be the No. 3 seed. The Yankees and Rays are battling for the East and the second seed. One of those two teams likely gets a wild-card spot with a free-for-all for the other spot. The Twins currently hold that spot, but the Blue Jays, Royals, Angels and even the red-hot A's are in contention. Oakland has won seven straight.

Award Winners
Right now, Bryce Harper and Yordan Alvarez are the front runners for each league's MVP. Jacob deGrom and Lucas Giolito are the favorites for the Cy Young.

[LegendKillerOne]

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Guardians Drop 2 of 3 To Twins

The Guardians hosted the Twins for the second series of the season. Two teams who both think they can compete and win the AL Central

Game 1- Chris Paddack (0-0) vs Zach Plesac (0-0)
This game was a wild one that Minnesota almost let get away. Plesac was hit hard early and put the guardians in a whole giving up 5 runs in 5 innings. That was not helped when relief pitcher De Los Santos came in and gave up 4 more runs and mid way through the 7th the Guardians trailed 9-2. While Paddack was manageable for the Twins the bullpen was not. Michael Fulmer came in for them in the 8th. Walked the first two batters and then gave up a three run home run to Jose Ramirez to make the game 9-5 and he was pulled without recording an out. In the 9th Jorge Lopez can in for the same and with nobody out the Indians loaded the bases. A two run double by Jose Ramirez who had a huge game with 2 home runs, 6 rbis made it 9-7. Another walk loaded them up and at 9-7 with bases loaded no outs I was certain we would win this game. Well I was wrong. Josh Naylor hit into a double play to make it 9-8 and Andres Gimenez grounded out to strand the tying run at 3rd. Guardians fall to Twins 9-8 and drop their first game of the season.

Game 2- Kenta Maeda (0-0) vs Aaron Civale (0-0)
Civale was not great giving up 5 runs over 6 innings but luckily for the Guardians Josh Naylor had other plans.He would go 2 for 3 with 2 homeruns and 5 rbis including a grand slam and the Guardians would overcome a 4-2 defecit and hold on to win and even the series 9-7 the final. Emmanuel Clase got the save he is now 3 for 3 in save chances despite the fact he has giving up a run in every save oppurtunity and holds a 6.00 era in 3 appearances.

Game 3- Joe Ryan (0-1) vs Shane Beiber (1-0)
A matchup of the teams aces did not go as planned for Shane Bieber. He would go 7 innings only allowing 4 hits but 3 of those hits would be homeruns to Polanco, Kirilloff, and Gary Sanchez. Those 4 runs would hold up as the Guardians would try and rally but would fall short losing the game and the series 4-3

Jose Ramirez and Josh naylor lead the team with 3 homeruns a peice

Ramirez and Rosario both hitting over .400 6 games in


AL CENTRAL STANDINGS

Guardians 4-2
Twins 4-3
Tigers 4-3
White Sox 3-3
Royals 2-4

Around the League

Last remaining unbeaten team is the Cardinals at 6-0. The Nationals are the only winless team at 0-6

Next up the Guardians head to Kansas City for 4 games. On the season the Guardians are 3-0 against the Royals. This series will take place tomorrow as my wife wants to go house decor shopping and such is my life.

[countryboy]

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Cardinals drop series to Brewers in Milwaukee

The Cardinals (79-65) dropped 2 games of a 3 game series with the Brewers in Milwaukee over the weekend. The Cardinals lead the NL Central now by 3.5 games over the Reds.

The Cardinals lost both Friday (10-0) and Saturday (6-3 - blown lead), but was able to avoid the sweep when Jake Odorizzi earned his major league lead tying 16th win of the season on Sunday.

The offense is struggling right now. Nolan Arenado is 0 for his last 13. Goldschmidt is a strikeout machine. DeJong and O'Neill are not driving in runs when opportunities are presented. Frustrating time for a slump to hit a majority of the lineup.

The Cardinals are off on Monday as they head to Cincinnati for a pivotal 3 game series with the Reds. The two teams will meet 9 times over the last 18 or so games.

[countryboy]

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Career hit number 2200 for Yadier Molina

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[Itsma806]

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2022 Arizona Diamondbacks World Series Game 5

Final Score:
Angels-5
D-Backs-4

LAA leads series 3-2

Angels take game five as bats remain hot

The Los Angeles Angels three game homestand in the 2022 World Series was a success as they won two out of three in LA. Arizona hoped having their ace, Zac Gallen on the mound would give them the upper hand but that wasn't the case. An in fact, Gallen has struggled in back to back post season starts.

His struggles started early when Max Stassi hit a three run homer in the second inning. The homerun was Stassi's third in the World Series and third overall in the postseason.

Mike Trout also dominated yet again, going 4-4 with a two run HR of his own.

The D-Backs almost came back in the 9th inning as they scored two to bring the game within one. Unfortunately, Raisel Iglesias was able to strike out Wilmer Difo on a high fastball to end the game.

The series now shifts back to Arizona where the D-Backs will have to win both games to win the series while the Angels look to close out the series in six.

[countryboy]

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Cardinals swept by Reds..divisional lead now 1/2 game

The Cardinals (79-68) were swept by the Reds in Cincinnati and now lead the NL Central by just a half game over the Reds. The two teams will meet 6 more times over the final two weeks.

In a pivotal series, the Cardinals bats and pitching staff both went to hell in a hand basket. They couldn't get timely hits and the pitching staff couldn't miss bats. Horrible combination and extremely frustrating for both to happen at this juncture of the season.

The Cardinals will return home for a weekend series with the Diamondbacks. The Cardinals will play their next 10 games at home where they are (50-21) on the season, versus being (29-47) away from Busch. They are going to need to show up these next 10 games if they want to have any chance of winning the NL Central which will likely be their only route to playing October baseball.

Remaining Schedule:

3 vs Diamondbacks
3 vs Reds
4 vs Mets
2 @ Royals
3 @ Reds

[Itsma806]

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2022 Arizona Diamondbacks World Series Game 6

Final Score:
D-Backs-11
Angels-10

Series tied 3-3

Diamondbacks force game seven

Whew! What a game! The Los Angeles Angels and the Arizona Diamondbacks just finished what has to be a top five all time World Series game.

Game six saw Madison Bumgarner and "Thor" Noah Syndergaard face off in what turned out to be an epic game six in the 2022 World Series. The game was however not made epic by either's performance. Syndergaard was able to pitch a decent five innings but gave up 12 hits and 5 runs. Bumgarner pitched just 3.1 as he gave up 10 hits and 8 runs. After those five innings, it was 8-5 Angels.

To make matters worse for the Diamondbacks, in the fourth inning, Ketel Marte was thrown out at home and during his slide, he caught his left hand on Austin Romine's leg which injured his wrist and he was removed from the game.

The Angels added on in the 8th inning with RBI's by Anthony Rendon and Romine that led to a 10-5 lead as the game and the World Series victory got closer to their grasp.

Christian Walker hit a solo HR in the bottom of the same inning and the teams headed to the 9th inning with Los Angeles leading 10-6.

But with their magical season on the line, the Diamondbacks did not give up. Their fight and desire to live another day persevered against the Angels' closer Raisel Iglesias. Buddy Kennedy hit an RBI single and later in the inning, Christian Walker came up clutch with his second homer of the game, this one a three run shot that tied the game and sent it to extra innings.

In the 11th and 12th innings, both teams had chances to take the lead but in both instances, runners were thrown out at home.

In the 11th, the man who replaced Marte, Gerardo Perdomo was thrown out trying to score on a slow roller by David Peralta to first.

In the 12th, Shohei Ohtani was thrown out as he tried to stretch a triple into an inside the park homerun.

The bottom of the 12th was the deciding half inning as during the inning, Daulton Varsho walked and later stole second. After his steal, Sergio Alcantara collected his only hit of the game on a ground ball into center field. Varsho was able to just beat Trout's throw into home and give the Diamondbacks the walk off victory 11-10. The win leads to the deciding game seven where one of these teams will walk away with a World Series victory.

Corbin Carroll added to playoff roster
One of Arizona's top prospects, Corbin Carroll will join the team for the deciding game seven in the 2022 World Series. After game six, it was learned that Arizona's star, Ketel Marte has a broken hand and will not be able to play in the final game of the year. Not only was Carroll added to the playoff roster but he will start as the DH for Arizona.

[LowerWolf]

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What an awful break (no pun intended) for Marte.

Good luck in Game 7!

[IndianSummer]

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Working our way toward the trade deadline. I’m not sure I will be selling or buying. This may be one of those times that you ride with what you got.

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[LegendKillerOne]

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Guardians continue early season dominance of Royals take 3 of 4

Game 1- Triston McKenzie (1-0) vs Brad Keller (0-1)
Not a lot of excitement in this one as both pitchers were on their A game. The Guardians would get an RBI Sac Fly from Josh Naylor in the first inning and that would be all the scoring in the entire game as the Guardians would win game 1 by the score of 1-0. Triston McKenzie now 2-0 on the season has opened up the season throwing 13 straight scoreless innings. Emmanuel Clase notched his 4th save in 4 attempts for the Guardians

Game 2- Cal Quantrill (0-0) vs Zack Greinke (0-0)
Another game that was a low scoring affair. Quantrill has his best stuff throwing 7 innings allowing only 1 run on 7 hits while striking out 10. The big Ab for the Guardians was a two run homerun from Jose Ramirez who is red hot to start the season and Clase locked down his 5th save in 5 attempts and the Guardains took the game by the score of 3-1 and are moved to 5-0 against the Royals on the season.

Game 3- Zac Pleasac (0-1) vs Daniel Lynch (1-0)
Pleasac struggled early on with his control and giving up a bunch of hits and the Royals jumped out early 3-0 on back to back rbi doubles by Michael Taylor and Drew Waters. However the Royals bullpen would have trouble holding the lead. Daniel Lynch was solid through the first 5 innings until he gave up a 2 run shot to Jose Ramirez in the 6th to cut the lead to 3-2. He was then taken out for the 7th and things fell apart for the Ryoals. Brentz came in and allowed 2 runs before he recorded an out on a 2 out 2 rbi single by Amed Rosario that gave the Guardians a 4-3 lead. They would add another on a Luke Maile single and one more in the 8th on a Framil Reyes RBI Double and the Guardians would complete the comeback win the final 6-3

Game 4- Aaron Civale (1-0) vs Kris Bubic (1-0)
Civale struggled early giving up 3 runs in the 3rd and 1 in the 4th on RBI Double by Edward Olivares and RBI single to Nicky Lopez. All in all he did not have a great day allowing 4 runs on 10 hits in only 6 innings and raising his ERA to 6.75 on the earl season. Bubic on the other hand had the bats off balance all day throwing 6 innings of 3 hit ball while striking out 8. The Royals would get their first win of the season against the Guardians with a 4-1 win moving Bubic to 2-0 on the season Scott Barlow got his second save in as many tries


Indians Notes- Jose Ramirez is off to an MVP type start. He is hitting .375 with 5 homers, 14 rbis, and OPS of over 1.350 and an OBP of .488

Royals Notes- Seems to be some contension in the Royals clubhouse as a heated disagreement was seen between manager Mike Matheny and Hunter Dozier. After the game coach Matheny had this to say "Dozier is a very competetive guy and we are in a rebuild mode. He has only played one game and I can understand the frustration. For us as a franchise we need to see what these young kids can do this season". This situation bares monitoring for the coming month.

AL CENTRAL STANDINGS
Guardians 7-3
White Sox 5-4
Tigers 5-6
Twins 4-6
Royals 3-7

Next up the Guardians (7-3) travel for a quick 2 game set to Cincinnatti to take on the surprising Reds who are (6-4) on the season

[countryboy]

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Cardinals drop series to Diamondbacks

The Cardinals (80-70) dropped 2 games of a 3 game series with the Diamondbacks in St.Louis over the weekend. The Cardinals do remain 1/2 game up on the Reds in the NL Central.

The Cardinals got things started right on Friday night, winning 4-1 over the Diamondbacks and looking good. Unfortunately, Saturday and Sunday were different stories. The Cardinals couldn't hit again and pitching was knocked around.

On Friday, Carlos Martinez maintained his strong 2023 season by earning his 8th win of the season to go along with his top 5 ERA in the National League. Martinez went 7 innings giving up one run on 6 hits and striking out 5. Paul DeJong and Tyler O'Neill both drove in 2 runs to propel the Cards to victory.

On Saturday the bats were cold. Yielding just 2 hits until the 7th inning when Harrison Bader launched a 3 run bomb to cut the lead in half, 6-3, but the Cards would get no closer. Jake Odorizzi was knocked around with 6 ER on 10 hits and only 2 strikeouts.

On Sunday, Matthew Boyd wasn't bad but the bullpen couldn't keep things close. Daniel Norris gave up a 3 run double in the 8th to give the D'Backs a 3-1 lead. They added one more in the 9th on a solo homerun by Seth Beer off of Alex Reyes.

And to make matters worse, the Cardinals lost Yadier Molina for the rest of the year, however long it may last due to a shoulder injury.

The Cardinals will stay home as the Reds come to town for an important 3 game series.

Remaining Schedule:

3 vs Reds
4 vs Mets
2 @ Royals
3 vs Reds

[LegendKillerOne]

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Guardians Swept by Reds in Two Game Set

The Reds continue to shock the world early on this season as they sweep the Guardians and improve to 8-4 on the season. The Reds were predicted in spring to have one of the 4 worst rosters in the league but to this point are surprising everyone.

Game 1- Shane Beiber (1-1 3.95) vs Hunter Greene (0-2 2.19)
Shane Beiber got roughed up for his second straight start allowing 6 runs over 6 innings on 8 hits. he also gave up three homeruns (Stephenson, Votto, Moustakas) and the Reds over matched the Guardians for the 8-1 win. Hunter Green was fabulous limited the Guardians to 4 hits over 7 and a third getting his first pro league win.

Game 2- Tristan McKenzie (2-0 0.00) vs Nick Lodolo (2-0 3.38)
This game would be decided by the bullpens as both starters left the game early due to injury. With the game 0-0 after 3 Reds Starter Nick Lodolo had to leav ethe game with back spasms. That lead to Lucas Sims coming in and giving up two runs on back to back RBI doubles by Jose Ramirez and Framil Reyes. Triston McKenzie piched the first 4 innings scoreless and extended his seasons starting scoreless streak to 17 innings. However in the top of the 5th he also had to leave the game with back stiffness. Heading into the 9th with the Guardians up 2-1 closer Emmanual Clase would blow his first save of the season ona two our rbi hit by Mark Reynolds to send in to extra. In the 10th the Reds would walk it off on a Tyler Stephenson RBI single for a 3-2 Reds winning and the sweep of the two game series.


Guardians Notes- Right now outside of Naylor, Rosario, and Ramirez nobody else is hitting consistently and that needs to change for the Guardians to win. Shane Beiber also needs to show his ace potential

Reds Notes- The Reds were picked in spring to finish with over 100 loses. Right now they are 8-4 and playing well. Asked afer the game if this could be the final season for Joey Votto he said "I have not made any decisions yet. I do know though I want to retire a Red and have no plans to be traded elsewhere"

AL CENTRAL STANDINGS
Guardians 7-5
White Sox 6-6
Twins 6-6
Tigers 6-8
Royals 5-8

Next up the Guardians (7-5) head home for a 7 game home stand. Starting with 3 against the San Francisco Giants (7-6)

[DJ]

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The Toronto Blue Jays are headed to the ALCS!

After falling behind 2-1 to the Rays in the ALDS, the Blue Jays won Game 4 in Toronto 6-2, then won for the second time in the series in Tampa Bay, taking Game 5 by a 5-2 count.

Tied 2-2 in the 8th, Cavan Biggio pushed the Blue Jays ahead with a solo home run, and Vladimir Guerrero Jr. and Teoscar Hernandez went back-to-back in the 9th inning to increase the lead to 3 runs.

Dodgers and Brewers face off in the NLCS.

[LegendKillerOne]

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Guardians Bats Heat Up, Take 2 of 3 from Giants

Game 1- Cal Quantrill (2-0 1.45) vs Alex Wood (0-2 10.80)
Akex Woods rough start to the season for the Giants continued as he was battered early and often only lasting 1 and a third inning giving up 8 runs. The majority of those runs came off the bat of Framil Reyes who hit a 2 run homer in the 1st and a grand slam in the second inning. H finished the day 3 for 5 with 6 rbis. The Guardians went on to win 9-3. Sadly due to a 90 minute rain delay Quantrill only pitched 2 innings. Enyl De Los Santos came in and pitched 4 scoreless innings striking out 8 for the win.

Game 2- Zach Plesac (1-1 6.17) vs Alex Cobb (2-0 2.25)
While Plesac was not great he did battle through giving the team 6 innings of 6 hit ball allowing 3 runs. He was helped out by an offense that kept hitting as Jose Ramirez hit his 7th and 8th homeuns of the season and pushed his average back over .400. That along with #6 Prospect who had been struggling hit his 1st MLB home run of his career and the Guardians went on to win game 2 of the series 8-3

Game 3- Aaron Civale (1-1 6.23) vs Carlos Rondon (1-1 2.53)
With the Guardians looking for the sweep it was not to be as Carlos Rondon was dealing. Rondon had the hitters off balance the entire game. He want 6 innings only allowing 2 hits and striking out 8. The Giants pen held the Guardians hitless and Doval came in for his 7th save in 8 tries. While Civale pitched well he gave up 1 run too many as the Giants hang on for the 2-1 win.


Guardians Notes- Jose Ramirez continues to scorch the baseball. Through 15 games he is now hitting .408 with 8 dingers and 22 rbis.

AL CENTRAL STANDINGS
Guardians 9-6
White Sox 8-7
Tigers 8-9
Twins 7-8
Royals 6-10

Next up the Guardians (9-6) welcome in the Chicago White Sox (8-7) for a big early season 4 game series

[Jeffrey Smith]

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The Toronto Blue Jays are headed to the ALCS!



After falling behind 2-1 to the Rays in the ALDS, the Blue Jays won Game 4 in Toronto 6-2, then won for the second time in the series in Tampa Bay, taking Game 5 by a 5-2 count.



Tied 2-2 in the 8th, Cavan Biggio pushed the Blue Jays ahead with a solo home run, and Vladimir Guerrero Jr. and Teoscar Hernandez went back-to-back in the 9th inning to increase the lead to 3 runs.



Dodgers and Brewers face off in the NLCS.

I only played about 30 or so games in a Jays franchise but I noticed that Biggio is gold in this game. Plays above his ratings.

Congrats.


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