MLB The Show 25 Franchise Discussion

[kdutch98]

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TIGERS EXTEND WIN STREAKTO 9 WITH SWEEP OF WHITE SOX

4/4/25 TIGERS 4 WHITE SOX 2
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<br>The Tigers won their home opener 4-2 over the visiting White Sox. Colt Keith hit his first home run of the season, and drove in 3. Jack Flaherty tossed 7 innings of 2 hit ball, allowing just one run. He struck out 7, and walked 1. Jason Foley earned his 4th save of the season.
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5/5/25 TIGERS 4 WHITE SOX 2
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<br>The White Sox jumped out to a 2-0 lead, but the Tigers came right back, tying it on a pair of RBI singles by Kyle Dutcher, and Spencer Torkelson. The Tigers took the lead in the 7th on Justyn-henry Malloy's first home run of the season. They would add an insurance run on a Parker Meadows RBI single later in the 7th. Detroit would hold on for a 4-2 win. Reese Olson went 7 innings, allowing 2 runs on 6 hits, with 7 strikeouts.
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4/6/25 TIGERS 7 WHITE SOX 2
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<br>Detroit cpmpleted the sweep of the White Sox, with a 7-2 win. Kyle Dutcher (7) homered, and drove in three. Zach McKinstry drove in two. Casey Mize went 6 innings, allowing 2 runs on 6 hits, with 7 strikeouts, earning his first win of the season.
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UP NEXT

The Tigers will host the red hot New York Yankees in a three game series beginning Monday night. The Yankees (7-2) have won 6 straight games. Following this series, the Tigers will be off on Thursday, before heading out on a seven game road trip with 4 in Minnesota, then three in Milwaukee.





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[franch1se]

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Through 10 games the NL West is a mess

San Diego 5-5
Arizona 5-5
Colorado 3-6
LA 3-8
SF 2-7

Despite Jackson Merrill starting slow (0-15) he's since 13-24 and hitting .333 with 2 HR and 8 RBI.
Jason Heyward has found the fountain of youth as he's hitting .371 with 2 HR and 7 RBI. .421 OBP and slugging .686

Manny Machado has been the catalyst on offense hitting .341 with 5 HR and 9 RBI.
Luis Arraez continues to do nothing but hit as he's sitting at .340 himself.

Now we need to get Fernando Tatis Jr going. He's hitting a low .227 with 3 HR.

[thesportsartist]

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Question for yall what sliders are you guys rocking right now? Also do you feel there’s enough home runs? Been playing and feel like there’s a lot of “weak” contact and not many home runs

[MarkL1987]

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Toronto Blue Jays 2025 Season Preview:
Let's just say that Toronto's 2024 season was a complete disappointment, as they went 74-88 and failed to meet the expectations that had been set for them. The main culprit for that was Bo Bichette being injured most of the year, but aside from that, the rest of the offense started slow out of the gate and never really recovered. The offensive aspect did get improved in the offseason, but only slightly with the addition of Anthony Santander. Honestly, the Jays should be lucky they were even able to sign him as every other free agent they chased after chose to go elsewhere. Well, not quite everyone else. They were able to snag Max Scherzer on a one year deal, but at age 40, he's no longer the guy he used to be. If he can provide at least some stability to the rotation, then that should help out Toronto's pitching significantly. The only problem, though, is that three of Toronto's other starting pitchers are also over 30. The only one who's not is Bowden Francis, who finally came into his own during the second half of last season, which included multiple instances in which he took a no-hitter into the ninth inning. As a result of that, he is in strong consideration to get his first ever Opening Day nod. As for the bullpen, they got some help there too with the addition of Jeff Hoffman, who will likely serve as the team's closer. While both the lineup and bullpen certainly look a little better than last season, the pitching staff is a question mark due to their age. However, there is one wild card in consideration and that's Alek Manoah. Once upon a time, he was among the best pitchers in baseball, but has fallen off hard since then and even had to undergo Tommy John last year. If he can stay healthy and get back to where he was, he could possibly earn a rotation spot back at some point this year. For now, he will likely start off in the bullpen as the long man. Overall, while the team is a bit better than last year, they will need their big guys like Vlad, Santander and Bichette to step up if the team is going to have any chance of getting back to the postseason.
Projected record: 83-79

[franch1se]

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what do you guys do with struggling stars? I'm 10-6 now after going on a bit of a run but I Have Tatis hitting .175 right now. Just can't hit with him. Can't really sit him because I don't have anyone else worth playing and he's still one of my best players. I do have 5 HR's with him but thats all I can seem to do, and to be honest most of his hits/HR have been when simmed. Move him down in the lineup? Give an extra day off?

[Bm7414206]

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New save, new me!

I present to you: The 2025 Seattle Mariners

Rotation
1. George Kirby
2. Luis Castillo
3. Logan Gilbert
4. Bryan Woo
5. Bryce Miller

The key piece of the whole club probably. When you look how young 4 of the 5 are you can assume that this won't change too quickly. It will be very interesting to see if one of them can challenge Skubal for the Cy Young this season, there should be multiple candidates in that clubhouse.

Lineup
1. Victor Robles
2. Julio Rodriguez
3. Cal Raleigh
4. Randy Arozarena
5. Luke Raley
6. Donovan Solano (playing 3rd every day)
7. Rowdy Tellez (DH, alternating with Dylan Moore)
8. Jorge Polanco
9. J.P. Crawford

I know we like to talk about how bad the offense of the Mariners is, but honestly there is a lot of potential. J-Rod and Cal Raleigh are probably the best hitters in their position. Robles had a great bounce back season last year, if he continues that he is a very good leadoff guy. Arozarena already showed it at the highest level.
If even one of Polanco or Crawford can bounce back from their injury plagued season the offense should have enough weapons to win a lot of games with that pitching staff behind them. Plus many of them are very good defenders for their positions as well.

Series Recap: The Athletics
Game 1: W 6-2
Game 2: W 6-2
Game 3: L 1-2
Game 4: W 11-1

The Pink Gorilla Games high performer of the series: Julio Rodriguez: 7 hits, 1 HR, 2 RBI, 4 stolen bases

It was a very strong performance across the board. The outlier in game 3 was a weird one, because the offense was there but commited quite a few mistakes on the baserunning department. 2 Mariners were tagged at the homeplate alone, Julio and Raley were caught stealing. The As needed extra innings as well to steal the game from the Mariners.

Of the pitchers George Kirby was the biggest standout with 12Ks in 6.1 innings pitched.

Very strong start, but let's see if the offense is still there with the Tigers coming up, who should make it a lot tougher.

Bring glory to my Mariners lol

I always play as my hometown team, but i can't use the irl team I also have to fantasy draft or i end up trying to recreate real life stuff lol

[Itsma806]

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2025 Houston Astros 03/31-04/02

Overall Record:4-2 (2nd AL West/0.5 behind Seattle)

Game Results:

Game 1
Astros-4
Giants-2

Game 2
Astros-5
Giants-1

Game 3
Astros-6
Giants-4

Astros quadruple first week homerun totals to secure sweep

The Astros had won three straight dating back to their final game of their opening series with the Mets. That streak came via the 7-3 victory over the Mets, a 4-2 win versus San Fran in game one of their second series of 2025 and a 5-1 victory in the second versus the Giants.

Game three saw Framber Valdez make his second start of the year after losing his first. He again saw his team down early in the game after Mike Yastrzemski singled in a run in the first inning to give the Giants the 1-0 lead.

The Astros offense had trouble getting to the Giants starter, Logan Webb but were finally able to get on the board with a two rbi single by Brendan Rodgers in the fifth inning as the Astros took the 2-1 lead.

Webb was takin out in the 6th inning and the Astros after only having one homerun in the first five games, hit two in that inning off of reliever, Tristan Beck to at the time, take the lead, 4-2.

The Giants fought back however as they scored one more off of Valdez and another off of Josh Hader in the ninth to give him his first blown save and to tie the game at 4-4 entering the bottom of the ninth.

Then, Jose Altuve had his first signature moment of 2025 as with two outs and Chas Mccormick on first, Altuve took a Tyler Rogers slider into the Crawford boxes for his first homerun of 2025 and the walkoff 6-4 victory to give the Astros their first sweep of 2025.

Houston (4-2) will now hit the road for the first time in 2025 as they travel to Minnesota (4-2) to take on the Twins in a three game series with a game off in between games one and two.

[Cyrus09]

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Through 10 games the NL West is a mess

San Diego 5-5
Arizona 5-5
Colorado 3-6
LA 3-8
SF 2-7

Despite Jackson Merrill starting slow (0-15) he's since 13-24 and hitting .333 with 2 HR and 8 RBI.
Jason Heyward has found the fountain of youth as he's hitting .371 with 2 HR and 7 RBI. .421 OBP and slugging .686

Manny Machado has been the catalyst on offense hitting .341 with 5 HR and 9 RBI.
Luis Arraez continues to do nothing but hit as he's sitting at .340 himself.

Now we need to get Fernando Tatis Jr going. He's hitting a low .227 with 3 HR.

It really looks like the game doesn't like the Dodgers this year. Every simulation I see they come out of the gates extreme slow.

what do you guys do with struggling stars? I'm 10-6 now after going on a bit of a run but I Have Tatis hitting .175 right now. Just can't hit with him. Can't really sit him because I don't have anyone else worth playing and he's still one of my best players. I do have 5 HR's with him but thats all I can seem to do, and to be honest most of his hits/HR have been when simmed. Move him down in the lineup? Give an extra day off?

I try it with off-days as well and if that doesn't work I change up the lineup a bit. Usually one or the other helps, even though I'm not sure if it wouldn't work if I let everything just play out. I mean, the season is long and a slump here and there should be natural.

[countryboy]

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Cardinals bats no show in Phillies series

The Cardinals (7-8) dropped another series, this time at home to the Phillies. The Cardinals bats were non-existent in the series, although they somehow managed to win Saturday thanks to a single swing by Nolan Gorman, 3 run homerun, after Wynn and Donovan reached via walk and error. The Cardinals were able to win 3-2.

Friday and Sunday the Cardinals scored a total of 3 runs while the Phillies scored 11. The Cardinals bullpen was strong outside of Andre Pallante who gave up 6 runs combined in the series.

The Cardinals will remain home as they welcome the Astros to town for a 3 game series.

[H2UKNOW]

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How do you guys run 30-team franchises? What are your settings and strategy to keep things realistic?

[D Tom]

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How do you guys run 30-team franchises? What are your settings and strategy to keep things realistic?

It's all in the details. Editing lineups and rotations to actually make sense. Adding a little bit of player input into the lineups (like Judge prefers batting second irl, but the game always puts him at 3rd). On top of that, it's good to make sure that realistic trades and free agent pickups happen. You will always see a young player who has A potential being listed by the CPU because it thinks that there's too many players in that position. Last year it was Jackson Holliday who was always on the block. That will not be entertained anytime soon irl.

Also the CPU never bolsters its lineup to account for injuries. Players may go down for multiple months, but the game just wants to call up a ~60 something rated player and keep it moving. Not very realistic for most franchises.

[kinsmen7]

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How do you guys run 30-team franchises? What are your settings and strategy to keep things realistic?

I have the CPU profile all set to auto, and for the most part, I let the rest of the league run on it's own.

The few things that I will tinker with throughout the year is if there are some ridiculous trades...like @D Tom mentioned, Jackson Holliday is ALWAYS on the block in '24 (I've seen some people post about him again in '25 which is wild), but if there are just some random trades, or a team is loading up for the playoff run, I'll let a lot slide.

Another thing that I'll touch once in a while is a CPU team's 40 man roster...If there's a real-life prospect that's called up and is playing well, I'll add him and/or do a little ratings adjustment. Progression/regression has never been *great* in this game, so I like to help out once in a while.

At the end of the day, I know it sounds a bit overwhelming for some when you talk about controlling all 30 teams, but I'd say I actually deal with another team once every 15-20 games...I don't really care how their lineups are set up, but I also want to make sure that most teams have 8 relievers in the pen.

[Flightwhite24]

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Does anyone have a link to set up 30 team control? I struggle getting this set up every year. I’m ready to start my season now. Thanks


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[Cyrus09]

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Pink Gorilla high performer? Is this a you thing or is this something in the presentation package?

That is totally a me thing. I thought about picking a sponsor for that "segment" since that is a 2025 sports thing to do. Pink Gorilla Games is a very cool(from the looks of it) used game store in Seattle that is not just all about profit. Plus the owner is a very cool content creator AND a huge baseball fan. So that was a very fitting choice!

So, the journey continues...

The 2025 Seattle Mariners

Series Recap: Detroit Tigers
Game 1: W 4-1
Game 2: L 1-3
Game 3: L 1-4
The Pink Gorilla Games high performer of the series: Julio Rodriguez: 7 hits, 1 HR, 2 RBI, 3 stolen bases

The first game was a very strong one: Bryce Miller pitched 6 scoreless innings with 7 strikeouts and only 5 hits and 1 walk. Julio stole 2 bases and went 4/4, scoring 2 runs of the 4 for the Mariners.

The second game was a sign, to what could be the problem this season: The bench is very rough for Seattle. Tellez rotated in at 1st, Canzone in right field, Ryan Bliss played 2nd due to fatigue to the main guys and it couldn't go worse to start. In the first inning the Tigers got on base because Tellez first couldn't catch a throw out to first after a pitch in the dirt strikeout. The next play Canzone struggled with a fly ball near the wall and the Tigers scored from that.
On offense the Mariners just could not hit against Manning with only 5 hits in 6.1 innings and just 1 against the bullpen for the rest of the game. With so many replacements in the lineup it was tough to get anything going. The 4 bench players combined for 1 hit.

Game 3 you could call a schedule loss, because that was the Skubal start. He pitched 6 innings with 7 strikeouts and only allowed 2 hits all game. On the other end Riley Greene had a great day, scoring 2 HR of Gregory Santos and Shintaro Fujinami. The two had to go multiple innings because starter Luis Castillo had to leave the game in the first inning with a strained pec. He will miss at least 1 start for sure with that injury, maybe 2. That is a tough one as well, since the Mariners don't really have depth behind the 5 starters. Emerson Hancock will get a chance as the replacement.

It was a tough series, because it really showed the problems with the depth in a brutal fashion. It is okay to give up the DH spot from time to time, but if you need to replace at least one player for rest reasons the offense collapses.

Next up is a series at the Giants, another tough matchup for our offense. At least there is a rest day inbetween, so maybe not that many replacements necessary to start the series.

[countryboy]

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Cardinals drop series to Astros as woes continue

The Cardinals (8-10) dropped another series, this time to the Astros at home in St.Louis. The only silver lining is that no one in NL Central seems excited to play above .500 baseball, so the Cardinals are only 2 back of the leaders.

This series was just bad all the way around. Hitting wasn't good, pitching wasn't good, defense wasn't good (5 errors in series), the hot dogs weren't good, the drinks weren't good, the weather wasn't good (rained 2 out of 3 games). The series was bad, but yet the Cardinals found a way to win a game, mainly because the Astros weren't that much better.

The Cardinals need production from several positions, and oddly enough the all 3 reside in the outfield. Nootbaar is hitting under .180, Scott and Siani are hitting below .140, and Walker is right at .200. 33% of your lineup is really struggling and the other 2/3 of the lineup isn't much better. Mix that with a rotation that just can't get deep into a game consistently and you're asking for it to be a very long season.

The Cardinals will hit the road as they travel to Queens for a 4 game series with the Mets over the weekend before heading to Atlanta for 3 with the Braves.

Maybe a road trip is just what this team needs.