MLB 14 The Show: Road to the Show Thread

[kcchiefs1984]

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I can't speak to specifics but mine has changed. I began with a C. It remained that way until near the end of my second season. It is now a B. I was rated around 79 or 80 iirc when it changed. To be honest though I don't think it makes a great deal of difference to the game itself. It may have some impact on how you are viewed by the team you play for but if you're at 85 player for example I am sure you will play regardless.

Thanks for the reply. It's good to know it should eventually go up. I am currently the highest rated CF on the club but still playing behind Bradley Jr. He is rated 65 with a B potential so I feel teams take may take potential into account when allocating playing time. I shouldn't have partied so much during the showcase weekend.

[Andrews]

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Yeah, same here. And this is also an issue when playing the field. If I'm running for a ball over my head and my player (CF) misses the catch, instead of continuing to run toward the wall, where the ball is, he is now running toward the infield because the camera has swung around. And is momentum is such that, by the time I correct it, the double has turned into a triple, if not an inside the park homerun.

I agree that this is a big problem. My CF has given up so many triples and inside the park home runs that I realized my team can't win with me playing the outfield. With no real option to practise fielding, I gave up on playing the outfield and switched to an infield position.

[timmermac]

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For those that have issues with fielding, have you checked to see if fielding opportunities can be simmed? I've been playing the Show this way for a couple of years now, and it keeps the embarrasment quotient to a minimum.

[Andrews]

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For those that have issues with fielding, have you checked to see if fielding opportunities can be simmed? I've been playing the Show this way for a couple of years now, and it keeps the embarrasment quotient to a minimum.

You can sim the fielding situations, either all of them or specific ones. With all the errors and my lack of confidence, I started to sim fielding oppurtunities with runners on base or when the game was on the line. It just felt so cheesy that I could not rely on my own skills to do the job in the field. Also, if you just sim all fielding you will miss out on a significant amount of expereince points to make your player better.

I am doing much better at second base and I am filling a real need on the SF Giants as Angel Pagan can step back into the CF role and the former starting 2B player (Marco Scutaro) skills decresed quickly from aging after one season.

[dhuck20]

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Does anyone know for sure how the "Request Trade" works? I requested one, as I am not with a promising organization at 3B (Evan Longoria and all lol). Thought about changing positions, but don't really prefer to. Well, after a couple games, the option to request a trade came back. No message or anything. I'm new to the Show, so i assume this is normal.

[PhilliesFan13]

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Does anyone know for sure how the "Request Trade" works? I requested one, as I am not with a promising organization at 3B (Evan Longoria and all lol). Thought about changing positions, but don't really prefer to. Well, after a couple games, the option to request a trade came back. No message or anything. I'm new to the Show, so i assume this is normal.

Every so often the request becomes available. You just have to check the interactions page now and then and see if it's there.

[Mrmagoo]

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Thought I'd chime in in once. I'm in April of my third year, I've gone back n forth between B and C potential and right now I'm C 86. First year was with the Marlins, didn't seem like the team was going anywhere, no good trades and about 10 games below. 500,so I asked to be traded, got traded to the redsox at the trade deadline... Welp... All I can say is the grass isn't always greener on the other side . Finished the first year with Boston with a 56-106 record. Second year started with a 13 game losing streak, and stand at 1-21 right now. The one game we won is the only game I didn't play in. (... Lol. Great game though!!! But boy does the trade logic need some tweaks... Wow!! Also there isn't one person on the team that's left from the original redsox.... Smh. Btw I'm a second base man in my RTTS. I'm sure there's nobody out there that can beat that record tho...

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[Mrmagoo]

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Btw I'm the highest rated player on the team, next is a 76 overall..

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[Mrmagoo]

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And wouldn't ya know it, right after my first post above I checked to see if the option to ask for a trade was there and it finally was. No doubt I want out, so I asked to be traded and it said as soon as we get an offer that works for both teams they'll do it. So next game.... We win... Lol first game I played in that we won!! Whatever... Guess we'll see where I end up, but it's got to be better than in Boston... Ugh, as much as I like bouncing balls off the green monster... I'm still taking the first train to Clarksville!!

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[olig23]

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Since I played so much RTTS over the long weekend I have to get this caught up, lest there be a hole in the biography of Oliver Thornton, Centre Fielder, of the International Region. It would be akin to a hole in time itself after all, for here are the transformative years, before the emergence from the cacoon of minor league ball and into stardom. These times are so often lost in history. Baseball writers and Canton's historians may one day revel in these documents as primary source material on how a true great, drafted in the fourth round no less, can come to exist...

Turns out, all you have to do is dangle marvelous maritime munch close enough that it can be smelled but not tasted and then whip it away in a brutal, sadistic flourish (or email). Perhaps honing your skills, fighting for the prize, a prize which while difficult to attain (and let's be clear, we are talking about Sushi here) is still coaxing you on to greatness, is a part of that path. But of equal importance perhaps, is the rendering of your dreams (to eat the Sushi) to an impossibility. Crushing them with disdain and violent immediacy is what turns steadily honed skills and talent from a good player into a superstar. Toughened and renewed.

That, of course, is not what Oliver Thornton was feeling as Comptacoma disappears into the rear-view mirror for the final time, but maybe this document will serve as a marker. A point in which the flaccidity of that AAA championship or the minds eye, so far always looking for the greener pasture, became focused on the pain, the drive to be better and say... YOU SHOULD HAVE GIVEN ME THE SUSHI.

Oliver Thornton, heads to the airport. A new home awaits.

At this juncture I feel it's wise to offer links of prior posts, you know, for context...

Part 1: Give me my Sushi, of the International Region
Part 2: 74 walks in the hills of Comptacoma
Part 3: So hot right now

Oliver Thornton stepped off the plane at Gwinnett County Airport, Just out of Lawrencevillle, Georgia. The air is humid. It's hot. This is not the Brit friendly climes of North West Washington State. Not a rain cloud in sight. Not today anyway. He had some experience of this abominable weather though having resided in Jackson, Tennessee only 5 and half hours North West for six months with the Jackson Generals. A much simpler time. I could have called Meryl Streep to to let her know I was back in the area, but after watching Death Becomes Her on the flight something said it was best to leave the past dead and buried.

On the flight over, and subsequent taxi to his new digs, Oliver Thornton gave some thought to what a permanent life in Atlanta represented. No food to speak of, not to my knowledge anyway. I'm sure there is something good. But it''s not the sushi. It's not a intrinsic motivator like that was. Panic sets in. There is Athens, Georgia up the road. IIRC the home of REM. Not too bad. Better than bloody grunge. But Once you've listen to Automatic For the People I think you are always scraping the barrel on subsequent records. There's the bloody Falcons. Not a fan. I like Matt Ryan, but in the kind of way you like water. You realize it's good for you, it's in fact quite important for your long term success, but overall it's not what you want when you want to be happy, I can't imagine going to some wild party and taking Matt Ryan. You just know he's chatting to dudes all evening and regaling them with tales of this brilliant audible he called last season. Screw that. The hockey team left, for Winnipeg of all places, soooooo. Then there's the Hawks. Who wants to hang out with basketball players?? It must be the most soul destroying thing a person can do. I made my guy 6,1 (which in truth is a good few inches taller than his omnipotent creator) and yet a night out with the Hawks roster and you're the short guy who can't jump... if Wesley Snipes is to be believed.

The phrase SO HOT RIGHT NOW has never been more relevant. It applies to both my armpits and my statistical output. After a rocky game or two I am tearing it up! .372 average and hitting for some serious power. I make quick friends in my #4 spot man-sandwiched between the speedy and contact...ful Gil Cairo and the swing happy Wayne Simmons. We become quite the trio. My stats are rolling in and the training points along with them. Proving the Mariners wrong is the motivation.

By the time the all star game rolls around, I am in the lineup. I play in my first major league stadium. The Great American Ballpark in Cincinatti. It's beautiful. I know it has a reputation as a hitters park, I'm crushing it in batting practice. Alas, it wasn't to be that I had a career defining moment. I did though, go 2 for 4 with a single and an RBI double. Turns out you get double training points too. Which makes the next moment all the more sweet. Guess who's at bat? It's Chris I'm so hot right now Dickinson of the Tacoma Rainiers. Bringing with him his massive .240 average. The ****er lofts one to shallow left-centre... I'm running. Not looking good. Screw it, hit the dive button. No chance in hell. I usually end up jumping in the air when I mean to dive. But not today, like the proverbial salmon Thornton leaps under the ball and gets it for the out. Hand in the air to show that he made the catch. Double training points bitch. Flip him the middle finger as I throw to the second base man Senor Martinez. All star moment.

However, it's not all rosy. This Jason Heyward fella. What the hell is that all about. He's obscene. In a good way. The kind of good way that means I'll never play major league ball. He's a freak. Hitting for 33 homers, with a .325 average and won the NL Gold glove. He's 87 overall with an adjusted of 93. Sick. How an I going to usurp this beast?? I know, I can "play" Left Field (at least my profile says so)... but no. Justin Upton. He's awesome too. Meh. Maybe I'll request a trade in the summer.

Not only that, there's the Durham Bulls. First off, no guy called Crash in the lineup. Gutted. Although there was some flame throwing idiot on the mound. Nonetheless, the real issue was their stadium. It's huge. 375 feet to the right-field porch. Could not hit for toffee in that stadium. "Fly ball, deeeeeep!!! aaannnnnddd it's caught at the wall" So sick of that shiz.

Anyway, despite my lack of ABs over the whole season I wind up second in the league in Home Runs with 30. Yes. 3 - 0!!! Thirty. With 94 RBIs (2nd in AAA ball) and a .355 batting average. I also am tired for 2nd in triples and 12th in doubles in all AAA ball. I would have also been first in batting average but I apparently did not have enough qualifying ABs. felt I could have led the league in home runs, the league leader hit 32, but we closed the season with a road series against the damned Durham Bulls in their ridiculous stadium.

By this stage my guy is 79 overall. His 80 power vs RHP is a most significant strength. Let's not talk about his bunting skills...

We won our division at a canter. With the Bulls 9.5 games back in 2nd. We then went on to destroy all comers in the playoffs.I'm a AAA god. Winning my second AAA Championship in two seasons, on two different teams. We met the Nashville Sounds in the championship game. It was a simple 6-2 victory. In the playoffs, Thornton had a .400 (on the button) average with three Homers and 11 RBIs. Not too shabby.

And that's it for another season.

Actually no.

What the ****!!!

I receive one of those emails.

My contact has been purchased by the Atlanta Braves, I'm headed to The Show.

[mrbenjamin]

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question for anyone that can help... it seems like im losing more attributes than i am able to gain through rtts. Im a closer in the minors and have been playing lights out. I have so many red arrows on my attributes and its hard to keep up when im trying to upgrade pitches.

is this normal? am i doing something wrong? thanks for any help first time playing the show in many years.

[timmermac]

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You have to train your attributes about once every couple of months (as of last year's version. I don't have '14 yet, so I don't know if this has changed) in order to keep them from declining.

[DracoAres]

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The highest I was EVER drafted was a few days ago (started over because i didn't approve of how they where handling my player after 1 full year) was 1st by the Astros as a speedy/contact CF with a little power (full speed, 4 bars in contact, 2 in power). had a good showcase, dont remember my stats from showcase but a few doubles and triples no homeruns and 3 or 4 RBIs. was shocked and going to try to reproduce that as a different position, being drafted 1st overall is really rare from most of my testing. highest before that was 3rd to the White Sox as a balanced (all stats the same) 3B.

[acts238shaun]

Re: MLB 14 The Show: Road to the Show Thread

Since I played so much RTTS over the long weekend I have to get this caught up, lest there be a hole in the biography of Oliver Thornton, Centre Fielder, of the International Region. It would be akin to a hole in time itself after all, for here are the transformative years, before the emergence from the cacoon of minor league ball and into stardom. These times are so often lost in history. Baseball writers and Canton's historians may one day revel in these documents as primary source material on how a true great, drafted in the fourth round no less, can come to exist...

Turns out, all you have to do is dangle marvelous maritime munch close enough that it can be smelled but not tasted and then whip it away in a brutal, sadistic flourish (or email). Perhaps honing your skills, fighting for the prize, a prize which while difficult to attain (and let's be clear, we are talking about Sushi here) is still coaxing you on to greatness, is a part of that path. But of equal importance perhaps, is the rendering of your dreams (to eat the Sushi) to an impossibility. Crushing them with disdain and violent immediacy is what turns steadily honed skills and talent from a good player into a superstar. Toughened and renewed.

That, of course, is not what Oliver Thornton was feeling as Comptacoma disappears into the rear-view mirror for the final time, but maybe this document will serve as a marker. A point in which the flaccidity of that AAA championship or the minds eye, so far always looking for the greener pasture, became focused on the pain, the drive to be better and say... YOU SHOULD HAVE GIVEN ME THE SUSHI.

Oliver Thornton, heads to the airport. A new home awaits.

At this juncture I feel it's wise to offer links of prior posts, you know, for context...

Part 1: Give me my Sushi, of the International Region
Part 2: 74 walks in the hills of Comptacoma
Part 3: So hot right now

Oliver Thornton stepped off the plane at Gwinnett County Airport, Just out of Lawrencevillle, Georgia. The air is humid. It's hot. This is not the Brit friendly climes of North West Washington State. Not a rain cloud in sight. Not today anyway. He had some experience of this abominable weather though having resided in Jackson, Tennessee only 5 and half hours North West for six months with the Jackson Generals. A much simpler time. I could have called Meryl Streep to to let her know I was back in the area, but after watching Death Becomes Her on the flight something said it was best to leave the past dead and buried.

On the flight over, and subsequent taxi to his new digs, Oliver Thornton gave some thought to what a permanent life in Atlanta represented. No food to speak of, not to my knowledge anyway. I'm sure there is something good. But it''s not the sushi. It's not a intrinsic motivator like that was. Panic sets in. There is Athens, Georgia up the road. IIRC the home of REM. Not too bad. Better than bloody grunge. But Once you've listen to Automatic For the People I think you are always scraping the barrel on subsequent records. There's the bloody Falcons. Not a fan. I like Matt Ryan, but in the kind of way you like water. You realize it's good for you, it's in fact quite important for your long term success, but overall it's not what you want when you want to be happy, I can't imagine going to some wild party and taking Matt Ryan. You just know he's chatting to dudes all evening and regaling them with tales of this brilliant audible he called last season. Screw that. The hockey team left, for Winnipeg of all places, soooooo. Then there's the Hawks. Who wants to hang out with basketball players?? It must be the most soul destroying thing a person can do. I made my guy 6,1 (which in truth is a good few inches taller than his omnipotent creator) and yet a night out with the Hawks roster and you're the short guy who can't jump... if Wesley Snipes is to be believed.

The phrase SO HOT RIGHT NOW has never been more relevant. It applies to both my armpits and my statistical output. After a rocky game or two I am tearing it up! .372 average and hitting for some serious power. I make quick friends in my #4 spot man-sandwiched between the speedy and contact...ful Gil Cairo and the swing happy Wayne Simmons. We become quite the trio. My stats are rolling in and the training points along with them. Proving the Mariners wrong is the motivation.

By the time the all star game rolls around, I am in the lineup. I play in my first major league stadium. The Great American Ballpark in Cincinatti. It's beautiful. I know it has a reputation as a hitters park, I'm crushing it in batting practice. Alas, it wasn't to be that I had a career defining moment. I did though, go 2 for 4 with a single and an RBI double. Turns out you get double training points too. Which makes the next moment all the more sweet. Guess who's at bat? It's Chris I'm so hot right now Dickinson of the Tacoma Rainiers. Bringing with him his massive .240 average. The ****er lofts one to shallow left-centre... I'm running. Not looking good. Screw it, hit the dive button. No chance in hell. I usually end up jumping in the air when I mean to dive. But not today, like the proverbial salmon Thornton leaps under the ball and gets it for the out. Hand in the air to show that he made the catch. Double training points bitch. Flip him the middle finger as I throw to the second base man Senor Martinez. All star moment.

However, it's not all rosy. This Jason Heyward fella. What the hell is that all about. He's obscene. In a good way. The kind of good way that means I'll never play major league ball. He's a freak. Hitting for 33 homers, with a .325 average and won the NL Gold glove. He's 87 overall with an adjusted of 93. Sick. How an I going to usurp this beast?? I know, I can "play" Left Field (at least my profile says so)... but no. Justin Upton. He's awesome too. Meh. Maybe I'll request a trade in the summer.

Not only that, there's the Durham Bulls. First off, no guy called Crash in the lineup. Gutted. Although there was some flame throwing idiot on the mound. Nonetheless, the real issue was their stadium. It's huge. 375 feet to the right-field porch. Could not hit for toffee in that stadium. "Fly ball, deeeeeep!!! aaannnnnddd it's caught at the wall" So sick of that shiz.

Anyway, despite my lack of ABs over the whole season I wind up second in the league in Home Runs with 30. Yes. 3 - 0!!! Thirty. With 94 RBIs (2nd in AAA ball) and a .355 batting average. I also am tired for 2nd in triples and 12th in doubles in all AAA ball. I would have also been first in batting average but I apparently did not have enough qualifying ABs. felt I could have led the league in home runs, the league leader hit 32, but we closed the season with a road series against the damned Durham Bulls in their ridiculous stadium.

By this stage my guy is 79 overall. His 80 power vs RHP is a most significant strength. Let's not talk about his bunting skills...

We won our division at a canter. With the Bulls 9.5 games back in 2nd. We then went on to destroy all comers in the playoffs.I'm a AAA god. Winning my second AAA Championship in two seasons, on two different teams. We met the Nashville Sounds in the championship game. It was a simple 6-2 victory. In the playoffs, Thornton had a .400 (on the button) average with three Homers and 11 RBIs. Not too shabby.

And that's it for another season.

Actually no.

What the ****!!!

I receive one of those emails.

My contact has been purchased by the Atlanta Braves, I'm headed to The Show.

A) Death Becomes Her, Devil Wears Prada - same movie, only swapping Bruce Willis for Stanley Tucci

B)

C) Ask for a move to 2nd - I won't get my copy til next week but I am sure Uggla's overall is horrible.

D) Way to go Olig! You really should post this in the dynasty section.

[acts238shaun]

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Question - when you base your player on an existing MLB'er, which player/type of player starts you off with the highest overall?