MLB 14 The Show: Road to the Show Thread

[DownTownMcHale]

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H E L P !

Okay, I've done a few RTTS now and I've just gotten bored after one season and want to start another one, the highest overall I've gotten to is a 68 I just need help on to have more fun in this mode because I do enjoy it very much. So if there's any tips out there how to have more fun or any storyline you could give my player that would be awesome!

P.S. I won't be starting my new RTTS until the full minors are complete and I will be using TNK's sliders

[olig23]

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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.

Being a lefty, it has always been my understanding that that it's either 1st or the OF if I want to keep things realistic. The Rainiers did put me on third for two games once. Fortunately I never had to field anything.

Thanks for the reply mate.

[olig23]

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So, as mentioned at the beginning of the week, a lot happened to the career of Oliver Thornton, Centre Fielder, of the International Region... As it turns out the extended weekend has led to three lengthy posts. Who'd have thought it? However, this will bring me up to date, at least for now.

Here are links to the previous posts:
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
Part 4: Chris Dickinson, how's your average?

The habit here has become one in which Oliver Thornton examines his inner-self, his feelings on his situation and offers an overall insight into his mental well-being. Today though, there is no time for that.

Thornton leaves, his small rental apartment (all he can afford with his $80k salary and significant gambling debts owed from his road trip to Vegas last season) on the outskirts of Lawrenceville, Georgia and drives to South Atlanta, heading to the majors. He's nervous. For the first time in his career. Thornton thinks he is ready for this, but you hear so much about how much tougher it is in the majors. Plus the hazing and all the old school baseball attitudes when it comes to rookies. It's going to be a lot to deal with.

Now, you might be asking, why the haste? He's got a whole off-season to relocate and familiarize himself with his team-mates. A reasonable question. But with a faulty assumption. The Major League season is still going. To be more specific the MLB playoffs are just about to begin.

There is nothing like being thrown in at the deep end, and Oliver Thornton feels like he's been dropped into the Mariana Trench. As the AAA season ends and his teammates go home for a well earned rest. He is preparing to take on the NL Central Champs, the Chicago Cubs, in the first round of the playoffs.

Naturally, Thornton does not get a place in the starting lineup. However, he is a daily pinch hitter. The Braves go on to sweep the Cubs in three games. Thornton gets 0 hits in three ABs. Each time pinch hitting for BJ Upton.

Even sitting in the dugout is intimidating. Jason Heyward is a physical specimen like no other! He's also playing like a demi-God. He finished the season in third place in the NL MVP race finishing over .300 with 30 odd homer runs.

There is a lot of spitting. It's like the Ganges on the dugout floor. Peer pressure compels me to join in. It was a mistake. I spit. It's that thick, stringy stuff. If you've ever played swingball, you'll know what I mean when I say that you hit it and the ball extends the string to it's maximum tension. The power on the ball just dies and it falls back to the post. It's a sad time. Well my spit attempt was very similar. It left my mouth with velocity but hit a seemingly invisible wall, swung south and hit me on the chin. I looked like a pre-school child drooling all over myself. Freddie Freeman seemed amused.

I try to lighten the mood and go full American on my team-mates. I start using words like "yo" and "dawg", I know they are not words, but it seems to help. I buy a fake pistol. Start polishing it at my locker every day. Nobody seems to notice. Buy a fake rifle from a carny, people notice more. I decide to ramp it up a notch. Start espousing libertarian ideas while cleaning my rifle (which I named Meryl) "The man cannot take away my libertaaaay" I shout. For the most part nobody cares. Justin Upton says I remind him of Tim Thomas. I'm sure that's a compliment.

I'm Sat next to Freddie Freeman, his locker is next to mine, he seems like a nice bloke reminds me of that guy from Parks and Rec. The friendly one that plays in a band and is like a human Labrador. One of the starting pitchers wanders by. I decide to ingratiate myself further in the locker room banter. "Yo dawgggg it's my man from Iran Julio Tehran!!!" Offer my hand in greeting. He looks unhappy. Not really sure why. His ERA is below 2 for god's sake!

Turns out he's Colombian. Not Iranian. If I met a dude called Brian Bogota I'd think he might be Colombian. That's all I'm saying. Freddie freeman seemed amused though.

After the spituation in the dugout I couldn't wait to escape. Thankfully it was time for me to pinch hit. It's game 2 of the series with San Francisco (I went 0 for 1 in Game 1). We're on the road. It's a lovely stadium. I will always know it as Pac Bell, despite what it says in the out-field. It all happened so fast that I was still dripping saliva from my chin. I can only assume the pitcher took that as some sort of primordially motivated hunger to destroy not only his pitching but his life. Whatever the case it did the trick. HOME RUN! My first Major League long ball. Very happy. I went 1-2 in the subsequent games as the Braves win the series in four. I am going, believe it or not, to the WORLD FRICKIN SERIES.

The match-up is with the Tampa Bay Rays. Game 1 iis at Tropicana Field. It's a rubbish stadium #justsayin. I'm in the STARTING LINEUP in the WORLD SERIES. I'm playing DH. I believe I overheard the Rays Manager saying to my manager "My stadium, my rules or we all just go home". It seemed a bit childish but we had to play with "American" League rules in Tampa. Boooring.

David Price is sick. I can't hit lefties at the best of times but this is ridiculous. Faced him three times. Two strikeouts and a grouder into a double play. The Rays kill the Braves 7-2.

Game two, I'm feeling things should improve from here on out. I'm DH again. Matt Moore on the pitcher. "Let's take a look at the guys on the mound" Says the commentary. I nod knowingly, let's look indeed. Gutted. Matt Moore LHP. God-damn. 0 for 4. Matt Moore pitches a complete game. Giving up 1 earned run (and another he obviously did not deserve) The Rays win 3-2.

Two games in Tampa. Two left handed pitchers. We go back to Atlanta. Everyone there is right-handed. Of course, I can't DH in Atlanta. Our manager childishly forces the Rays to play by his rules at his house. It's like school all over again. I'm pinch hitting. Exciting.

Over the next two games I do ok. 2 for 2. One single. One double. The Braves lose both games, and the World Series in a 4-0 sweep by the World Champion Tampa Bay Rays.

Now the off season begins. I feel a bit in limbo. I'm not sure if the Braves moved me up temporarily, was there an injury? I guess we won't know until next year for sure.

Maybe now is a good time to have a look around the league over the past few seasons. Specifically in terms of awards:

The NL MVP in 2015 was Paul Goldschmidt. In 2014 it was Troy Tulowitzki of Colorado. The AL MVP has become the Miguel Cabrara award.

The Cy Young in the NL went to Clayton Kershaw in 2014 followed by Jordan Zimmerman in 2015. In the AL it went to Yu Darvish in 2014 and Chris Sale in 2015.

The offseason is far happier than previous ones. The Braves offer me a contract. 1 year. $500k!!! and more importantly... MLB Starter... what??? How?? This is the NL?? Does the GM think we're playing Tampa rules?

Then comes Spring training. I simmed it to be honest. Now, I have strict no simming policy in general. However, I don't mind with Spring training for two reasons. 1. I play all 168 games. Plus I just played two playoffs. Meaningless games don't interest me. 2. I can't bear playing in any more crap stadiums. I've moved to The Show. I want my early settling in period in the pros to be done while having the vibe of high gloss major league stadiums.

By the time the regular season rolls around my guy is 81 overall. His 83 power vs RHP is his biggest tool.

Game 1 vs Miami. 0 for 3. Game 2 vs Miami 1 for 4. Game 3 vs Miami. Ouch! What the ****!!!. Injured. 2 months. Fractured something or another. Great.

Miss two months. But I am immediately back in the starting lineup. Awesome. I start in Centre Field. Turns out the Braves were willing to move Heyward to LF, released BJ Upton and moved Justin Upton to RF.

It's now just passed the All star break. I have 9 Homer Runs, and am hitting around .255. I had one nice game where I hit back to back homers against the Mets. I also hit a nice three run homer of Tim Lincecum. Me and Freddie Freeman are becoming good pals. He's ridiculous. He leads the league in home runs. Jason Heyward is struggling so far with a .235 average and only 8 home runs (I have more with literally 50% of the games played). Justin Upton is one of the league leaders in Batting average. Simmons hits for decent power too from SS. The rest of the lineup consists of two others who I think are rookies at 2nd and 3rd (One is called something Beltran and the other Martinez). Gattis is catcher, although Bethancourt, whom I played with in Gwinett gets the odd game.

A few other things of note:

The Braves are awesome. They are 9.5 games clear in the East.

They hit for good power (3rd in the MLB) but are otherwise very average in offence.

Pitching however is crazy good. Julio Tehran is front runner for the Cy Young at halfway. He's just killing it. Not far behind him is Mike Minor. He pitched a no hitter in one game i played. Then there's Medlan who is actually top of the rotation. All three have ERAs below 3. The fourth guy Wood is good too. Beachy is fifth. He's not bad. They still have a ridiculous closer in Kimbral too.

Some random moves I noticed. CC Sabathia now plays for the Cubs. Chris Davis now smashes them out of the park in Philly (who lost Rollins, Howard and Utley to retirement). The San Francisco Giants love catchers. They have Brian McCann, Buster Posey and Joe Mauer. Granted, they use Mauer at first, but still.

That's all for now. Finally up to date... I'm going to work on relations with Julio Tehran. See you later.

[acts238shaun]

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Being a lefty, it has always been my understanding that that it's either 1st or the OF if I want to keep things realistic. The Rainiers did put me on third for two games once. Fortunately I never had to field anything.

Thanks for the reply mate.

I forgot about B.J. not hitting his weight in the ATL. You shoould be good to go at CF Oli!

[acts238shaun]

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I try to lighten the mood and go full American on my team-mates. I start using words like "yo" and "dawg", I know they are not words, but it seems to help. I buy a fake pistol. Start polishing it at my locker every day. Nobody seems to notice. Buy a fake rifle from a carny, people notice more. I decide to ramp it up a notch. Start espousing libertarian ideas while cleaning my rifle (which I named Meryl) "The man cannot take away my libertaaaay" I shout. For the most part nobody cares. Justin Upton says I remind him of Tim Thomas. I'm sure that's a compliment.

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[Madden's Jowels]

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The only reason I'm still subscribed to this thread is to read the tales of Oliver Thornton

[ckittle2518]

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The only reason I'm still subscribed to this thread is to read the tales of Oliver Thornton

agreed. i dont even post about what my rtts is doing. it fails in comparision to Sir Oliver Thornton

[Hokie200proof]

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Does potential really mean anything? I bombed the showcase games and ended up going in the 7th round, didn't really care and kept playing and I immediately picked up the timing, eye for batting and I'm lighting up AA. My guy is around a 65 ovr but his potential is a D... does that matter? Do I get less points for tasks because my potential sucks? Am I stuck in AA no matter how well I play or hit? I was reading a bunch of the early posts and the I think I saw the dev say that potential "A" players were on the fast track to the MLB or something like that. Anyone have any insight more than that?

[acts238shaun]

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I tested a few RTTS's to see what kind of overall ratings you would get by choosing some of the top guys and here are a few results.


Mike Trout - 51 overall
Contact was in the 20's, Power in the 30's, Speed was 90 & fielding ranged from high 30's to high 40's


Miguel Cabrera - 50 overall
Contact in the 40's, Power in the 40's


Dustin Pedroia - 57 overall first creation, 56 overall second creation after changing height to 6'2 and adding second position SS
Contact was in the 40's, Power in the 20's & fielding was in the mid 40's to low 50's


Buster Posey - 57 overall first creation, 58 overall after changing second position to OF
Contact was in the 40's, Power in the mid 30's and fielding in the mid 40's to 50's


These were the main guys that I really got a good look at. I did try some other guys like Longoria, Cano, Harper, Cargo, Pujols, Votto, McCutchen but surprisingly they were all lower overalls then the above mentioned names. So, so far it seems that Buster Posey or at least for me is the best overall player to start out with but the downfall being you will have to start out as a catcher.


I compared those ratings to the ratings of just creating a player and did not notice huge differences just starting out.


When I initially heard that you would be able to model yourself after an MLB player I thought you would start out better especially if you choose Trout, Cabrera etc. but that doesn't seem to be the case. Not sure if the results will/would be different for each person but those are what I have experienced.


I would like to see what other ratings people are getting if you have tried.

Found this. Thanks!

[AZBirdGang]

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Created a 6'2" SS and did amazing through the Showcase. I had a OVR of 56 I believe with B potential. I got drafted 17th or 18th can't remember exactly the pick but it was to the Yankee's. Never go to college its a waste. If you go 4 years to the university it is a waste because you can make those 600 points easily within the first month or two in the minors. But anyways, Spent my first year in AA as the Yankees had an already good prospect in the Triple AAA spot (22YR 68 OVR performing at 73 with A potential). But lucky me they traded him at the end of the first season and Derek Jeter retired after that year and they just had some garbage old guys with low 70's overalls. I worked my way to a 69 OVR by the end of the first year. Now onto Year 2, I played maybe 3 weeks in Double AA before getting called up into Triple AAA and then within two weeks I got called up to the MLB!. Starting Game I had 4 AB SO on the 1st and 2 line drives that where caught but on my 4th at bat game was tied top of the 11th I nail a first hit home run to get us ahead and then our pitcher closed out the bottom talk about awesome. Did fairly well my first year and by the beginning of my 2nd year now 20yrs old my potential is still a B but im a 79 OVR. Gotta say my guy is a beast. Right handed power is at 75 all others are at 55 for batting Vision fielding and all that good jazz is all at 70+ and im only 20 years old got a long successful career ahead of me!

[BigBlue72]

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Okay, I'm not sure exactly where to post this, because I don't know if this is a bug or not. It happened in RTTS though.

I hit a ball that looked like a homerun at Target Field. It hit the top of the wall right next to the deck that overhangs right field. The ball then bounced into the stands. I just kept running thinking I'll at least get an inside the park HR.

But as I'm rounding second I see the RF and CF bumping against the wall repeatedly, and the right fielder comes up with the ball that was 100 ft in the crowd by now. Ended up with a triple.

I don't know what happened or if I should report that. Just thought I'd share.

And as for my progress, I'm in May 2015 as the starting SS for the Twins. I hit lead off, but have a .235 average at the moment. And I've been playing with dynamic diffculty. I was at All Star Batting coming into the season. Now I'm at Veteran plus. The MLB pitchers are still a lot tougher to hit.

[KMRblue1027]

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The training modes are still broken. Make a 35 speed 3rd baseman have to steal bases, freaking useless.

[acts238shaun]

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Are you still able to be a pull/push/slap hitter and it be reflected in the hitting area?

[underdog13]

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Are you still able to be a pull/push/slap hitter and it be reflected in the hitting area?

Yeah but this year you can actually be a pull hitter! It's still random of course but last year i tried for ever to be a pull hitter making a new player over and over. Now this year I am a pull hitter on the first try!

[jreyno10]

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Does anyone know of any stances that use a foot twist besides pujols?

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