MLB 13 The Show - Operation Sports Full Minors 2013: Edition v.1

[redsfan4life]

Re: MLB 13 The Show - Operation Sports Full Minors 2013: Edition v.1

That's an awfully aggressive overall for Michael Wacha. 21 innings in pro ball and he's already big league ready? Yikes. Also he's 21, not 20.

[Nando12]

Efren Navarro left off Angels roster

Hey, I'm not sure where/who to take this up with but Efren Navarro was left off of the osfm roster. Don't know if anybody has brought it up in the thread since there's 40 pages worth of comments.

[Nando12]

Re: MLB 13 The Show - Operation Sports Full Minors 2013: Edition v.1

How do you delete a post? I found him, but he didn't come up in my season roster. Sorry about that

[nevadaO]

Re: MLB 13 The Show - Operation Sports Full Minors 2013: Edition v.1

Thank you so much to all those involved. Tonight my MLB 13 The Show experience can begin.

[seanjeezy]

Re: MLB 13 The Show - Operation Sports Full Minors 2013: Edition v.1

Well I haven't had a chance to check out everything, but Oscar Taveras an 83 really jumps out (Pretty sure he's a right fielder too, unless that changed). I tend to go by MLB.com's 2013 prospect rankings, and by that Jurickson Profar is pretty much the best prospect in baseball. Doesn't mean he's the highest rated by any means, but each player is graded on things such as power, speed, fielding and so forth, so you can kinda get a feel where most of these players should be when stacked up against players they rank on that list that are already in the game (Profar, Olt and a few others). I'd say the top guys like Taveras and Myers should be around 78 max, but lower most likely. I actually made those guys and a few others and posted them in the vault already. Same as my screen name when looking for them.

I think the contact and power ratings on some of these guys are way too high. And Billy Hamilton I feel deserves a little more power, a little less contact. And Danny Hultzen an 80? No way. Dylan Bundy has the distinction of being the best pitching prospect, so there's your cutoff for any pitching prospects, period. I wouldn't even put Hultzen that far ahead of Taijuan Walker, if at all to be honest.

Since the Mariners are my team and I did the ratings I guess I'll do the explaining:

IMO Profar and Bundy should be higher, boost Profar's contact to the mid-60's (which would correspond to a ~.265 AVG on Knight's charts) and he's an 83, boost Bundy's control and BB/9 and give him proper pitch edits and he's an 83 as well...

For Hultzen you really need to look at the sum of his parts. If it wasn't for the command issue at AAA (which I believe to be a blip on the radar based on his track record and what he did this spring) he would be a top 10 pitcher, maybe even a top 10 prospect. I also used a combination of ZiPS/Oliver/Steamer/whatever else is on Fangraphs and my personal knowledge and intuition to rate the M's system, so if someone seems high then you're probably underrating them and vice versa.

[redsfan4life]

Re: MLB 13 The Show - Operation Sports Full Minors 2013: Edition v.1

Also one prob with Angels minors...SP Michael Clevenger has pitches but no ratings for them. He's listed at 32 ovr lol.

[ARoid1313]

Damn that's crazy... Is this in your franchise? Who was called up?

On another note, anyone care to share some feedback on how the following players look:

Bruce Rondon
Bubba Starling
Addison Russell
Mike Zunino
Billy Hamilton
Oscar Taveras
Stryker Trahan
Trevor Story

These are the CAPs I feel I knocked the **** out of the park, but of course that's my biased opinion lol. These are the the CAPs that I like the most (besides my own of course lol):

Gary Sanchez
Nick Castellanos
Kaleb Cowart
Jose Fernandez
Jorge Soler
Johnny Hellweg

The likeness is on-point.

It's cool how everyone has their own take on likeness. Thought they looked pretty good man, your zunino is your best in my opinion.
i actually created my own set of top prospects that I'm currently transferring the osfm ratings to, and some are of the same guys u listed. Will be cool to compare with the ones u knocked out of the park

[ilstu24]

Re: MLB 13 The Show - Operation Sports Full Minors 2013: Edition v.1

That's an awfully aggressive overall for Michael Wacha. 21 innings in pro ball and he's already big league ready? Yikes. Also he's 21, not 20.

Sorry about the age, my mistake. Everything I've read and seen shows that he is close to MLB ready. The Cardinals placed him in AAA to start the season, and that says a lot. Yadi had a quote somewhere saying that Wacha was absolutely big league ready right now. Some members of the front office were supposedly pushing for him on the MLB squad. Regardless, I'm sure we will see him on the big club before the year is done.

[dbacks_Nation]

Re: MLB 13 The Show - Operation Sports Full Minors 2013: Edition v.1

I just noticed a mistake I made on the dbacks. SP Eddie Bonine is 31 years old, rosters have him listed at 23.

[ilstu24]

Re: MLB 13 The Show - Operation Sports Full Minors 2013: Edition v.1

Since the Mariners are my team and I did the ratings I guess I'll do the explaining:

IMO Profar and Bundy should be higher, boost Profar's contact to the mid-60's (which would correspond to a ~.265 AVG on Knight's charts) and he's an 83, boost Bundy's control and BB/9 and give him proper pitch edits and he's an 83 as well...

For Hultzen you really need to look at the sum of his parts. If it wasn't for the command issue at AAA (which I believe to be a blip on the radar based on his track record and what he did this spring) he would be a top 10 pitcher, maybe even a top 10 prospect. I also used a combination of ZiPS/Oliver/Steamer/whatever else is on Fangraphs and my personal knowledge and intuition to rate the M's system, so if someone seems high then you're probably underrating them and vice versa.

I echo this, but for Taveras since I did the Cardinals. Profar was rated awfully low by SCEA, in my opinion.

[Splodem]

Re: MLB 13 The Show - Operation Sports Full Minors 2013: Edition v.1

Well, if I'm editing all the other players and bumping them up, I can understand that, but going by the original rosters, I guess I can make my point, but I understand what you're saying if we're talking about editing the players already in the game. I tend to leave those alone for the most part unless it's a glaring thing (Like Wilin Rosario's power last season). Again, they're all prospects, so rating them really high when they're gonna grow a lot in the game as is will let these guys turn into beasts, and fast. LOL.

I just try to compare them to what the game already gives us and scouting reports and whatnot, and you can get a good sense for where their important individual ratings should fall for the most part. Again, that's just me.

[37]

Re: MLB 13 The Show - Operation Sports Full Minors 2013: Edition v.1

i posted it in the Astros OSFM thread but just in case nobody catches it there, i noticed that Rio Ruiz was missing from the Astros roster.....can somebody kindly lemme know why? and if one of the CAP guys has a Ruiz CAP in the vault, can they kindly direct me to it? thanx

[seanjeezy]

Re: MLB 13 The Show - Operation Sports Full Minors 2013: Edition v.1

It's cool how everyone has their own take on likeness. Thought they looked pretty good man, your zunino is your best in my opinion.
i actually created my own set of top prospects that I'm currently transferring the osfm ratings to, and some are of the same guys u listed. Will be cool to compare with the ones u knocked out of the park

Nothing like friendly competition lol. Maybe we can get SCEA to use some of our CAPs again this year, it was really cool seeing our work being acknowledged...

[redsfan4life]

Re: MLB 13 The Show - Operation Sports Full Minors 2013: Edition v.1

Sorry about the age, my mistake. Everything I've read and seen shows that he is close to MLB ready. The Cardinals placed him in AAA to start the season, and that says a lot. Yadi had a quote somewhere saying that Wacha was absolutely big league ready right now. Some members of the front office were supposedly pushing for him on the MLB squad. Regardless, I'm sure we will see him on the big club before the year is done.

I just think that's a small sample size personally. He was a college pitcher it's not unusual for them to dominate the low minors. 75 k/9 seems like it's really, really high. That's the same as Felix Hernandez fyi.

[ilstu24]

Re: MLB 13 The Show - Operation Sports Full Minors 2013: Edition v.1

Well, if I'm editing all the other players and bumping them up, I can understand that, but going by the original rosters, I guess I can make my point, but I understand what you're saying if we're talking about editing the players already in the game. I tend to leave those alone for the most part unless it's a glaring thing (Like Wilin Rosario's power last season). Again, they're all prospects, so rating them really high when they're gonna grow a lot in the game as is will let these guys turn into beasts, and fast. LOL.

I just try to compare them to what the game already gives us and scouting reports and whatnot, and you can get a good sense for where their important individual ratings should fall for the most part. Again, that's just me.

I hear ya man. In my three years of doing OSFM this was by far the hardest. Some players just need a few tweaks.