Official MLB The Show 17 Fantasy Draft Franchise Progress Thread

[WaitTilNextYear]

Still in Spring Training. Just had my get-out-of-a-slump game for the offense in a 15-2 shellacking of the Pirates. It was the first game I've played in a few days and apparently I was well rested. Blasted 7 homers as a team, probably due to the 18 meat pitches offered up, which is the most homers I've ever had in a baseball game. Of those 7, Michael Trout accounted for 3 HRs in a 4-for-6 endeavor; the third homer hit the top of the padded wall in CF and bounced over. Trout is sitting at .255 with 13 homers in the spring. Baez homered twice. Zimmer led off the game with a homer. Lamb ran into a homer as well. The Pirates threw Brad Peacock, Craig Stammen, Jake McGee, Enrique Burgos, Mark Montgomery, and Chris Devenski. Although they probably wish they hadn't. Only McGee and Burgos were unscored upon.

The 19-hit, 7-HR attack has this 13-14 Tigers club ranked 23rd in batting average (.240) and in a 3-way tie for 1st in homers (39) on the spring.

[J_smith2190]

5-1 Record, After Opening With 6 on the Road

The Marlins pitching staff has been absolutely lights out to start the year. Over the first 6 games, only 4 runs have been given up. That would have been 6 runs given up, had Austin Jackson not robbed a two run jack from the Mets Brian Dozier!

David Price has been everything and more than the Marlins could have hoped for, having drafted him with our first pick. Through two starts, Price has a 2-0 record, with 26 K's in 16 innings (1 CG Shut Out), to go along with a 0.00 Era.

On the flip side of things, the Marlins offense has struggled mightily. Aside from an 11 run explosion, the margin of victory has been slim. Two 2-0 wins, One 1-0, and one 4-0. The lone loss of the season came at the hands of the Mets, with again a score of 0-2.

Kipnis (.120), Beltre (.182) and Bird (.200) aren't doing very much as the heart of the order. In order for the Marlins to be successful, the bats are going to have to pick it up, as the pitching will surely regress going forward.

Opening Home Stand

After a day off for travel, the Marlins will play two games against the Braves, followed by 4 against the Mets. The home stand will be followed by a 3 game series at the Mariners, before a much needed day off.

Heres a look at the short series against the Braves:

Pitching Matchups

Michael Fulmer (1-0 1.50) vs Mike Foltynewicz (0-1 3.38)
Marco Estrada (0-0 0.00) vs Zach Davies (0-1 5.40)

Braves Lineup
2B Josh Harrison (R)
RF Josh Reddick (L)
3B Josh Donaldson (R)
CF Charlie Blackmon (L)
1B Will Myers (R)
LF Brett Gardner (L)
C Nick Hundley (R)
SS Javier Baez (R)
-- Pitcher--

Braves Bench
C Jett Bandy (R)
3B Kelly Johnson (L)
SS Pat Valaika (R)
CF Drew Stubbs (R)

Three Keys

1. 1 Limit the three Josh's production.
2. 2 Marlins batters have to start getting on base.
3. 3 Pound the strike zone down

[Armor and Sword]

Well the time has come to finally run my planned 30 team control 1987 Full Minors Fantasy Draft.

We decided to use The Arizona Diamondbacks as our team for this franchise.


I will draft the 40 man roster for every single team with a specific structured strategy for every team.


The first 25 picks will be their 25 man roster. And we will be methodical in taking best player available for every team regardless of position and age for their starting 9. Then we will fill out their pitching staff, then bench.

The next 15 picks will strictly be the best prospects available regardless of position.

After that I will sim every pick for 29 teams and continue to build my team.

By doing this I expect the teams to be balanced for the most part, but more importantly avoid the CPU issue of no bench players, too many pitchers etc etc.

Wish me luck......it will be a grind doing this....but have been planning this for a while!!!

[KomicJ]

Recently started playing MLB The Show again, and just did my Fantasy Draft using the Pittsburgh Pirates. Turned out pretty well I think, especially considering I had the 26th pick in the 1st round.

PITTSBURGH PIRATES
STARTERS

• RHP - Luis Severino (90)
• RHP - Michael Fulmer (83)
• LHP - Blake Snell (78)
• RHP - Alex Reyes (79)
• RHP - Tyler Glasnow (74)
  ---
• LRP - Jhrarel Cotton (70)
• MRP - Roenis Elias (76)
• MRP - Neftali Feliz (72)
• MRP - Yimi Garcia (82)
• MRP - Pedro Baez (83)
• SU - Arodys Vizcaino (79)
• CP - Ken Giles (84)

STARTING LINE-UP

• CF - (L) Odubel Herrera (86)
• RF - (R) Yasiel Puig (79)
• SS - (R) Carlos Correa (90)
• 1B - (L) Anthony Rizzo (91)
• LF - (L) Carlos Gonzalez (85)
• 3B - (R) Maikel Franco (80)
• C - (R) Austin Hedges (69)
• 2B - (R) Tim Anderson (77)

BENCH

• C - (R) Chris Stewart (71)
• 1B - (R) Ryon Healy (71)
• SS - (R) Orlando Arcia (72)
• CF - (R) Magneuris Sierra (69)
• RF - (S) Carlos Beltran (80)

NOTABLE PLAYERS IN THE MINORS

• SP - (R) Shohei Otani (73)
• SP - (R) Luis Perdomo (72)
• SP - (R) Lucas Giolito (68)
• SP - (R) Joe Musgrove (65)
• SP - (R) Touki Toussaint (61)
• SP - (R) Nick Kingham (59)
• SP - (R) Jordan Sheffield (57)
• RP - (R) Thyago Vieira (65)
• RP - (R) Jandel Gustave (62)
• RP - (R) Carson Fulmer (58)
• CP - (R) Koda Glover (68)
• CP - (R) Joe Jimenez (59)
  
• C - (S) Francisco Mejia (69)
• 1B - (S) Josh Bell (74)
• 1B - (R) Jose Usuna (57)
• 3B - (R) Rafael Devers (77)
• SS - (R) Amed Rosario (73)
• LF - (S) Dalton Pompey (65)
• CF - (R) Victor Robles (66)

Time to have some fun !

[Armor and Sword]

The Matheny Manifesto Year 2 is back on track!

We are currently in July (post All-Star break) and in first place in the N.L. Central. For those that followed this amazing fantasy franchise on MLB 16 The Show, you know we are the defending World Series Champions. We are gearing up for another exciting pennant chase and I will stream the rest of the season on Twitch!

I will also give end of the month updates here as well with our player stats and stories. I can tell you a couple of things.

Bryce Harper is on pace for 50 HR’s and over 100 RBI’s

#1 starter Danny Salazar is at this moment a front runner for the NL Cy Young Award. He is currently 13-4 with a sub 3 ERA and is mowing down batters with his nasty fastball and slider.

The Cardinals top young prospect (already playing in The Show) Jacob H is finally starting to come into his own. Due to Ender Inciarte’s season ending ACL injury in May he has stepped into the LF role (Starling Marte mans CF) and has stolen 15 bases thus far and provided lights out defense. His bat is coming around. 2B Yoan Moncada is on the shelf so Brock Holt has been holding down the fort at 2B and hitting over .300

We are in game 3 vs the Mariners (won the first two in this 3 game interleague series) and looking for the sweep. I will be streaming the game in 5 minutes!

[Frostball]

Alright so I was looking at this thread today and thought man it has been a long while since I played with my Fantasy Draft team, but must have deleted the file so I figured I'd start up a new one.

I decided to use the San Diego Padres and got the 15th pick.

I accidently clicked on the square button and fast forwarded through the last 25 rounds but here is how the team shaped up. I will post the 25 man roster and the notable prospects and Minor leaguers

25 Man Roster

Spoiler

SP
Noah Syndergaard
Jon Gray
Carlos Rodon
Alex Reyes
Julio Urias

RP
Dellin Betances
Carl Edwards Jr.
Tommy Kahnle
Felipe Rivero
Sammy Solis
Matt Belisle

CP
Archie Bradley

C
Wilson Contreras
Bobby Wilson

1B
Cody Bellinger

2B
Javier Baez
Dustin Ackley

3B
Adonis Garcia

SS
Dansby Swanson
Adam Rosales

LF
Nick Williams

CF
Byron Buxton
Coco Crisp

RF
Stephen Piscotty
Scott Schebler

Notable Prospects

Spoiler

SP Shohei Ohtani
SP Walker Buehler
SP Francis Martes
SP Kolby Allard

3B Nick Senzel
SS Brendan Rodgers
LF Clint Frazier
RF Ronald Acuna

Notable Minor Leaguers

Spoiler

SP Tim Lincecum
SP Asher Wojciechowski
RP Eric O'Flaherty
C Tom Murphy
C Drew Butera
1B Scott Van Slyke
3B Donovan Solano
SS Ronald Torreyes
RF Oswaldo Arcia

Two after draft trades were made

Spoiler

Padres Acquired RP Sammy Solis, RP Derek Law, RP Tommy Kahnle from the Mets in return for RP Carlos Torres, RP Neftali Feliz and CF Austin Meadows

Padres Acquired RP Felipe Rivero from the Mariners for CF Lane Adams, RP Derek Law, and 2B Kevin Medrano

While Setting up my line up I realized I have to many right hand hitters so I traded away Swanson from Cesar Hernandez. Hernandez will play 2B while I move Baez to play SS

[Frostball]

Ok so I always sim spring training and here are the results

12-17 Record 13th place in the Cactus league with the Rockies in first with a 20-10 record.

Best hitters

1B Bellinger .280 3 HR, 12 RBI
RF Stephan Piscotty .297 2 HR, 16 RBI

Worst Hitters

SS Javier Baez .204 1 HR, 11 RBI
LF Nick Williams .228 2 HR, 12 RBI

Best Pitchers

SP Noah Syndergaard 2-3 2.84 ERA 41 K's in 39 IP
RP Tommy Kahnle 1-0 1.66 ERA
Carl Edwards Jr. 0-0 1.29 ERA

Worst Pitchers

SP Jon Gray 0-3 6.53 ERA
SP Alex Reyes 0-3 6.57 ERA
RP Matt Belisle 0-2 12.86 ERA

Team wise they only made 4 errors as a team 2 each by Garcia and Hernandez, so defensively the team is looking sharp

One Notable injury was Wilson Contreras who torn his groin and will miss two months happened pretty early in spring so will be expected back early to mid may if there are no complications

[mlblover15]

In one last ditch effort to get ANYTHING going with 17 after many tries to get a franchise going of any kind I am finally ready to get this thing going.

after what seems like a million drafts with just as many teams per say. I finally just gave my fate up to the CPU. Got the 6th pick overall and crossed my fingers and prayed as I pressed square. Here is what the gods let me have as a team.

1. SS Chris Owings
2. 2B Josh Harrison
3. 1B will Myers
4. CF Jackie Bradley Jr.
5. 3B Evan Longoria
6. RF Michael Saunders
7. LF Jose Martinez
8. DH Danny Valencia
9. C Jason Castro

Bench

C Yan Gomes
1B Sean Rodriguez
CF Anthony Gose


Starting Rotation

1. R Corey Kluber
2. R Joe Ross
3. L Jose Alvarez
4. L C.C. Sabathia
5. Clay Buchholz

Bullpen

LRP L Brett Anderson
MRP R Yusmeiro Petit
MRP R Chris Hatcher
MRP L Barry Goldsmith (R)
MRP R Tyler Bruno
SU R Chad Green
SU L Jake Diekman
CL R Ken Giles.

this was with whatever most current live rosters were there.

see how this goes.