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Old 04-09-2010, 12:47 AM   #477
ksig24
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Re: MLB '10: The Show Rosters: OS Full Minors V.1

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Originally Posted by Jason_19
Have you guys figured out what happened?

K, since some of the potentials are not what you assigned them to be, have you looked at the attributes yet? I ask because it seems like a lot of attributes are way off for a lot of players. This really stands out for players who are not on most top 100 lists. It seems like the attributes for these players were randomly assigned and that almost all of the players who are outside of the top 100 or so all have basically the same hitting attributes. There's really nothing that distinguishes these players from one another. Maybe that is because their ratings have been scaled down so much.

I'm not knocking you guys. Even without the potentials of certain players being different than what you intended, just looking at the attributes, something seems like it might have gotten messed up.

For example, take Dustin Ackley who is a top 10 prospect and who is one of the most polished hitting major league ready players in decades, and compare him to one of Seattle's lowest rated players, Ronnie Prettyman, who is also a 2nd baseman.

Ackley's hitting attributes are:
RT contact 46
LT contact 43
RT power 37
LT power 33
vision 47
discipline 52

Ronnie Prettyman's hitting attributes:
RT contact 32
LT contact 27
RT power 27
LT power 22
vision 37
discipline 37

To me, there's really not much of a difference at all between these two players. Attributes do not dictate that a player is going to perform a certain way every single time or even half of the time, but that makes this even more puzzling because a player can easily play a little above attributes and a little below his attributes. With that being the case, there is basically nothing separating Ackley from all of Seattle's or any other team's other lowest rated prospects.

This is just one example, but this applies to every team I've looked at. I'm not just picking out Ackley.



This is another thing that makes me wonder if something got messed up or glitched along the way. K, I remember you saying that Poythress was going to be added. He's a player that I couldn't see being left out, unless you did intend to add him and then just simply forgot about him or thought that you added him when you didn't.
Hey! Dont knock Ronnie, he is my beer pong partner!
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