Do you value Prospects in Trades like in real life?

[tcnumba10]

Just wondering how the community plays during Franchise mode? When making trades, do you value prospects for well known commodities like how they do in real life? Or do you make trades regardless since you know you’ll never see your prospects blossom in the long run since this is a yearly baseball game?

[countryboy]

Quote: Originally Posted by tcnumba10

Just wondering how the community plays during Franchise mode? When making trades, do you value prospects for well known commodities like how they do in real life? Or do you make trades regardless since you know you’ll never see your prospects blossom in the long run since this is a yearly baseball game?

I value prospects because I do the carryover franchise saves. I'm always more concerned with continuing to feed the pipeline so that I don't have to "re-build" or anything like that.

Also prospects allow me to make trades at deadline for vets that may put my team over the top in terms of making a deep playoff run.

[tcnumba10]

Quote: Originally Posted by countryboy

I value prospects because I do the carryover franchise saves. I'm always more concerned with continuing to feed the pipeline so that I don't have to "re-build" or anything like that. Also prospects allow me to make trades at deadline for vets that may put my team over the top in terms of making a deep playoff run.

I’m wondering about the carryover franchise saves, would the next game add faces and the player likeness to these prospects? And let’s say you play 1.5 years worth of MLB The Show 20, is you carry over to 21, would it just automatically start at the beginning and erase your progress of the .5 season you’ve played?

[countryboy]

Quote: Originally Posted by tcnumba10

I’m wondering about the carryover franchise saves, would the next game add faces and the player likeness to these prospects? And let’s say you play 1.5 years worth of MLB The Show 20, is you carry over to 21, would it just automatically start at the beginning and erase your progress of the .5 season you’ve played?

No it does not update CAP in the next game. Like in my franchise started in '16, Aaron Judge, Harrison Bader, amongst others are CAP's because they weren't on the official SDS roster when the game launched. Their likeness isn't updated.

The carryover will pick up exactly where you carry it over from. So if you stop playing '20 on June 11th and carried over to '21, it would start on June 11th in your franchise

[tcnumba10]

Quote: Originally Posted by countryboy

No it does not update CAP in the next game. Like in my franchise started in '16, Aaron Judge, Harrison Bader, amongst others are CAP's because they weren't on the official SDS roster when the game launched. Their likeness isn't updated. The carryover will pick up exactly where you carry it over from. So if you stop playing '20 on June 11th and carried over to '21, it would start on June 11th in your franchise

Ah interesting, it doesn’t bother you that their likeness and faces are not updated? How accurate did the game project them to be now in terms of attributes and stats?

[JoshC1977]

This is very much a role-playing game experience to me, so I don't treat anything like it's just a one year gig. My current franchise, I'm hoping to get through 2 or 3 seasons this year (playing every game of course) and then carry it over to next year for a few more seasons. So I handle prospects as I would if I were a real life GM.

[tcnumba10]

Quote: Originally Posted by JoshC1977

This is very much a role-playing game experience to me, so I don't treat anything like it's just a one year gig. My current franchise, I'm hoping to get through 2 or 3 seasons this year (playing every game of course) and then carry it over to next year for a few more seasons. So I handle prospects as I would if I were a real life GM.

I’m wondering if you play 3 seasons in MLB The Show 20 and when you carry it over to the 21 game, will the calendar year say 2021 still or 2023?

[JoshC1977]

Quote: Originally Posted by tcnumba10

I’m wondering if you play 3 seasons in MLB The Show 20 and when you carry it over to the 21 game, will the calendar year say 2021 still or 2023?

I'm fairly sure it'll say the latter. (I'm guessing CB can answer that first-hand)