10 minutes absolutely sounds like enough time to determine a card's viability.

For the sanity of your customer base, please make it so we don’t have to go out to the menu in multi-game moments. Please, please, please. I am begging. I’ll even buy some stubs if you want. Make this happen.

It happens in RTTS, so it is possible. Please do this in moments. Please. It is such a colossal waste of time to go back to the menu each time. It’s a no-brainer.

Please pass it on @Pat_SDS @SDS_Jax and whoever else I’m forgetting.

I have one small request for showdown. If we only need to accomplish hitting stats (like the first one against Oswalt), don’t make us have to mindlessly pitch the innings too. Adds to the time if you’re just failing anyway.

I thought of one today. Let us filter when making event lineups. Say, I want to put in as many Brewers pitchers as I can. Let me filter for Brewers. Really, there are so many QOL things I can think of that would make a big difference in how I felt about the game.:

The ones mentioned above are good. Now that we can’t quicksell collected cards, it would be wonderful if there was an easier way to deal with duplicates. So many more things I could mention.

Here are the MLB prospect rankings for these future stars, guys getting 92-and-up juiced cards. (Correct me if I got the wrong guy or missed someone):

Diamondbacks: Alek Thomas, the team's No. 2 overall prospect and No. 49 overall in the top-100 prospects in the game (not bad, comparatively).

Orioles: Ryan Mountcastle, the team's No. 4 prospect and No. 94 in the top-100 (But this one didn't surprise me).

Cubs: Nico Hoerner, the team's top prospect and No. 51 overall (again, not bad comparatively, but still juiced).

White Sox: Nick Madrigal, team No. 4 and 40th overall. Dane Dunning, team No. 6 and not in top-100.

Astros: Jose Urquidy, team No. 2 and not in top 100.

Angels: Brandon Marsh, team No. 2 and No. 79 overall.

Mets: Andres Giminez, team No. 3 and No. 84 overall.

Yankees: Clarke Schmidt, team No. 2 and No. 88 overall.

Phillies: Alec Bohm, team's No. 1 and No. 30 overall. Adonis Medina, team's No. 5 (!) and not in top 100.

Padres: Taylor Trammell, team's No. 5 and No. 57 overall (good farm system).

Mariners: Evan White, team's No. 4 and No. 56 overall.

Cardinals: Nolan Gorman, team's No. 2 and No. 47 overall.

Blue Jays: Kevan Smith, team's No. 23 (!!!!) and not in top 100.

So, needless to say, I'm not sure how you justify these guys getting 90-plus cards. Again, it seems like the prospect rankings, while maybe a little generous, seemed pretty good. These future stars are just so out of whack.

On most of the team's, it seemed like they tried to go with guys that are closer to high minors and maybe appearing in MLB. Except guys like Gorman and Thomas were Single-A advanced players and a couple were Double-A.

I've often thought about this MLB Players league. That's a ton of free advertising for them. And then to see the players complain about issues is quite a sight.

Appreciate the response.

I am so confused. Nick Madrigal already has the prospect card, which as an 85-plus is already a generous ranking. Why give another card of prospects? I understand trying to think outside the box and give us more content since we're all sitting at home, but I don't get this. There's going to be 1 per team but this is a headliner? An 95 Madrigal is the same overall rating as the current Mike Trout. Are you saying you project that Nick Madrigal will one day be as good as Trout now? What in the world? This is all so weird.

Something struck me after reading the thread about pitchouts and playing another game of Conquest with repeated pitchouts. It's like the game in total is just kind of overproduced.

Are there pitchouts IRL? Of course there are, but not to the degree you see in this game. Are routine groundballs sometimes booted? Yes, but not to the degree you see in this game. Do pitchers miss locations and hang pitches? Again, yes but not this much. Do double plays happen? Of course, but not every single time a runner is at first. Do people throw 102? Yes, but not all game.

Do umpires miss calls on the edges of the strike zone? Do they miss safe/out calls at the bags? Are there throwing errors from good infielders? Are there throwing errors from the catcher when he has to throw to first after a dropped third strike? Are homers hit on bad contact? Are good contact hits sometimes hit right at fielders? Do some players make decent contact on pitches way out of the zone? Do pitchers get hit by batted balls? Do pitchers sometimes make good fielding plays on balls up the middle? Do bunts sometimes go past the mound to where the second baseman might need to field it? Do starters sometimes come on in relief?

All of these are a yes, but the balance is way off in this game. Is it cool to have a fully immersive game with these things happening? Yes, but they need to occur a lot less frequently (however that gets programmed). In all, I feel like the game is just a bit overproduced.

MLB The You-Must-Wait-To-Swing-Until-It’s-3-and-2-Show 20

Did getting the choice of players in the XP reward path change your mind when getting there? I’m talking the Larkin, Reggie, Sandberg, Minnie or Posey choice? Was there anything about the upgrade in red diamond that made you go one way or another from how you picked them earlier? Or did playing with any of them change your mind?

I went Sandberg, Reggie, Larkin, Posey, Minoso before. I reached prestige 5 so I have the pick again and can’t decide what to do. I was happy with how I picked them before but not sure if I’ll go the same route?

Did anyone change their mind the second time through or was their anything about their attribute upgrades that made you pick a certain way?

I hear ya there. I also went back to using Acuna because I needed Braves hits and I do so well with him.

Haha. This Stargell 2 XBH moment might as well be 2 HRs. He’s so slow and he’s extremely slow out of the box. I’ve got one double during it, Th e fielder jumped and missed.

I’m getting tired of being robbed of home runs in moments.

I had a strong feeling all along we’d see Maddux this time around. Just a bummer that he probably won’t play all that well. His style just doesn’t work. Hopefully they give him great /9s and have his pitches with a lot of movement. That’s the only way he’ll be effective. Which sucks, because I loved watching Maddux pitch.

@ChuckCLC said in This Blackmon....:

@MFundercover said in This Blackmon....:

Oh just saw him. Nasty. Might pick him up and stuck him in left.

That's Chuck Nasty to you.

That’s Chuck Nazty to you.

(On Twitter he’s @Chuck_Nazty)

The CPU Initial choice of the defender you control has been off all year. I start moving one way thinking I might lock in to a certain player and I end up running away from the call because they chose someone else.

My thing is I just don’t understand why I can’t locate sliders that well this year (relatively, of course, to other pitches). Slider is one of my favorite pitches. Just having a hard time getting it where I want it. Same with going inside to left batters. I don’t get it

In 17, I pulled Trout from the daily login pack.

The obsession for these prestige diamonds is kind of crazy for a plus-3 attribute change. Especially for the already 99s