Cano looks pretty legit I think.

Can we please get some effing urgency when throwing? All around. I’ve had multiple situations where my opponent bunts with Robles towards the 2B and FOTF Albies takes his sweet time picking up the ball and throwing it. A defender of his caliber can make off balance/awkward throws without taking 5 seconds to transfer and gather himself.

Then there’s the OF (omg the OF). I understand the player needs to create some momentum when fielding the ball off the wall but holy hell why does he take a big ol skip and long arm swing when the runner is rounding 3rd heading to score.

Please fix this.

I’ve thought about this a lot lately and I think I’m starting to find an approach that’s really helping at the plate. With less than two strikes, any pitch that looks like it’s going to catch the low part of the strike zone I’ll just try to take. With the amount of sinkers and off speed pitches that are being thrown now, anything that starts low is going to break even lower and be out of the strike zone. Also don’t be afraid to take well executed strikes. If your opponent can dot a fastball on the corners just tip your hat and say good for you. It’s really difficult, sometimes impossible, to get good PCI placement on those corner pitches so even if you make contact more often than not it’s going to lead to a weak fly ball/ground ball. Pretty much just be selective and try to swing at good hittable pitches. Don’t just swing at everything that appears to be a strike.

Still seeing some issues where OF’s are not locking onto balls. Just had Buxton run down a ball in the gap and let it hit him in the head.

Apologies if this is a repeat comment. 130+ would take a while to go through.

@JustASeal0 said in Team affinity stage 2:

I'm incredibly disappointed that Robert, Kelenic, Carlson, Rutschman, and Lux will all end up having worse cards than worse prospect counterparts on their own team

Hell, Franco might end up outclassed by some FS card on the Rays

I understand the difference between the card types, the top prospects should be the ones getting the juiced FS cards then

I agree, these top 10-15 prospects should have better cards than guys like Mountcastle or Bohm. SDS has gone a complete different direction with these FS cards. Like last year once guys like Vladdy and Bichette got called up, then they got FS cards. I think releasing more of these prospects are fine but just make them Prospect series and have their attributes reflect where they currently rank as prospects.

I personally love the events and really don’t like RS right now. Games go quicker, a lot less stress since losses don’t really matter, easier to obtain rewards (and may be better than WS rewards in some cases).

I’ve been passively doing this and about to have 10 teams to 120 points. I believe I originally saw @bonion mention this but the 72 bronzes work well. I’ll go through and put 3 buy orders in for each player for the rival teams I’m doing the exchange for. Normally 2.5ish rounds of this will get me 50 TA points for less than 5k stubs per exchange.

@IIJACKINTHBOXII said in Brian Roberts...:

@BmoreBirds_3 said in Brian Roberts...:

I’m taking Roberts (for obvious reasons). I was thinking of going after Brujan but was really happy they announced BRob was coming as I have no Rays TA points. Chipper looks awesome as well but I have 3B locked up with Bohm right now.

Do you like Bohm? His attributes are good but I'm not sure about his swing.

I’ve only played a couple ranked games since I got him but I like him a lot so far. I know I’ve hit one bomb in the 2-3 games and his swing feels really good.

I agree with this. It seems the timing windows are way different for each individual pitcher. For whatever reason I’m getting blown by on Kluber’s 95mph fastball and sinker and at the same time I have good, sometimes, early, timing on Kopech/Graterol 100mph+ fastballs. Doesn’t make sense.

I personally love Buxton’s swing. I know McGunski uses Buxton’s swing for his CAP.

Killebrew has been great for me and I play him at 1B.

@j9milz said in Real Life Card Collecting:

@BmoreBirds_3 said in Real Life Card Collecting:

That’s awesome you’re getting back into the hobby! I got back to collecting in 2018, Acuna quickly became my favorite player in the league and his cards drew me back in.

Definitely collect what you like but I would definitely say stick to Topps products. Some Panini products can be cool but something about them not havOmg team logos just throws me off. I typically stick with Topps flagship products (Series 1 and 2), Topps Chrome, Topps Update, Topps Update Chrome. I’ll always get 2 hobby boxes or a jumbo of each of those products along with some retail boxes to fill in those complete sets.

I’ve also dabbled into some other products like Topps Heritage but that’s another huge set of cards that will take too much time and money for me. I may try Gypsy Queen at some point cuz I just think the design of those look cool.

Long story short, there’s definitely a lot of stuff out there. I’d recommend the main products from Topps but definitely go for what you enjoy and think looks cool.

Was just looking at the heritage box. Looks interesting

Heritage is really cool. I like how they recreate old topps card designs with the modern players. I’ll buy one off cards of rookies in that set but they’re mostly in the high number set that releases later in the year.

I’ll organically build the sets of flagship and chrome and will chase one off rookies, autos, and numbered cards.

My favorite baseball card in my collection is a gold Acuna rookie auto numbered to 50 I bought off of eBay his rookie year. My favorite/best pull from a pack was a gold Vlad Jr. chrome rookie auto numbered to 50. I was shocked to see that in a pack.

That’s awesome you’re getting back into the hobby! I got back to collecting in 2018, Acuna quickly became my favorite player in the league and his cards drew me back in.

Definitely collect what you like but I would definitely say stick to Topps products. Some Panini products can be cool but something about them not havOmg team logos just throws me off. I typically stick with Topps flagship products (Series 1 and 2), Topps Chrome, Topps Update, Topps Update Chrome. I’ll always get 2 hobby boxes or a jumbo of each of those products along with some retail boxes to fill in those complete sets.

I’ve also dabbled into some other products like Topps Heritage but that’s another huge set of cards that will take too much time and money for me. I may try Gypsy Queen at some point cuz I just think the design of those look cool.

Long story short, there’s definitely a lot of stuff out there. I’d recommend the main products from Topps but definitely go for what you enjoy and think looks cool.

Just picked up Miggy for 11k. Excited to try him out.

I wasn’t planning on doing the Griffey collection originally but definitely not now that I see his attributes. 125 power is nice but everything else is underwhelming for the amount of stubs likely needed to lock in to get him.

However, I really like the Cano card. With rumors of a conquest map with possibly a hidden HRD pack, do we think the price will drop below 50k? Even if it doesn’t I think that’s a fair price for a 2B with that kind of power and gold fielding. Just thinking if I can save a few stubs in the process.

Cano looks pretty legit I think.

I love Wieters (bias aside). One of my more consistent bats and awesome behind the dish.

I like the Palmer card. I enjoyed using his SS card last year and I figured the Os TA3 would either be him or Brooks. Killer looks legit too as a 1B.

Definitely some fire dropped in the 5th inning program. I don’t love any of the 4th inning bosses and I’m not one to go after the 75 program stars for collecting all three. Do we think the prices of the 4th inning bosses will rise any more?

I’ve been passively doing this and about to have 10 teams to 120 points. I believe I originally saw @bonion mention this but the 72 bronzes work well. I’ll go through and put 3 buy orders in for each player for the rival teams I’m doing the exchange for. Normally 2.5ish rounds of this will get me 50 TA points for less than 5k stubs per exchange.