Yeah the punishment is them walking you.

SDS: We would like to announce MLB the Show 20, it is much improved vs 19 with the addition of perfect perfect, showdown, increased emphasis on team affinity, and other quality of life changes.

Game gets released...

The People: LOVE the game, but there's a few issues.
SDS: Ok, let us know what you want fixed.

The People: Pitch speeds are too slow.
SDS: Oh you want pitch speeds to be faster, (evil laugh), no problem we can do that for you. How about all-star that feels like legend?

The People: There's too many home runs.
SDS: Hey everyone, the people said less home runs. (evil laugh again) Toggle the switch to activate negative exit velos?

The People: Pitchers don't hit their spots on perfect release.
SDS: But, but, we just added perfect perfect, and we need the noobs to feel good about themselves by giving them some pitches they can hit...sooo, we're gonna have to keep that feature, ahem, bug, sorry.

The People: we don't like showdown because it's too all or nothing.
SDS: Oh, so we'll just reduce the rewards that way its not as appealing so maybe some people will just ignore it.

The People: There are a lot of issues with fielding and outfielders not locking on.
SDS: Oh, you want better fielding. We can certainly give the CPU better fielding. That's no problem at all. I hope you enjoy Yordan Alvarez making diving catches.

Hope you all enjoy this little bit of humor. Enjoy your day!

@BIGWEB52 said in Yea I know I’m a complainer:

I don’t think the game is bad . I think it just needs a good patch . I think hitting and pitching are terrible right now , but People get so obsessed with there contact and pci placement. Baseball is a game where even the best players in the world fail 7 out of 10 times at the dish . You should NOT get a hit or HR every time you get “good-good” or “perfect-good “ or whatever . This is a SIM game , not arcade . The only thing that would be worse then the state of the game right now , would be if every “good-good” got you a hit . Jesus every game would be 23-27 with 35 hits a side and take 2 hours to do . Yes the game should reward good contact but it should be rewarding it 25-35% of the time .

I completely disagree with this. The reason MLB players fail 7 out of 10 times is because they don't get "good good" with their swing. If they got "good good" every time they would do significantly better than a hit every 3 out of 10 at-bats. MLB players fail 70% of the time because they either mess up their timing or they don't square up the baseball. However when a hitter squares up a 96 mph pitch it NEVER leaves the bat at 85 mph.

Wtf is this thread?

No player progression, no draft, so basically in a 12 team league, the twelve teams that were chosen are the only teams whose players are in the league which means that we're limited to the same 480 players for the duration of the league.

I'm seeing a ton of threads about people having so much difficulty with Showdown and I honestly don't understand why they find it so difficult.

Would I be wrong to think that there are just as many people out there like me who are genuinely enjoying the mode and concept and are happy with the medium but not too difficult level of difficulty?

Its 10 seconds long. If its that annoying to watch 10 seconds of a home run, you're probably taking the game too seriously so I really don't mind.

Yes but in real life players improve/age, and there is a draft and a constant influx of new players coming into the league. As far as I can tell, from custom leagues, not one player will ever be in the league that wasn't in the league on day 1.

I went into an event game and hit 3 HRs with Yankees, which was one of the Granderson missions for 10 points, so after I hit the 3 HRs, I quit out and I didn't get the points. So I went into another game and got 3 xbhs with Yankees and didn't quit out (assuming that the reason the mission didn't count is because I quit) so I finished the game and I still had no progress on the mission. Events should count as online, correct? I know something similar is going on with Eckersley/other evolution cards missions, so maybe its a huge DD bug, but has anyone else had this issue with Granderson?

Granderson is an easy option. Free if you wanna put the time in. Mashes too.

Don't get me wrong, there are definitely times when I feel screwed over by the game, but 90% of the time, if i lose i know i deserved to lose, because my opponent was clearly better than me, and when I win, i was better than my opponent.

Big Sexy: hold my beer

before someone asks GG = gold glove.

Assuming you've taken Hal and Kluber as your first two, he's the obvious next pick. McCovey isn't really anything special for a 1B and there's plenty of other speedy outfielders you can get if you want someone like Rickey. Fingers is really the only elite reliever in the game right now, with Wagner Gagne and Smoltz being the next best options.

Man to think that we get mad when we don't get hits on perfect perfect when there's people battling cancer, just shows how petty we are most of the time. Reading stuff like this really gets the perspective back in the right place.

@the_dragon1912 said in If they come out with a Jeter card:

@DeckerCurtis2002 said in If they come out with a Jeter card:

@genopolanco said in If they come out with a Jeter card:

@FranklinSabers16 said in If they come out with a Jeter card:

@DeckerCurtis2002 said in If they come out with a Jeter card:

Yeah but its SDS so they'll give him 90+ fielding just because they can.

Wow good judgement from a Yankee fan

They really would though. They do whatever they want. If they went by statistics, Tulo would’ve had diamond fielding last year.

Yeah exactly, nobody has any power to stop them from giving any juiced attributes they want to anybody. Andrew McCutchen got a SS card last year and Orel Herchiser didn't. Nothing I can do about that, SDS does whatever they want.

I know what you are saying, but this was a really bad example. I love Hershiser in this game, but McCutchen had a really good career with the pirates. Hershiser had 2 good seasons

Yeah fair enough, I know there are other better examples, I tried to think of something on the spot and this is what i thought of.

@genopolanco said in If they come out with a Jeter card:

@FranklinSabers16 said in If they come out with a Jeter card:

@DeckerCurtis2002 said in If they come out with a Jeter card:

Yeah but its SDS so they'll give him 90+ fielding just because they can.

Wow good judgement from a Yankee fan

They really would though. They do whatever they want. If they went by statistics, Tulo would’ve had diamond fielding last year.

Yeah exactly, nobody has any power to stop them from giving any juiced attributes they want to anybody. Andrew McCutchen got a SS card last year and Orel Herchiser didn't. Nothing I can do about that, SDS does whatever they want.

@FranklinSabers16 said in If they come out with a Jeter card:

@DeckerCurtis2002 said in If they come out with a Jeter card:

Yeah but its SDS so they'll give him 90+ fielding just because they can.

Wow good judgement from a Yankee fan

Not even a biased answer, this is a business. They release Jeter, they're gonna juice him real good because nobody can do anything about it. They could release a Ty Cobb card with 125 power and nobody could do anything about it because SDS can do whatever they want with cards and people would still use them.

Yeah but its SDS so they'll give him 90+ fielding just because they can.

Yeah the fact that people think that the other player should be punished for throwing pitches out of the zone is ridiculous. The risk/reward is that the other player can just take the pitch for a ball. What more punishmnent should be required?