Can we PLEASE acknowledge Joey Loperfido's absolutely gigantic cheekbones in this game. Looks like LeSteroid DaddyHack IV's model

Some feedback about walker defensively. The reaction time is what hurts him the most at first base. He does have a plus arm so you could play him in right or left field and his low defense won’t hurt you as bad and his arm may even help. And if he’s catching a lot of pop flies and such, those count as putouts which boost defensive ratings quicker and everytime he’s guns someone at 2nd or home with the arm that’ll boost defense a hair too.

@jtphog9711

Ай бұрын

Maybe in spring training you could DH Gorman Carlson or someone else in LF, Nootbar in Center, Walker in RF, And Donovan plays 2B if improving Walkers defense becomes a goal

@brycenhenry9905

Ай бұрын

Reaction time will be a liability on fly balls even more tho. But I do like the idea

@jtphog9711

Ай бұрын

@@brycenhenry9905 in theory yes, but I’ve found you can really hide poor defense in the outfield especially if they have a good arm. I had a guy get +8 fielding and +5 reaction after moving him from 3rd to RF in AAA. A potential on him obviously to pull that off, and I’ve never really gotten boosts like that again but +3 to +4 a season is pretty common with that archetype of player

@brycenhenry9905

Ай бұрын

@@jtphog9711I’d like to see it since we have 1B prospects coming up! Plus Scott can cover center and right like Rickey Henderson did for Reggie Jackson 😂

@KeeganHarvath

Ай бұрын

Been saying this for a few episodes. I wouldn’t be able to hide that arm at 1st base. Too much potential for fun gun outs lol.. plus 70+ speed never hurts might make up for poor reaction

Love how they added the City Connect uni’s to franchise even though you started this save before they were released!

I like the idea of changing Edman to SS before he hit's FA. Give him that extra value since he's been good playing there

Absolutely cannot keep Carlson. But DAMN those 2 throws were fun! NEED to find another ARM to replace him for sure…love seeing you get new guys involved series to series tho

Some advice but you should use a 6th starting pitcher as your long relief pitcher. I tend to use this spot for rookies/younger pitchers that will eventually replace someone in the starting rotation. would be a good spot for roby to improve and see how he does in the majors. Bringing up both rookies was too much, bringing 1 up would of been fine along with a trade rental with an extra bat but too late for that now lol, hopefu Loving the series as always. GL GL

I would probably keep Walker at 1st going forward. I understand he makes mistakes, but he's still so young that putting him at DH would kind of be a waste of some potential.

@brycenhenry9905

Ай бұрын

Especially with that Arm talent

@tylermcgill9768

Ай бұрын

​@brycenhenry9905 his arm is pretty wasted at 1st too tho. I say just keep Walker where he is now and see what happens in the future. Juan Soto is not the greatest fielder but has good arm strength and gets away with playing corner outfield. Walker could do the same

@brendonbuffaloe8830

Ай бұрын

He should be playing RF. It’s a waste of his arm to play him at first. Look at Ronald Acuña: terrible defender but has the best arm in the league

Cane - few things to keep an eye on in a franchise like this where you sim plenty. Only a few stats really matter in the sim: contact, power, and discipline for hitters, and H/9 and BB/9 for pitchers. Discipline in the sim dictates how good players are at taking, not Vision, so high OBP comes from Discipline and not Vision. Contact dictates the balls being put in play and power dictates XBH, but contact is more important in the sim. Other stats only matter in actual gameplay. For pitchers, H/9 controls how many outs you get and BB/9 controls the amount of walks you allow. K/9 dictates how many of those outs are strikeouts, and HR/9 just dictates how many of the hits you give up leave the yard. So HR/9 matters a little, K/9 basically not at all. Just stuff to keep in mind when you evaluate players and make decisions on who is ready or not. For example, Players with

@RonnieG

Ай бұрын

Good points. I'm curious what vision has to do with then...

@jfproductions8983

Ай бұрын

@@RonnieG Vision controls the PCI and helps make contact on pitches outside of it in gameplay, so it's useful to have when you're playing the games. In sim, it just controls what % of the outs a hitter makes that are strikeouts, so it's not important. In the sim you'd rather have a guy who makes 250 outs a season but strikes out 200 times as opposed to a guy that makes 300 outs and only strikes out 100 times (assuming equal plate appearances).

@RonnieG

Ай бұрын

Makes sense. Thanks.

The Roby and Hence moves never really made sense at the time and look even more confusing now

@MrHurriicaneLP

Ай бұрын

The hope was that with Mikolas and Gibson regressing and posting poor advanced numbers that the young pitchers would have a chance to give us a boost. But they posted worse advanced numbers so we're back at the beginning.

That curve ball dropped out faster then P Diddy friends 🙏💀😭

Loving the series. Helping me learn baseball

Absolutely amazing start to this series. Can’t get enough of it

I wonder if tweaking Scotts LEG KICK or SWING would help his bat simulate…something to TEST if he doesn’t hit again next year

@jermaineconley3469

Ай бұрын

Mate why are you just capitalizing random words lol

@brycenhenry9905

Ай бұрын

@@jermaineconley3469not random lol

Every time I hear high and hard I think, me too cane me too

Best MLB franchise on KZread

The facts the Donovan has 86 vision and competing for a batting title is self-explanatory When you go back to the As franchise Cabrera the switchhitting second baseman vision was crazy good and what his career average was in the 320s

I needed that content today

nootbaar has been one of my favorite players ever since he broke into the bigs. seeing him do this well is just awesome. great vid as always cane!!

if your on playlock, you can get out of it by going to team select mid game and it takes playerlock off

I am about a year ahead of you and my god the regression out of Gray and Burnes is something fierce. I decided to sell off at the deadline. Our rotation is Burnes, Lynch, Hence, Roby and McGreevy. Total tear down with the offense if we get lackluster production next year.

putting 99 speed gold glove potential defense victor scott in left with carlson in center is definitely a choice 😭😭

A solid slow crawl back to the top of the division. Considering the remaining schedule, I think the team can do it.

Most young pitchers usually aren’t ready until they are around 75-80 overall you may want to bring them up earlier than that but they are never actually ready until they get to that threshold. at least in my experience

Last thing victor Scott should be in cf everytime he’s in the game. He 100% would have caught that ball in left center that Carlson couldn’t get to. Y waste 99 speed in lf🤦🏽‍♂️

Let's goooooo!!!! Perfect addition to my day off! Edit: why my boy Victor Scott so T H I C C

Hoping to see an ncaa dynasty series as well hopefully cane!

Ranger Suarez is pitching cy young status IRL this year

I started a Cards franchise and am at about the same point in season 2 as you are...maybe a touch behind. I also traded Goldy in season 1, but to Seattle, as it made sense given where they were in the division race and were playing Ty France at 1B. I also signed Alonso in FA instead of Burnes. It's interesting how differently some players have progressed or played from 1 franchise to another (Nootbar for me is average in yr 2, Roby is only a C potential and sporting a 4.50 ERA in AAA). My Cards are 18 games over .500 and lead the division by 7 games so hopefully they don't hit the skids like yours did.

I would put Scott at center where his fielding is amazing, and I would put Walker at right field because of his arm. Scott’s defense can help cover for Walker’s poor reaction. Carlson is too slow at center field, and his offense doesn’t make up for it in this sim. Loving the series, as usual!!

Pitching overall seems good but could be better. U won some games toward the end of the episode and hopefully the bats just had a bad day on that last game

Let’s go!

🔥🔥

Vision is the most important hitting stat just look at Donovan and nootboor why I’m so excited for your top to pics especially the second one he’s going to be a star

How do you remove the PCI and just base hits on the talent? I wanna do that in my upcoming franchise mode.

@MrHurriicaneLP

Ай бұрын

You want to change your hitting input settings to Classic and turn off any PCI related setting.

The Phillies turned into the greatest defensive team of all time lol 😂

We’re choking!

Dylan Carlson can't be that expensive. He's perfect bench/platoon.

@coreysykes3847

29 күн бұрын

He's a redundant player. Keeping him at a higher price isn't worth it with someone younger and cheaper available.

Scott can reach base by bunting a good % of the time

There have been some dreadful user at-bats lately.

What are your sliders??

U kept saying that all year that ur guys were overachieving but I disagree u have a great core of guys in their mid to late 20s. And when it continued thru past the all star break did u think it was a fluke? They have been consistently good all year. Edman and jd Davis were the only two who didn’t hit well and the second half of the year the been killing it both got the avg up to about 250 from low 200s and Carlsen stink second half but other than that everyone else was good all year. I’ll say it again if u never made those moves w bringing up th two rookie pitchers and u got a good number 3 starter a good reliever or two and a bench bat u have a World Series run without question. U may not have won but with a cple good moves u had as good a chance as any team in baseball. I hope u see what u have now and u go after it next year cus u have the same team back for the most part so u just need to get those pieces I talked about and otherwise just roll with the guys u got!

Andrew Kittredge is so bad in games that we watch. Throws one pitch and immediately gives up a 2-run double

Why do u swing when u have less than one strike at a pitch where ur stealing? U do it all the time even when u get a great jump with a 99 speed guy, u could have literally walked into second base w Vic Scott. Guarantee steal and ur late and slap a routine fly ball to left. With him on second it changes everything. U need to bunt and steal and manufacture runs wherever and whenever u can cus u don’t come by many runs at all. Work with what u got cane

Then u finally steak second n third w 2 outs and put ur best hitter in an 0-2 hole by taking two good pitches to hit🤦🏽‍♂️unbelievable y not do that with Carlson up w one out instead this way the fly ball scores the run

Love this series & keep Jordan Walker at 1st Base and not use at DH , he’s too young & has a too good of an arm to too just bat

Has anybody else gotten the corbin burnes glitch?

@brycenhenry9905

Ай бұрын

What is it?

@bearsoulman

Ай бұрын

@@brycenhenry9905 man it’s a franchise killer lol. it’ll add corbin burnes to every roster 1-4 times. fortunately for me, he’s only being added while some others are experiencing players being replaced completely. there’s no real fix, i’ve contacted SDS 3 times to this point and no response. my workaround has been having a head canon that he had a career ending injury and just making him 30 ovr so he retires, but man it sucks when you want realism. this has happened to me in 3 franchises, but im way too far in this one to start over

@RonnieG

Ай бұрын

​@@bearsoulmanthat's hilarious. They need to fix this.

@bearsoulman

Ай бұрын

@@RonnieG lmao man it’s such a headache! they aren’t going to unfortunately. the company only cares about diamond dynasty

Gotta admit watching you rebuild a bad team like the A's is much better than taking over a team this good already. May as well did the Dodgers

@joeman99983

Ай бұрын

That's not comparable at all. The Dodgers are WS contenders while the Cardinals aren't.

@UgRugrat

Ай бұрын

This series is still young, give it some time

@BrewhouseSports

Ай бұрын

This team is massively overachieving. He is in for it next year. I promise you lol

Lfgggg

You bat for shit, throw garbage, and tend to freeze on defense - if you do a player-lock game, you should stand-in for a worst-guy, not ruin the stats of a better one. Still fun to watch - Cheers

2 hits? Come on bro we want to see some runs without simulations. U should lower the settings to rookie or something

These city connect jerseys suck. The Lou sounds like a toilet. Thankfully the Rays have an awesome set.

@michaelpatras9970

Ай бұрын

As a cubs fan I’m a big fan of our rivals essentially having “the toilet” on their jersey

Cane watching u hit is painful🤣I love ya but you stink lol u already shit the bed with the pitching moves u made dropping Gibson and mikolas and dropped the ball on making no trade deadline moves on a first place team w the best offense in baseball at the time now u entering these games late is an automatic l pretty much everytime u come in. I guess player lock is ur best bet but do it with ur worst player so u don’t hurt ur good guys stats. 🤣no in all honesty tho I think playing full game with a starter u pitch well with is ur best style of game and just hope u can squeeze out 4 runs a get the w but u gotta play better brother

Have to improve the starters, ur wasting sonny grays last years.

Dude lower the difficulty. It's not fun to watch you struggle to even hit a pitch.

More raiders content bro.