MLB 15 The Show: Diamond Dynasty Ratings Boost Predictions (7/12/15)
Submitted on: 07/12/2015 by
Chase Becotte
We're wrapping up another week in the Diamond Dynasty universe, and it's potentially a big week for the mode. The Sony San Diego development team has promised a major ratings shake up around the All-Star break, and so folks are assuming that means the big update will come this week rather than next (the All-Star packs being released over the weekend are a good sign as well).
We're going to jump in on that assumption and change up how the predictions work this week. We'll break down each position into tiers based on where players are rated right now, and then from there we'll simply mention whether we think certain players deserve to go up or down in ratings.
Starting Pitchers
Diamond
- Chris Sale - UP
Gold
- Johnny Cueto - UP
- Dallas Keuchel - UP
- Zack Greinke - UP
- Stephen Strasburg - DOWN
- Corey Kluber - UP
- Sonny Gray - UP
- Gerrit Cole - UP
- Cliff Lee - DOWN
- Jacob deGrom - UP
Silver
- Gio Gonzalez - DOWN
- Andrew Cashner - DOWN
- Jeff Samardzija - UP
- Justin Verlander - DOWN
- Mat Latos - DOWN
- R.A. Dickey - DOWN
- Julio Teheran - DOWN
- Tim Hudson - DOWN
- Carlos Carrasco - UP
- Matt Shoemaker - DOWN
- Phil Hughes - DOWN
- Alex Wood - UP
- Clay Buchholz - UP
- Danny Salazar - UP
- Carlos Martinez - UP
- Rick Porcello - DOWN
- A.J. Burnett - UP
- Jose Quintana - UP
- Jered Weaver - DOWN
- C.C. Sabathia - DOWN
- Alfredo Simon - DOWN
- Yordano Ventura - DOWN
- Ryan Vogelsong - DOWN
- Miguel Gonzalez - DOWN
- Matt Garza - DOWN
- Kyle Lohse - DOWN
- Yovani Gallardo - UP
- Hector Santiago - UP
- Ubaldo Jimenez - UP
- Chris Heston - UP
Bronze
- Chris Tillman - DOWN
- Ian Kennedy - DOWN
- Noah Syndergaard - UP
- Taylor Jungmann - UP
- Robbie Ray - UP
Common
- Kyle Hendricks - UP
- Mike Montgomery - UP
Relievers
Diamond
- Craig Kimbrel - DOWN
Gold
- Glen Perkins - UP
- Wade Davis - UP
- Jeurys Familia - UP
- Trevor Rosenthal - UP
- Kenley Jansen - UP
- Dellin Betances - UP
Silver
- Zach Britton - UP
- Mark Melancon - UP
- Tony Watson - UP
- Drew Storen - UP
- J.J. Hoover - UP
- Francisco Rodriguez - UP
- Shawn Tolleson - UP
- Will Harris - UP
- A.J. Ramos - UP
- Cody Allen - UP
- Danny Farquhar - DOWN
- Fernando Rodney - DOWN
- Yusmeiro Petit - DOWN
Bronze
- Brad Ziegler - UP
- Hector Rondon - UP
- John Axford - UP
- Seth Maness - UP
- Jason Motte - UP
- Carter Capps - UP
- Will Smith - UP
- Jeremy Affeldt - DOWN
- Craig Breslow - DOWN
- Steven Wright - DOWN
- Alex Torres - DOWN
- Alexi Ogando - DOWN
- Zach Duke - DOWN
Common
- Hunter Strickland - UP
- Mark Lowe - UP
- Fernando Rodriguez - UP
Catcher
Silver
- Brian McCann - UP
- Yasmani Grandal - UP
- Derek Norris - UP
- Dioner Navarro - DOWN
- Stephen Vogt - UP
Bronze
- Francisco Cervelli - UP
- Nick Hundley - UP
- Josh Phegley - UP
- Mike Zunino - DOWN
- Rene Rivera - DOWN
Common
- Roberto Perez - UP
- James McCann - UP
First Base
Gold
- Anthony Rizzo - UP
- Jose Abreu - DOWN
Silver
- Carlos Santana - UP
- Adam Lind - UP
- Brandon Belt - UP
- Mark Teixeira - UP
- Joue Mauer - DOWN
- Ryan Zimmerman - DOWN
- Adam LaRoche - DOWN
- Mark Trumbo - DOWN
Bronze
- Logan Morrison - UP
- C.J. Cron - UP
- Justin Bour - UP
Second Base
Gold
- Jason Kipnis - UP
- Brian Dozier - UP
Silver
- Joe Panik - UP
- Chase Utley - DOWN
- Omar Infante - DOWN
Bronze
- D.J. LeMahieu - UP
- Chris Owings - DOWN
- Danny Espinosa - UP
- Brock Holt - UP
- Logan Forsythe - UP
- Jace Peterson - UP
- Stephen Drew - DOWN
Shortstop
Silver
- Ian Desmond - DOWN
- Elvis Andrus - DOWN
- Jimmy Rollins - DOWN
- Jose Iglesias - UP
- Jean Segura - DOWN
- Jhonny Peralta - UP
- Alcides Escobar - UP
- Adeiny Hechavarria - UP
Bronze
- Asdrubal Cabrera - UP
- Jungho Kang - UP
- Jordy Mercer - DOWN
- Xander Bogaerts - UP
- Freddy Galvis - UP
- Brad Miller - UP
- Nick Ahmed - UP
- Carlos Correa - UP
Third Base
Gold
- Todd Frazier - UP
- Manny Machado - UP
- Adrian Beltre - DOWN
Silver
- Kris Bryant - UP
- Chase Headley - DOWN
Bronze
- Pablo Sandoval - DOWN
- Yunel Escobar - UP
- Brett Lawrie - UP
- Yangervis Solarte - UP
- Trevor Plouffe - UP
- Matt Duffy - UP
Right Field
Gold
- Yasiel Puig - DOWN
Silver
- Carlos Beltran - DOWN
- Alex Rios - DOWN
- Jason Heyward - UP
- George Springer - UP
- Josh Reddick - UP
- Kole Calhoun - UP
- J.D. Martinez - UP
- Avisail Garcia - DOWN
- Steven Souza Jr. - UP
- Shin-Soo Choo - DOWN
Center Field
Silver
- Michael Bourn - DOWN
- Lorenzo Cain - UP
- Charlie Blackmon - UP
- Mookie Betts - UP
- Joc Pederson - UP
- Marcell Ozuna - DOWN
Bronze
- Angel Pagan - DOWN
- Kevin Kiermaier - UP
- Billy Burns - UP
Left Field
Gold
- Hanley Ramirez - DOWN
Silver
- Nori Aoki - UP
Bronze
- Melky Cabrera - DOWN
- Gerardo Parra - UP
- David Peralta - UP
- Chris Coghlan - UP
so much for that all star break update they talked about.
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