MLB 15 The Show: Diamond Dynasty Stock Watch (8-24-15)
Submitted on: 08/24/2015 by
Chase Becotte
Players On The Rise
Coming off two action-packed weeks of roster updates, this one was very light. There’s not a lot to report beyond Hisashi Iwakuma going Gold a little over a week after his no-hitter, and Chris Davis going Gold for hitting every ball ever out of the park.
Adam Loewen is also probably happy the Show developers got around to actually giving him his pitching ratings this week so he gets a plus-34 boost in overall.
As a final note, Curtis Granderson became even more of a platoon partner. He’s got some very solid ratings against right-handed pitching, but his attributes against left-handed pitching took even more of a dive.
Tier Changes
(All thanks go to Daddy Leagues for these numbers! They're so on the ball I no longer have to sync up before and after roster update video clips to do all the changes myself.)
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Aaron Sanchez went from Common to Bronze
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Chris Davis went from Silver to Gold
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Hisashi Iwakuma went from Silver to Gold
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Brett Lawrie went from Bronze to Silver
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Brad A. Mills went from Common to Bronze
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Jimmy Nelson went from Bronze to Silver
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Juan Nicasio went from Common to Bronze
Full List Of Changes
Aaron Sanchez +5 boost in Overall rating (73 Overall)
Chris Davis +2 (86) -- +8 Pwr vs. L
Dana Eveland +3 (65)
Buck Farmer +5 (64)
Hisashi Iwakuma +1 (85)
Brett Lawrie +3 (79)
Felix Doubront +4 (73)
Drew Pomeranz +1 (70)
Brad A. Mills +4 (70)
Curtis Granderson +2 (81) -- +19 Con vs. R / -20 Con vs. L / +8 Pwr vs. R / -17 Pwr vs. L
Jake Brigham +5 (68)
Adam Loewen +34 (58)
Adam Conley +5 (67)
Cole Gillespie +2 (58)
Brandon Moss +1 (76)
Jimmy Nelson +1 (78)
Dylan Axelrod +5 (63)
Juan Nicasio +4 (71)
Randall Delgado +7 (76)
John Axford +1 (71)
Players On The Decline
Much like on the positive side of things, it’s a light week here. Felix Hernandez is struggling and was knocked down again, so he’s very close to losing Diamond status at this point. Carlos Gomez was another Gold impacted as his contact hitting went down against both left-handed and right-handed pitching. Finally, Anthony Rendon lost his Gold status after losing stats against right-handed pitching.
Marlon Byrd lost his Silver status this week, and Anibal Sanchez became a lower-rated Silver as well. Beyond that, there’s not much to focus on here.
Tier Changes
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Alex Colome went from Bronze to Common
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Anthony Rendon went from Gold to Silver
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Cesar Hernandez went from Silver to Bronze
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Marlon Byrd went from Silver to Bronze
Full List Of Changes
Matt Andriese -4 (72)
Alex Colome -5 (65)
Enny Romero -4 (55)
Anibal Sanchez -3 (80)
Drew Ver Hagen -4 (62)
Carlos Gomez -2 (86) -- -7 Con vs. R / -3 Con vs. L
Vince Velasquez -4 (73)
Luis Valbuena -2 (71)
Will Venable -1 (74)
Felix Hernandez -1 (93)
Anthony Rendon -2 (84) -- -5 Con vs. R / -10 Pwr vs. R
Cesar Hernandez -5 (73)
Kike Hernandez -5 (63)
Marlon Byrd -2 (77)
Zach Godley -5 (60)
Tommy Kahnle -1 (71)
Market Changes
There was the Baseball Is Better pack and Break The Scoreboard pack released over the weekend.
Ratings Boost Prediction Results
Let's see how I did on my predictions this week (and as always come back over the weekend for next week's predictions):
-From the High Probability section I went: (1/4)
Not a good week for me. To be fair, almost no players got love this week, so I only hit on Iwakuma.
-From the Moderate Probability section I went: (0/3)
Yep, I put a big ol’ donut up in the Moderate section. Such is life.
-From the Low Probability section I went: (2/3)
Yes, I got one! Curtis Granderson paid off for me, but overall I had clearly gotten spoiled after the last two weeks of major updates and went too wild in my predictions.
New Players
There are 8 new players in Diamond Dynasty this week that will impact Collections:
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Caleb Cotham (NYY)
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Randy Wolf (DET)
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Ryan Strausborger (TEX)
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Kaleb Cowart (LAA)
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Edgar Olmos (SEA)
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Peter Moylan (ATL)
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Kyle Barraclough (MIA)
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Keith Hessler (ARI)
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