MLB 13 The Show Video Interview - Franchise and Road to the Show Changes

[JayD]

Braves scout pitchers big time IRL and put out many good young pitchers that in many times become trade bate so not all of them will actually play at the MLB level. Look at the most recent Upton trade, the only way that it could of been done is with depth at the pitcher position which the Braves almost always have. They were willing to give away one of their top pitching prospects due to the fact they still have many top rated prospects even after. Now back on topic.

[Rob_NYY]

All of this sounds so awesome!! This time of the year is always so difficult. Football is essentially over and, while I enjoy hockey and basketball, I am a baseball nut and nothing can really fill the gap. This time of year I'm just waiting for spring training to start and for the newest version of MLB: The Show.

I always get the baseball itch right after New Years and the wait is tortuous. I tried to play MLB 12 a few times but it's just not the same after hearing about all the new features in 13. I wish someone would freeze me in carbonite and hang me up on Jabba's wall until March 5th.

[Knight165]

Who cares if the team strategy for team building is "real to life"?

It's in the game and they are trying to bring more strategy into the game through these new features and that's what's important IMO.
(plus...there are no real indicators on what a team is interested in ...in regards to this...it's up to you to figure it out and I believe Aaron said it does change as the league strengths change throughout franchise)

All of the new additions are definitely "Step 1" in their introduction and the directions in which the dev team plans on taking these(and more) are pretty impressive.

M.K.
Knight165

[catch212]

Quote: Originally Posted by seanjeezy

Being a little nitpicky, but I don't like how Ramone keeps on referring to the Braves org as a pitching factory... They really haven't developed any studs for quite some time now lol

Medlen, Minor, Beachy, Venters, Teheran, Kimbrel, etc.

And those are only the guys currently on their MLB staff...

[seanjeezy]

Quote: Originally Posted by catch212

Medlen, Minor, Beachy, Venters, Teheran, Kimbrel, etc. And those are the guys currently on their MLB staff...

Like I said, I probably worded it wrong in my post but in the vid he was commenting on the Braves' ability to churn out "ace" pitchers, which hasn't been the case since the 90's... In fact, I parsed through the data from 2000-2012 and in 12 years the list of productive, home grown major league pitchers was very sparse... Compare that to the number of quality hitters they have produced (more recently at least), its a big difference.

[nomo17k]

Quote: Originally Posted by seanjeezy

Like I said, I probably worded it wrong in my post but in the vid he was commenting on the Braves' ability to churn out "ace" pitchers, which hasn't been the case since the 90's... In fact, I parsed through the data from 2000-2012 and in 12 years the list of productive, home grown major league pitchers was very sparse... Compare that to the number of quality hitters they have produced (more recently at least), its a big difference.

But that's really a minor point though... for someone unfortunate enough to have been a fan of a team in the same division as the Braves, the memory of pitching dominance that they were since early-90s lives on. It was an amazing run for them.

[seanjeezy]

Quote: Originally Posted by nomo17k

But that's really a minor point though... for someone unfortunate enough to have been a fan of a team in the same division as the Braves, the memory of pitching dominance that they were since early-90s lives on. It was an amazing run for them.

It is, that's why I said I was nitpicking lol. Truthfully the Braves pitching prospects have been hyped to death, so I'm not surprised that the term "ace" has been used so much to describe the quality of their pitchers.

[AUTiger1]

I am so excited for this game that I'm screaming on the inside like a little girl at a Justin Bieber concert. This video on franchise mode just blew my mind!