MLB The Show 17 - Behind the Scenes "Playing Out of Position" Changes

[Caulfield]

Its going to be interesting to see how the Show (online) handles Ian Desmond. Before 2016 he had been almost exclusively a SS (7938 of 7985 inning spent at SS). Then in 2016 he moved to CF for the first time in his big league career. Now there is talk of the Rockies moving him to first base for 2017, again for the first time in his career. I guess that will be addressed in a roster update during the season.

[JTommy67]

Quote: Originally Posted by 41_Tom_Seaver_Fan

THANK YOU, Ramone, for the 'inside look' at the e-mail. I LOVE information like that. I will echo that seeing what their position attribute would be on-screen would be phoenomenal. One other thing...will the "2nd" positions ever get expanded? There are some combos that simply are not there...for example, a LF who also plays 1B and CF/RF. As it is now, you have to chose A) LF....1B B) LF....OF C) 1B...OF (making a LF primarily a 1B) There is no way to have a primary of LF, and a secondary of an OF/1B combo. Same is true of a 2B who can also play SS/3B, you have to give him IF as secondary, adding 1B in there which he does not play. "Custom secondary", like an OF who can also play 2B, 3B would be so cool. Doesn't happen often, but there have been cases. As of now, one of those gets a major hit penalty for the "left out" position. It can be done, because there are SCEA made players that have unique combos for secondary. Having that for us would be great. THANKS again for the info!

^THIS^

The choices are too limiting. We need SS/2B, SS/3B, 2B/3B, OF/1B.

I still favor simply selecting which positions can be played from a chart, which someone noted previously.

[ninertravel]

Quote: Originally Posted by JTommy67

^THIS^ The choices are too limiting. We need SS/2B, SS/3B, 2B/3B, OF/1B. I still favor simply selecting which positions can be played from a chart, which someone noted previously.

it obliviously can be done because they do it for Prado, it's just 'locked' for us to be able to do for some reason. if Online play is the excuse then just lock it for online play!

[Houston]

Currently if you make a 2B and his secondary is 3B,SS you cant give it to him unless you give him all INF which he never has played 1B in his career. The only way to do this currently is make him a 3B and then you can add the 2B/SS which in reality he is the starting 2B not 3B.

Same could go for someone who plays 1B but also 3B and 2B noway to give him just those without giving him SS also using all INF.

Another example is a Catcher who plays 1B, 3B and LF or RF noway to currently just give him those specific positions. It's either you make him his Primary a C then do 1B/3B or you can only make him C/RF or C/LF or even C/OF which he never played CF and guessing a Catcher might not have the speed to cover CF.

[EmmdotFrisk]

[doctorduck]

Seems like a good change. I hope the secondary positions get expanded. Even if it was a checklist where we just click on whichever position we want. Also if franchise had a way to teach players new positions. Like you could choose to have a player practice a position for 2 weeks to a month to make it a secondary but having a chance of failing depending on his fielding attributes and main position. Like a first baseman trying shortstop will fail pretty much everytime but a shortstop learning third will stick 90% of the time and complete the transition quicker. Might work better as a offseason only thing with a limit of how many players you can add positions to(say like 5 or 6 in your entire organization)

It would be nice to be able to add secondary positions without editing because some players don't adjust as well as you would think. Xander Bogaerts was a pretty bad third baseman the half season he was over there if I remember correctly. Then there are players like Holt. He came into 2014 as a middle infielder only but ended up starting 8 games at every position but catcher. And he had a week or two of practice before his first game at first then a week later he moved to the outfield with about the same amount of practice in the middle of the season. Yet despite the lack of practice, he was atleast average at every position.

It would be nice to have that type of flexibility but I can see why that could be hard to put into the game. Just some hopeful thinking

[Caulfield]

Quote: Originally Posted by ninertravel

it obviously can be done because they do it for Prado, it's just 'locked' for us to be able to do for some reason. if Online play is the excuse then just lock it for online play!

Exactly. Let us offline franchise guys add up to 3 secondary positions.

Also I'd like to be able to choose from 3 'new' choices of secondary positions.

1)MI-middle infield
2)CI-corner infield
3)CO-corner outfield

Then, my secondary positions could look like this:
C/CO/CI

Instead of:
C/LF/RF/3B/1B

I guess that would be more for aesthetics and looks 'cleaner' IMO

[WaitTilNextYear]

It sounds like we're all pretty much in agreement that the way secondary positions are currently assignable in the game needs to be changed. SDS may not have the time to change it for this cycle, but hopefully they understand the consensus building on this issue. Basically I should be able to have a CF who I can make have whatever combination of secondaries I want, not just the basic presets of OF, IF, MI, CI, C/1B etc.

They already pre-program SCEA player models this way; the functionality just needs to be unlocked for the gamer (at least in certain modes).