MLB 14: The Show Fact Sheet What's Hot/Not

[jcmreds]

I'm really looking forward to player lock. Not having to build my player up from scratch is a cool option to have.

[Bengals1]

Does anyone know if you can own all of the teams in a season?

[Knight165]

Quote: Originally Posted by Bengals1

Does anyone know if you can own all of the teams in a season?

Do you mean control?
If so...yes.

M.K.
Knight165

[Aggies7]

Good read. I couldn't agree more except I am excited for the player lock. I probably won't use it all the time, but the feature intrigues me.

[Blzer]

I'm confused by "left-handed infielders." By that, I mean does the game stop you from switching a lefty thrower to one of those positions, like second base? I haven't tried, so I'm not sure. Or does it mean you can't create/edit a lefty thrower and assign their primary/secondary positions to one of those positions?

I actually did do this once in World Series Baseball 2K3, and they had an animation tied in for the lefty turning the double-play at second base. It was pretty cool!

[SoxFan01605]

Quote: Originally Posted by Blzer

I'm confused by "left-handed infielders." By that, I mean does the game stop you from switching a lefty thrower to one of those positions, like second base? I haven't tried, so I'm not sure. Or does it mean you can't create/edit a lefty thrower and assign their primary/secondary positions to one of those positions? I actually did do this once in World Series Baseball 2K3, and they had an animation tied in for the lefty turning the double-play at second base. It was pretty cool!

Up until now, the game would automatically switch the player's handedness to right if assigned one of those positions in the editor.

This also had the side effect of accidentally having players' handedness switched even if you just happened to cycle through the "illegal" positions when editing rosters-e.g. if you took your lefty RF and made him 1B, but cycled through 2B to get there, he would become a righty unless you manually went back and changed it.

[Blzer]

What about switching them to those positions in-game?

[BSchwartz07]

Quote: Originally Posted by Blzer

What about switching them to those positions in-game?

If you move a lefty to an IF position in game he'd become right handed while positioned there