MLB 14 The Show: Little Issues Hampering the Fun

[ShaBoomer]

Quote: Originally Posted by @legendm0de

Related to statistics mention earlier, I wish injuries and DL stints were kept track of. So when signing a free agent, I will not know of any significant injuries (like if he's had shoulder surgery?). It's kind of significant.

I agree that it's significant in real life, but injuries have no future impact in the game. Not even directly after the player returns. So when the offseason comes, it's as if no player was ever injured.

There's likely no room in the game for it, but I would love to see injuries overhauled. Make injuries have an impact on the player, over the course of the current season and their career. If a pitcher has TJ (would need to be added to the game in itself), he should lose some stats for the first year after returning.

If a player breaks a leg/ankle, they should lose some speed. How many players come back instantly at 100%? Back injuries should have an impact on durability/stamina, as in real life. Etc, etc, etc...

[@legendm0de]

Yea, they would have to overhaul an entire injury system into the game because it's really non-existent. There are still not even rehab assignments yet, I'm confident this is something they are working on though.

[DGuinta1]

I want unclean batters boxes. Chalk is always perfect during game play.

[authentic]

I think this years game is a solid effort. I have really enjoyed my time with the game so far and I have played probably close to 100 games. One of my biggest gripes is the fielding in this game and I can't believe this article didn't touch on that. I personally feel like the fielding part of the game is the worst aspect overall of this franchise. There are so many canned animations that don't look good, players have no sense of urgency. It doesn't matter if Adam Dunn is running to first or if Billy Hamilton is running to first, if it's a ball hit to the right of my shortstop, he'll still take a step back and make a weak throw. Fielders still catch almost everything which reduces weak hits and variety. This is most likely an issue with fly balls always being so high, but sometimes infielders will catch balls they have no business getting to. I wouldn't mind if they did a complete overhaul on the fielding. I don't believe it can get much worse than it is right now.

[@legendm0de]

I also wish it wasn't so easy to sign young arbitration aged players to pretty tame contracts based on the way other players have reported being able to do. I saw Julio Tehran last night with a 5 year, 1.1M a season contract. Perhaps I am dead wrong, but I don't know if that is nearly accurate. However, in real life, there was a big fuss last year when Mike Trout had to sign a 1 YR/ 1 M contract with Anaheim, but now they have given him a much more realistic deal, so they only got away with doing that to him for one season.

I really don't know what exactly is the correct way these contracts are supposed to be, but I wish it was a little bit more competitive to agree with a young "star player". I know that in real life, George Springer has already rejected 1 or 2 contracts offered by the Astros so I wish the process was a more competitive one. And this would mean the need for unlocking the contract revision period only being limited to the offseason. Negotiations can be done where, the agent says to us no more negotiation until the season is over or something, but don't lock us out of it entirely. Hopefully whatever issue with the arbitration contracts can be patched and then worked on more completely for the new game.

[coolkev21]

aside from the online franchise and contact swing issue...

all the rest are very little things.

good read though. thanks man

[teebee]

Ball icon? While hitting??

What/?!

[tmoney51691]

All I know is I'm having a blast, and that's all that really matters.