MLB 15 The Show: Diamond Dynasty Ratings Boost Predictions (8/30/15)

[ChaseB]

Another week is wrapping up in Diamond Dynasty. It was a busy week with the marketplace being tweaked and market caps being put in place. In addition, free packs were given out to every user as a sign of good faith and to hopefully bring down prices on certain pieces of equipment that had been used to swap black-market Stubs. Beyond that, the Shut It Down pack was also released. With that in mind, it's time to look ahead once again and try to predict who might be getting a ratings boost on Monday morning.

I'll be breaking the predictions into tiers based on my own confidence level.

Ratings Boost Probability: High

-Francisco Lindor - Carlos Correa maybe stole some of his thunder, but Lindor has also had a very good rookie season at shortstop. The power isn’t on the level of Correa’s, but he’s playing solid defense and has an OPS around .800 while getting on base at a .350 clip.

-Jake Arrieta - Arrieta will be 30 as he heads into his second year of arbitration so it will be interesting to see if he ever gets a huge payday, but it’s hard to fathom how good he’s been for the Cubs. In the past month of starts, he has another 31 strikeouts in 33 innings pitched, plus a 0.54 ERA and 0.84 WHIP.

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[RevisIsland24]

Daniel Murphy? Yoenis Cespedes?

[RevisIsland24]

Also, maybe Nathan Eovaldi and A.J. Pollock?

[theu715]

Archer to diamond. Kiermaier to high silver, best defender in baseball, speed and base running are way under and over the last two weeks he's hitting around .400 with a couple HR's. Not going to stop saying these two till it happens!

[CrazyBruin12]

jackie bradley Jr has been great in august he should get higher in ovr

[ChaseB]

Quote: Originally Posted by RevisIsland24

Daniel Murphy? Yoenis Cespedes?

Cespedes got updated not too long ago, otherwise I would have included him. Murphy I could see on some level but looking at what his attributes are now not sure where the boost comes from.

Quote: Originally Posted by RevisIsland24

Also, maybe Nathan Eovaldi and A.J. Pollock?

Eovaldi I don't see. Good month but they're stingy about pitchers overall, especially with a lack of a track record. Pollock I pushed for a bunch but he was hitting even better the two weeks prior to this one and didn't get the bump.

Quote: Originally Posted by theu715

Archer to diamond. Kiermaier to high silver, best defender in baseball, speed and base running are way under and over the last two weeks he's hitting around .400 with a couple HR's. Not going to stop saying these two till it happens!

I'll be on the Kiermaier train with you until the end, but I can't expect a boost now after everything else he's done and still been basically flat. Archer I don't see as a Diamond simply because they aren't pushing guys to Diamond much, especially not pitchers.

Quote: Originally Posted by CrazyBruin12

jackie bradley Jr has been great in august he should get higher in ovr

Jackie Bradley has been really good. Again, thought he was hitting even better than before this week so decided to leave him off -- especially because there were so few updated players last week.

[ZB9]

Mitch Moreland still being a bronze and having a worse defense rating than Prince Fielder is ridic.

[ChaseB]

Quote: Originally Posted by ZB9

Mitch Moreland still being a bronze and having a worse defense rating than Prince Fielder is ridic.

That it is, but again, they rarely change defense and Mitch got one boost a bit ago so don't see another at this juncture. Hope to be wrong on a lot of these though!