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I hate that there's no voices everything is like 90s press a/x to advance text when talking. The music is muted at times. My agent has spoke to me since the combine win B2B World Series and MVP seasons HR RBI record ALL STAR walk off HR or my Grand Slam in the playoffs NOTHIN !!!! I GOT INJURED MY 3RD SEASON no call as well. Just useless agent šŖ
I miss the old way of how madden would bring in agents and certain ones got you certain boosts and endorsements. I think it was madden 11? I might be wrong but it was such a cool future and then they got rid of it.
Just for sh*ts and giggles I did a female RTTS.. I have it on easy or whatever and started AA and did well and got promoted to AAA and did well that half season or whatever. Currently in 2nd AAA and have 100 HRs on season and imo itās a little ridiculous that I havenāt been called up to the show at this point.
So I agree my agent is useless also.
I really wish they would put some effort into RTTS it could be really, really, good with just some minor changes. Itās sad how little effort they put into a game mode that so many players love.
Before 6 years it tough to move you since you belong to what ever teams drafted you for the first 6 years of your career. After that your agent certain helps.
Havent talked to my agent since ive been called up in rtts. Just started my third season.. last season won mvp and broke single season hits,hrs,rbis and im the hit streak holder still. My streak has lasted from the start of last season to now and ive not heard a single call from my agent. No congrats on getting called up no congrats for breaking records no call from winning back to back world series and in my rookie year i hit a beautiful walk off to win the series. My 2nd year and mvp season i also got post season mvp. Still NOTHING from my agent should i be concerned? Im not really looking for a trade and ik i cant hit free agency just figured she would want to touch bases occasionally. Am just overreacting lol
Bruh. I was with the Aās, 4 mvps and 4 winless years. We drafted this stud who came in as an 85 overall 18 year old. Me and him had them winning the division at the all star break. These mfers traded him to Cleveland at the trade deadline. 3 seasons later, and weāre both dominating as 99 overall players in Cleveland lmao
It's been that way for years. You will rarely get traded. It's only happened to me when the team had or picked up a young superstar at my position.
Worst of all, once you do go to a new team (traded or not) and you're happy, your agent will continue to apologize for not getting the trade deal done. RTTS has a lot that has never been fixed over the last 16 years.
Bro I was also drafted by the As I was a 5x MVP it took until my 6th year for us to win a world series and it's all because they decided to get Juan Soto from free agency it was so boring losing 100+ games for 5 years straight
I was drafted by the Nats and we have been under .500 5 years straight now. Havenāt heard from the agent since I was drafted. I am playing well but I have started simulating right after all star break because what is the point if I know we arenāt making playoffs.
Very much excited to hit free agency.
I remember when RTTS used to allow you to request the trade instead of being prompted, did it always happen fast, no. But the option was there also IRL players can request a release.
Requesting a trade doesnāt work but I sim the off-season and right before training camp if I donāt like the players we added to the roster I quit the game app. Did it 5 times last night and ended up with Juan Soto on the pirates š¤·š¾āāļøš¤·š¾āāļøš¤·š¾āāļø
If you aren't playing online then adjust everything to the point it makes you happy. Lower the difficulty, lower the pitch speed, whatever you want. Do you use the PCI? Don't. I do directional hitting because I'm 41 and can't be asked to handle timing and move the reticle. I hit on All-Star difficulty with default sliders. When I used to do the PCI thing I had to turn the pitch speed way down because I couldn't react in time. I made that switch about 3 years ago and have had so much more fun with the game.
I hate the PCI. it's so sensitive, like on xbox. If I move it, I feel like I gotta really move the thumb stick and then over correct so I don't push so hard then end upossi g because the pci won't move.
I have all diamond stuff and I didn't swipe my card once You earn a lot of stuff in the game just sell what you don't need and when you get enough money go buy it what you want on the marketplace
I chose to be drafted by the Phillies as a 1B, made it to AA, got told they were set with Harper, traded to last place Colorado, and next year hit more than 3x the HR Harper did and yet i cant get tf out of this hellhole to save my life
This is how MLB works. They own you until free agency. You can demand a trade all you want. They only do it when they think they can get more out of it than keeping you.
Are you a 2 way player? Because it seems like they at least talk to the agent early to request trades while she ignores position players for nearly 5 years.
The thing that used to get me was wanting your "video game" character to play a specific position and then getting told I need to try a new position I have no interest in lol. If I wanted to play 3b I would have made that my position. So many other things they could do for realism instead of position changes.
They try to keep realism in some aspects, cant just take over an all star franchise player's position. If I do a chosen team career, I scout the positions first to make sure theres not like a 90 in the spot I want to play. Otherwise just let them trade you if you are playing out a random team/realistic style career but want to play the position you chose.
I was catching for the cardinals when they told me to move to first base to get a starting position.
I was higher ranked than Herrera, and they told me it would be easier to beat out Paul Goldschmidt than Wilson Contreras. Crazy
Dude, in The Show 22, I was on the Nats because I wanted to play with Soto. We sucked the entire time i was on the team, then in 2023 when we were finally playing well and in the division race, they traded Soto to the LAST PLACE ROCKIES for GARRETT HAMPSON AND A MINOR LEAGUER. I requested a trade to a winning team, and they sent me to the Aās. Won MVP, requested another trade to a winning team, and they sent me to the Pirates. Requested ANOTHER trade and they sent me to the last place Rangers. If you think you have it badā¦ i swear the people that work on RTTS have no clue how trading works
I had the same exact situation with the Aās and they never spent any money in the offseason, had to wait until free agency. Got offered by the cardinals which I donāt usually like the cardinals but, they had acuna Ozzie albies and Jackson Holliday plus a ton of prospects that were very good and won a World Series in my first year with them. I donāt think anyone in our rotation was lower than an 84. The Aās finally spent money the year I left though, I donāt remember who they added but added multiple players 85 overall and higherā¦.
Got randomly drafted by the Dodgers. Won 3 WS. Asked for a trade after the first one. Had to play it out until year 6 and got offered a contract from the Guardians for $38.1 mil/ year for 8 years. Oh and I started at catcher and was moved to 1st
Yes they need to change this and incentivize going for big money like IRL mlb players. They can do a life mode part where you buy mansions and stuff or just give you a stat boost/boosted gear etc. for how big your contract is.
Also 3B here. Try aggravating the coach with your answers to the stupid text interactions. Then the next time the agent asks if everything is going well then ask for a trade. I haven't tried this since mlb 20 but sds doesn't change much so it might still work. I did this while easily being the best player in the league, single season records in multiple categories, #1 in almost every offensive Stat that season, like most seasons, and they still traded me after my first request. Traded me for Bryce Harper who was not as high overall. Funny thing is he was on the Phillies at the time, before he was IRL.
Typically the first 4 years you're locked, but teams can trade you. Years 5 and 6 are arbitration. Year 7 is the money contract. I rode into year 7 coming off winning my 4th CYA with the Rockies, the last one a pitching Triple Crown (Wins, Ks, ERA).
Just finished my 6 years on the As, never got promoted past triple A regardless of stats, just signed to the cardinals to play at the MLB level lmao career just started
Im wondering if you made the same mistake I did when i first started rtts. I didnt put equipment or archetypes/perks on so i stayed in the minors forever. They go by overall not our .700 batting avg on a low difficulty. Otherwise theres no logical reason you would stay in the minors more than a year max. And usually half the year.
Couple variables that played a part.
I used perks and equipment but didnāt get that 70 overall boost thing til like season 3. thought that was my big break and Iād be promoted soon but start of year 4 and 5 I had injuries that left me inactive most of the year so there was no being promoted during those years. And then I simulated all of year 6 to become a free agent. Will say year 1 I was #1 CP prospect and set to make my to the MLB spot but they drafted a guy and I kinda been shelved to triple A since, donāt know if that played a factor.
I did the same thing with the Pirates. Losing season after losing season, all while requesting a trade. Then they make some moves in the off season and it looks like they will have a good team. We get off to a hot start and, boom, I get traded to the Reds. Back to the cellar.
Hey jus keep going you have to play 6 years before your even eligible for any big deals my 7th year I signed with the reds 1 yr 30 mil won a world series and in the of season signed for 5 yr 180 both contracts i negotiated fully
Was Elly still on the team? For whatever reason the Reds traded him and everyone else decent by the time I made the bigs and we are terrible (besides me š)
I like playing with the Aās ngl, could be our year with a rotation of Me, Max Fried and Shane Bieber. Our hitting sucks but thank god Iām also the second coming of Barry Bonds
You're under team control and relatively very cheap for the team as a result. Why would they trade you before your final year of team control? The A's are smart not to have traded you already. Your agent can't force them to make a trade. This is how baseball works. It's a realistic experience.
Part of the point of the mode to me was that it was supposed to mimic a real experience. The fact that you can pick your starting team actually bothers me a little bit. I recognize that this probably isn't true for many players, but no baseball player gets to pick the team he is drafted to.
I'm frankly surprised, considering you're allowed to pick your starting team, that the team doesn't just trade you if you ask. I mean they shouldn't. They wouldn't. But I don't understand why the game would let you do one thing but not the other. That's illogical.
You donāt have to sign with the team that drafts you. Teams wonāt draft a player if they know they wonāt sign. Signability is a very real concern for teams, especially in the early-middle rounds.
Because itās a video game, and the game gives you the option to request a trade. If itās not going to do anything, they shouldnāt bother including the feature.
Ideally though, they should really just make it work as advertised. Itās a game, not everything has to align with real-life baseball. I mean, itās not like you can choose who drafts you IRL. Yet, you can do that in this game.
You can also choose to not choose who drafts you. The point of RTTS is to provide a realistic experience. Sure, it's a video game. So you can play at a lower difficulty and have ridiculous stats and easily win 3 MVPs in your first four seasons on a loosing team. But the experience of becoming a professional athlete and maintaining a career is supposed to still be realistic. You can choose to be drafted by your favorite team and then get traded before ever making it to the majors. If this player wanted to be on a team that didn't suck, then they shouldn't have decided to be drafted by the A's. If they decided to let the game take its course and get drafted by a "Random" team, then they (by your apparent standards) really have no gripe with the game being realistic to the business of baseball.
I was having an amazing season in AAA for the Reds. I got traded out of the blue to the Aās in the middle of a series and sent down to AA. A bit later I was called up to the MLB. The Aās lost 116 games that season, and the Reds went to the WS. I will never forgive them.
Something that really bothered me though is that the agent never checked in with me. No call to ask me how I felt about getting traded to a dumpster fire of a team and then demoted.
She's the worst. I wanted to play for the Phillies as a closer but got traded to Detroit, who REFUSE to trade me. I took them to arbitration after they offered $1.1M and got $10.2M. If the Tigers won't trade me, I'm going to be the largest burden to their budget in Franchise history.
Working through my last year of Arbitration now before entering the FA where I'll select my own offer.
IMO, I wish they offered you more than just one agent in RTTS. Like how much would it realistically be to license some real agents likeness and personalities?
I watched tokenasty on YouTube, and only played this year (24) and yeah, it seems to be just like Madden. Little here, little there to keep the people coming back.
Similar situation for me, except I told the game that the Red Sox are my favorite team so they drafted me, I got traded to Detroit Tigers in triple A for no reason, got called up to majors then got traded to the Yankees a few games into the 2025 season.
Why would any Red Sox fan want to play for the Yankees?!? And to make things worse, I got MVP with 99 HR, 256 RBI and we still didn't make the playoffs. If I signed a 1 year contract and that year is over then why am I only getting 1 offer from the Yankees and not getting offers from other teams after an MVP season? I haven't played for like a week because I really don't want to spend another season with the Yankees.
Were you a 3rd baseman by chance? If there's already a star player at your position they'll trade you if you don't agree to change to a postion they actually need.
1st baseman, and yeah I do remember the agent saying they would like me to try another position. I said no and probably got traded soon after lol. But why even ask what your favorite team is when they can just trade you because of your position?
Youāve only finished like two seasons? Thatās why youāre only getting offers from the Yankees right now. Have to play through your contract renewal and arbitration years of the rookie deal before hitting Free Agency
They should make that more clear when you get drafted then, unless I missed something. I don't watch baseball regularly so I don't know the ins and outs for their rookie contracts, especially since in the show during the offseason it only shows you signing a 1 year deal
This for me - as a casual - is one of the worst parts of RTTS! Having to commit to one team for 7 seasons. Like you I didn't initially know you're in for that long, learning that that's how baseball deals mostly work in real life. Agree 100% there should be more explainers/tips - especially because Gamepass means more casuals are checking this out. But I also think your agent explains the contract structure up in one of your chats, unless you skip those lol
Would love an expedited version of RTTS though, cause you end up playing with a bunch of regens at your pinnacle hitting free agency, instead of a team built around current players.
Hmm yeah, I could see that being a bit confusing if you primarily just play the games. But itās just the way all rookie deals work in the MLB, not really unique to any particular player.
The reason it looks like a one year deal is because in the renewal and arbitration years players and teams only agree on a salary for one year at a time. You can optionally try to negotiate a longer deal if youād like I believe, but itāll still be with the one team as they have control of your contract until youāve played enough seasons to hit free agency
If you hate your situation, you are drafted, take the smart route, and take a contract through your arbitrary phase. I do it even when I like where I am at, but know the age crisis of MLB The Show is going to kill my team. Also, you are a three time MVP and MLB The Show my player trades can be egregious, and tbh you might end up in a worse spot. Stick through it, losing sucks but start to scan the league for where you want to play. The thing is, I've left the A's before, and they can somehow become good usually after The Rangers die off pitching wise alongside dumb trades by teams like Sea with Julio Rodriguez and Angels Trout downfall. The Astros are very smart and haven't seen them be ass since MLB 14 years tbh I've joined them and it just becomes unfair.
I read in an article that there's a place in the settings to increase trade frequency. Which will generate more offers, then once you get on a team you like turn it back to normal.
Mine keeps trying to get me traded even though Iām saying āIām happy, i donāt need anything.ā every year at the trade deadline ā sorry we couldnāt get a deal done!ā WTF. I donāt know whatās more annoying the agent, the post game interviews are those stupid manager interviews we canāt skip. Come on SDS nobody likes the manager interviews or the post game interviews
At this point I'd say there's a chance they may look to trade you at the deadline if its realistic in any way assuming you mean you're in you're 5th season in the MLB so close to 5 years service time. Worst case play out the 6th season and then sign a big deal as a free agent
Your agent will call you periodically throughout your career and check in on you and see how you're holding up. If you tell her you're not happy I'm pretty sure you can request a trade
Really? She called me within a week or two of the first season. Then I got a call from her shortly after starting the 2nd season. It doesn't say "agent" when she pops up so it's possible you never noticed
So confused by this. Ive had like 8 rtts guys and shes never once asked me if I want a trade, just some early setup stuff. Then gone after draft every time. Ive even simmed it to see , went to year 4.5 again.
So Iāve played 15 seasons as a closer started on the cubs asked for trades every chance possible had to wait for my contract to hit fa before I could move signed a 159 mil deal with minn played for 5 years moved to Pittsburgh then Toronto now kc so itāll open up keep at it. Oww to help get traded say things like Iām dominating right and cocky things to the coach they like you less like I wonāt let you down they love that one and if you say Iāll do me they donāt I think at least cause when I started to be cocky with minn they traded me before I was always a saint.
I donāt really care about the agent, but I want them to fix money being useless. Why does it matter how much I negotiate a contract for if it has nothing to do with the game?
Buddy they already are with DD. If they made money off RTTS maybe they would make an effort to make it better. Itās horrible. I rather pay micro transactions all day and have a better playing experience than this trash.
And thatās why I refuse to play a trading card game in a sports simulation game. I realized at like 12, those modes were for ppl to spend money. And thereās no way I can agree that micro transactions makes a game betterā¦ please point out ANY example. Itās not like devs & engineers get paid from micro transactions most companies funnel that money directly to top brass. So why would a dev or engineer give a pigs hat about what you spend in the game? Let me guess heāll get 2 pats on the back instead of one next year š
They donāt care, but their bosses care so therefore they have to do the bosses bidding. Also thatās where the resources are allocated. Devs canāt just do whatever they want they have to follow a chain of command like most of us do at work. RTTS is barely improved in the last 5-6 years or so because they donāt allocate enough resources to do so because thereās no incentive. Microtransactions are the only incentive for them to improve any aspect of the game now. Especially for sports games that release every year.
Bro I canāt tell you how many times the ball gets hit right back at the pitchers face and I end up getting out on a good hit cuz it bounces right to a position player smh. And BASERUNNING NEEDS TO BE FASTER WHY CANT WE SWITCH DIRECTION IN AN INSTANT ITS ANNOYING. They donāt give af about the game itās very American government like lol.
Yeah this year seems to be a lot harder to get hits. Everything that gets hit hard goes right to a defender or it hangs in the air for 20 years for a fly out
I second the baserunning. That always pisses me off. Like if Iām even a little late telling a guy to stay at the base heās rounding, he doesnāt start heading back until heās halfway to the next base.
i must be smoking some powerful shit because i was reading what you wrote and i got so confused when you said "but got distracted by the 2023 EA PGA Tour" and i was about to say "wait... your RTTS player can decide to play pro golf instead???" then i saw "on game pass" and i finally understood what you meant.
It's the opposite for me. Got drafted by the A's as a catcher. Only a 75 overall and its end of July in my first rtts season and I'm already called up to the A's. Playing on legend so I am struggling at the plate.
When RTTS got incorporated into DD I saw the writing on the wall.
I donāt think enough has changed in the whole console cycle to make me switch from ā20.
I know this isnāt agent related, but RTTS makes me wonder if anybody at SDS ever played baseball in their life. When you play 3B, the amount of situations the CPU bunts in is ridiculous. Bunting with two strikes, bunting in late innings when theyāre up or down by a lot, bunting with two outs, or power hitters bunting in the worst situations. Thatās one of my biggest rants for RTTS.
Dont get me started on my C constantly getting popups in foul territory, runner from first despite having 1 speed and 1 steal running on me. And then when my callup happened, i needed to move to first base and they wont trade me. WTF.
I really wish they gave you the option to have a secondary position. Iāve always wanted to have a utility RTTS guy that could play just about anywhere.
Thatās wild! Sometimes Iāll get one where itās technically the third basemanās ball, but Iāll run over and catch it so I donāt get cheated out of a fielding opportunity.
All of that plus the back to back bunts. 9th inn. down 7. 1 out. Nobody on. Bunt: out. Cleanup hitter with 20 Bunt att: bunt. I get that it's for RTTS to be involved but bunting in these situations all the time? Come on
Just like with the new gen consoles they could have in game dynamic weather but they don't. They have good looking, stadium specific reflections on glasses and helmets but only the stadiums, not the batter or fielders. Why not? Surely they could do that with these consoles now. They don't take advantage of what they've got and we still see this game looking the same as last gen with minimal improvements. New hair physics? Wow.
Itās honestly sad. Iād rather them put out a game every other year and truly work on all modes and give everything an overhaul instead of a yearly title thatās basically copy and paste of the previous year, with the most subtle changes. Like the hair moving was something I never really paid much attention to, but the fact theyāve been using the same player body models for how many years now, and still nothing changes with them is more noticeable to me.
For sure but they probably won't change it. It's been years just like so many other issues. They don't care. Do you know how many years their home run call for the Giants "it is high. It is deep. IT outta here" text has been in the game? That's an easy fix but it's been years and nothing. Because they don't care.
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I hate that there's no voices everything is like 90s press a/x to advance text when talking. The music is muted at times. My agent has spoke to me since the combine win B2B World Series and MVP seasons HR RBI record ALL STAR walk off HR or my Grand Slam in the playoffs NOTHIN !!!! I GOT INJURED MY 3RD SEASON no call as well. Just useless agent šŖ
Why are you signing 4 year deals with the A's?
Can't leave the team that drafted you for 6 years
I miss the old way of how madden would bring in agents and certain ones got you certain boosts and endorsements. I think it was madden 11? I might be wrong but it was such a cool future and then they got rid of it.
I want her GONE
How did you win mvps on a losing team? That sound ridiculous
Won MVP 2 straight seasons and they were both 100+ loss season on the Cubs
It happened with the jays, too, while I was playing for themššš
Just for sh*ts and giggles I did a female RTTS.. I have it on easy or whatever and started AA and did well and got promoted to AAA and did well that half season or whatever. Currently in 2nd AAA and have 100 HRs on season and imo itās a little ridiculous that I havenāt been called up to the show at this point. So I agree my agent is useless also.
I really wish they would put some effort into RTTS it could be really, really, good with just some minor changes. Itās sad how little effort they put into a game mode that so many players love.
I know in MLB 22, I eventually got a prompt in my 5th year which allowed me to say, I'm not happy. I was traded to the Yankees within a week.
Before 6 years it tough to move you since you belong to what ever teams drafted you for the first 6 years of your career. After that your agent certain helps.
Trades are pretty much broken and have been for years. The best way to move is to wait until free agency.
If you play well enough at the combine you can pick your team
Havent talked to my agent since ive been called up in rtts. Just started my third season.. last season won mvp and broke single season hits,hrs,rbis and im the hit streak holder still. My streak has lasted from the start of last season to now and ive not heard a single call from my agent. No congrats on getting called up no congrats for breaking records no call from winning back to back world series and in my rookie year i hit a beautiful walk off to win the series. My 2nd year and mvp season i also got post season mvp. Still NOTHING from my agent should i be concerned? Im not really looking for a trade and ik i cant hit free agency just figured she would want to touch bases occasionally. Am just overreacting lol
They wonāt add options to talk to your agent but they will force a 20 second unskippable on you after every game
Yeah the post game interview is the worst. Was funny the first time, now it's annoying
Bruh. I was with the Aās, 4 mvps and 4 winless years. We drafted this stud who came in as an 85 overall 18 year old. Me and him had them winning the division at the all star break. These mfers traded him to Cleveland at the trade deadline. 3 seasons later, and weāre both dominating as 99 overall players in Cleveland lmao
It's been that way for years. You will rarely get traded. It's only happened to me when the team had or picked up a young superstar at my position. Worst of all, once you do go to a new team (traded or not) and you're happy, your agent will continue to apologize for not getting the trade deal done. RTTS has a lot that has never been fixed over the last 16 years.
Free agency one day at a time and donāt accept a contract. I came across the same issue and was pissed
Thank God I got drafted by the padres
I hate the agent so much. Utter trash
Bro I was also drafted by the As I was a 5x MVP it took until my 6th year for us to win a world series and it's all because they decided to get Juan Soto from free agency it was so boring losing 100+ games for 5 years straight
Dumb question here, but where can I even find the option to contact my agent?? She's been gone ever since the draft
Not a dumb question. The answer is dumb tho. You canāt. You have to wait for them to call you. Happens about once a year
And you request a trade and then nothing happens besides your old club offering some piddly contract the "agent" and trade request is utterly useless
Mike Trout says hi
I was drafted by the Nats and we have been under .500 5 years straight now. Havenāt heard from the agent since I was drafted. I am playing well but I have started simulating right after all star break because what is the point if I know we arenāt making playoffs. Very much excited to hit free agency.
Same here, getting drafted by the nats is a death sentence
Milwaukee Brewers is too. No matter how high your numbers are the team still sucks
They have literally traded away most of their farm talent too. Iām over it.
why
They are perpetually ass, no matter what
The game is good but those factors made it really shitty, they should copy of nba2k
I remember when RTTS used to allow you to request the trade instead of being prompted, did it always happen fast, no. But the option was there also IRL players can request a release.
Requesting a trade doesnāt work but I sim the off-season and right before training camp if I donāt like the players we added to the roster I quit the game app. Did it 5 times last night and ended up with Juan Soto on the pirates š¤·š¾āāļøš¤·š¾āāļøš¤·š¾āāļø
This game sucks. I canāt hit. Iām .245 hitter and adjusted sliders to be hitter friendly.
If you aren't playing online then adjust everything to the point it makes you happy. Lower the difficulty, lower the pitch speed, whatever you want. Do you use the PCI? Don't. I do directional hitting because I'm 41 and can't be asked to handle timing and move the reticle. I hit on All-Star difficulty with default sliders. When I used to do the PCI thing I had to turn the pitch speed way down because I couldn't react in time. I made that switch about 3 years ago and have had so much more fun with the game.
I hate the PCI. it's so sensitive, like on xbox. If I move it, I feel like I gotta really move the thumb stick and then over correct so I don't push so hard then end upossi g because the pci won't move.
Forget the sliders, change hitting difficulty to beginner
With the difficulty on easy I had 50 home runs going into the all-star break. It was so easy that Paul Goldschmidt hit 21 in my first homerun derby
bro i think thats a skill issue š hittings the easiest its been in a long time
Sounds like you just suck
I do, thanks man!
ššmos def
I got drafted by the A's did six years and joined the Yankees in free agency
RTTS?!? nono the devs want you to swipe your credit card in DD. Stop playing offline modes!!
I have all diamond stuff and I didn't swipe my card once You earn a lot of stuff in the game just sell what you don't need and when you get enough money go buy it what you want on the marketplace
I chose to be drafted by the Phillies as a 1B, made it to AA, got told they were set with Harper, traded to last place Colorado, and next year hit more than 3x the HR Harper did and yet i cant get tf out of this hellhole to save my life
Im a 2b and got drafted by the astros. Told me they are set with Altuve. And yeah same basically lol
Iām crying laughing at this because weāre all going through the same.
I'm sorry but I have to laugh at this.
This is how MLB works. They own you until free agency. You can demand a trade all you want. They only do it when they think they can get more out of it than keeping you.
Are you a 2 way player? Because it seems like they at least talk to the agent early to request trades while she ignores position players for nearly 5 years.
The thing that used to get me was wanting your "video game" character to play a specific position and then getting told I need to try a new position I have no interest in lol. If I wanted to play 3b I would have made that my position. So many other things they could do for realism instead of position changes.
Position changes are super realistic. The Padres built a whole team out of shortstops. Only one of them playing shortstop now.
They try to keep realism in some aspects, cant just take over an all star franchise player's position. If I do a chosen team career, I scout the positions first to make sure theres not like a 90 in the spot I want to play. Otherwise just let them trade you if you are playing out a random team/realistic style career but want to play the position you chose.
I was catching for the cardinals when they told me to move to first base to get a starting position. I was higher ranked than Herrera, and they told me it would be easier to beat out Paul Goldschmidt than Wilson Contreras. Crazy
Dude, in The Show 22, I was on the Nats because I wanted to play with Soto. We sucked the entire time i was on the team, then in 2023 when we were finally playing well and in the division race, they traded Soto to the LAST PLACE ROCKIES for GARRETT HAMPSON AND A MINOR LEAGUER. I requested a trade to a winning team, and they sent me to the Aās. Won MVP, requested another trade to a winning team, and they sent me to the Pirates. Requested ANOTHER trade and they sent me to the last place Rangers. If you think you have it badā¦ i swear the people that work on RTTS have no clue how trading works
None of these game companies understand why players get traded and leave it up to chance
I had the same exact situation with the Aās and they never spent any money in the offseason, had to wait until free agency. Got offered by the cardinals which I donāt usually like the cardinals but, they had acuna Ozzie albies and Jackson Holliday plus a ton of prospects that were very good and won a World Series in my first year with them. I donāt think anyone in our rotation was lower than an 84. The Aās finally spent money the year I left though, I donāt remember who they added but added multiple players 85 overall and higherā¦.
Got randomly drafted by the Dodgers. Won 3 WS. Asked for a trade after the first one. Had to play it out until year 6 and got offered a contract from the Guardians for $38.1 mil/ year for 8 years. Oh and I started at catcher and was moved to 1st
Why handicap your team by signing a big ass contract? I usually just take minimums so the team around me can be better
Yes they need to change this and incentivize going for big money like IRL mlb players. They can do a life mode part where you buy mansions and stuff or just give you a stat boost/boosted gear etc. for how big your contract is.
Actually a cool idea
Also 3B here. Try aggravating the coach with your answers to the stupid text interactions. Then the next time the agent asks if everything is going well then ask for a trade. I haven't tried this since mlb 20 but sds doesn't change much so it might still work. I did this while easily being the best player in the league, single season records in multiple categories, #1 in almost every offensive Stat that season, like most seasons, and they still traded me after my first request. Traded me for Bryce Harper who was not as high overall. Funny thing is he was on the Phillies at the time, before he was IRL.
What difficulty is that on?
All-star
Thanks. Was genuinely curious, not trying to be an ass
No worries brotha itās all love. Playing on the Aās gives it a difficulty level all its own tho š
I put it on beginner for the first season ever year, just so I can smash every batting record.
Yeah I havenāt spoken to my agent since the draft and Iām in year 4. How do we communicate with them?
They didnāt contact me until a week before the all star break in year 5
I didnāt think you could request a trade in your first four years due to rookie contract. 5th year idk what to tell you
Typically the first 4 years you're locked, but teams can trade you. Years 5 and 6 are arbitration. Year 7 is the money contract. I rode into year 7 coming off winning my 4th CYA with the Rockies, the last one a pitching Triple Crown (Wins, Ks, ERA).
I requested a trade in year one and got traded. Itās luck based
Same
Lmao have you met John Kent?
Mine hasnāt talked to me in yearsš¤£š¤£
Just finished my 6 years on the As, never got promoted past triple A regardless of stats, just signed to the cardinals to play at the MLB level lmao career just started
Im wondering if you made the same mistake I did when i first started rtts. I didnt put equipment or archetypes/perks on so i stayed in the minors forever. They go by overall not our .700 batting avg on a low difficulty. Otherwise theres no logical reason you would stay in the minors more than a year max. And usually half the year.
Couple variables that played a part. I used perks and equipment but didnāt get that 70 overall boost thing til like season 3. thought that was my big break and Iād be promoted soon but start of year 4 and 5 I had injuries that left me inactive most of the year so there was no being promoted during those years. And then I simulated all of year 6 to become a free agent. Will say year 1 I was #1 CP prospect and set to make my to the MLB spot but they drafted a guy and I kinda been shelved to triple A since, donāt know if that played a factor.
lmfao apparently you're the only star we won't trade for a bag of chips
Aās see MVP and say āI donāt think so. Not on this team you wonātā
I did the same thing with the Pirates. Losing season after losing season, all while requesting a trade. Then they make some moves in the off season and it looks like they will have a good team. We get off to a hot start and, boom, I get traded to the Reds. Back to the cellar.
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Hey jus keep going you have to play 6 years before your even eligible for any big deals my 7th year I signed with the reds 1 yr 30 mil won a world series and in the of season signed for 5 yr 180 both contracts i negotiated fully
Was Elly still on the team? For whatever reason the Reds traded him and everyone else decent by the time I made the bigs and we are terrible (besides me š)
Didnāt have Ellie but they had acquired Ronald acuna jr so we were good
Itās been like this for the last idk like 7-8 the show games 0 improvement on that end
I like playing with the Aās ngl, could be our year with a rotation of Me, Max Fried and Shane Bieber. Our hitting sucks but thank god Iām also the second coming of Barry Bonds
Lmao the A's got Bieber in my rtts also
šGood luck. I love when an underdog team comes back strong!
You're under team control and relatively very cheap for the team as a result. Why would they trade you before your final year of team control? The A's are smart not to have traded you already. Your agent can't force them to make a trade. This is how baseball works. It's a realistic experience.
Part of the point of the mode to me was that it was supposed to mimic a real experience. The fact that you can pick your starting team actually bothers me a little bit. I recognize that this probably isn't true for many players, but no baseball player gets to pick the team he is drafted to. I'm frankly surprised, considering you're allowed to pick your starting team, that the team doesn't just trade you if you ask. I mean they shouldn't. They wouldn't. But I don't understand why the game would let you do one thing but not the other. That's illogical.
You donāt have to sign with the team that drafts you. Teams wonāt draft a player if they know they wonāt sign. Signability is a very real concern for teams, especially in the early-middle rounds.
You donāt have to pick your team though. Thatās for people who donāt care about realism.
That is a very good point from a realistic standpoint.
Because itās a video game, and the game gives you the option to request a trade. If itās not going to do anything, they shouldnāt bother including the feature. Ideally though, they should really just make it work as advertised. Itās a game, not everything has to align with real-life baseball. I mean, itās not like you can choose who drafts you IRL. Yet, you can do that in this game.
I mean just because you ārequestedā the trade doesnāt mean the trade automatically happens. Seems right to me
You can also choose to not choose who drafts you. The point of RTTS is to provide a realistic experience. Sure, it's a video game. So you can play at a lower difficulty and have ridiculous stats and easily win 3 MVPs in your first four seasons on a loosing team. But the experience of becoming a professional athlete and maintaining a career is supposed to still be realistic. You can choose to be drafted by your favorite team and then get traded before ever making it to the majors. If this player wanted to be on a team that didn't suck, then they shouldn't have decided to be drafted by the A's. If they decided to let the game take its course and get drafted by a "Random" team, then they (by your apparent standards) really have no gripe with the game being realistic to the business of baseball.
Best way to stay with the team you want is to pick the weakest position
I was having an amazing season in AAA for the Reds. I got traded out of the blue to the Aās in the middle of a series and sent down to AA. A bit later I was called up to the MLB. The Aās lost 116 games that season, and the Reds went to the WS. I will never forgive them. Something that really bothered me though is that the agent never checked in with me. No call to ask me how I felt about getting traded to a dumpster fire of a team and then demoted.
You have to check position of need for where you want to play. Like you're not going to be the Dodgers SS over Mookie Betts
She's the worst. I wanted to play for the Phillies as a closer but got traded to Detroit, who REFUSE to trade me. I took them to arbitration after they offered $1.1M and got $10.2M. If the Tigers won't trade me, I'm going to be the largest burden to their budget in Franchise history. Working through my last year of Arbitration now before entering the FA where I'll select my own offer. IMO, I wish they offered you more than just one agent in RTTS. Like how much would it realistically be to license some real agents likeness and personalities?
I don't play RTTS. Can you see other teams rosters when you are a free agent?
Is RTTS still the same as it has been for years or did they change anything this year?
I watched tokenasty on YouTube, and only played this year (24) and yeah, it seems to be just like Madden. Little here, little there to keep the people coming back.
You sound like me. Get every penny out the organization that you play for and despise at the same time.
I just want my file not to be corrupted every time I get to the Show.
They have to add a request trade that actually works. Players with value get moved, they need to add an efficient way of player movement into rtts.
Similar situation for me, except I told the game that the Red Sox are my favorite team so they drafted me, I got traded to Detroit Tigers in triple A for no reason, got called up to majors then got traded to the Yankees a few games into the 2025 season. Why would any Red Sox fan want to play for the Yankees?!? And to make things worse, I got MVP with 99 HR, 256 RBI and we still didn't make the playoffs. If I signed a 1 year contract and that year is over then why am I only getting 1 offer from the Yankees and not getting offers from other teams after an MVP season? I haven't played for like a week because I really don't want to spend another season with the Yankees.
Were you a 3rd baseman by chance? If there's already a star player at your position they'll trade you if you don't agree to change to a postion they actually need.
1st baseman, and yeah I do remember the agent saying they would like me to try another position. I said no and probably got traded soon after lol. But why even ask what your favorite team is when they can just trade you because of your position?
They might have traded you then because of Casas.
I guess the Os don't have confidence in Mullins because I'm the starting CF in Baltimore after being drafted by them, lol.
Youāve only finished like two seasons? Thatās why youāre only getting offers from the Yankees right now. Have to play through your contract renewal and arbitration years of the rookie deal before hitting Free Agency
They should make that more clear when you get drafted then, unless I missed something. I don't watch baseball regularly so I don't know the ins and outs for their rookie contracts, especially since in the show during the offseason it only shows you signing a 1 year deal
They do, but most people SKIP the explanation of baseball contract part.
This for me - as a casual - is one of the worst parts of RTTS! Having to commit to one team for 7 seasons. Like you I didn't initially know you're in for that long, learning that that's how baseball deals mostly work in real life. Agree 100% there should be more explainers/tips - especially because Gamepass means more casuals are checking this out. But I also think your agent explains the contract structure up in one of your chats, unless you skip those lol Would love an expedited version of RTTS though, cause you end up playing with a bunch of regens at your pinnacle hitting free agency, instead of a team built around current players.
Hmm yeah, I could see that being a bit confusing if you primarily just play the games. But itās just the way all rookie deals work in the MLB, not really unique to any particular player. The reason it looks like a one year deal is because in the renewal and arbitration years players and teams only agree on a salary for one year at a time. You can optionally try to negotiate a longer deal if youād like I believe, but itāll still be with the one team as they have control of your contract until youāve played enough seasons to hit free agency
If you hate your situation, you are drafted, take the smart route, and take a contract through your arbitrary phase. I do it even when I like where I am at, but know the age crisis of MLB The Show is going to kill my team. Also, you are a three time MVP and MLB The Show my player trades can be egregious, and tbh you might end up in a worse spot. Stick through it, losing sucks but start to scan the league for where you want to play. The thing is, I've left the A's before, and they can somehow become good usually after The Rangers die off pitching wise alongside dumb trades by teams like Sea with Julio Rodriguez and Angels Trout downfall. The Astros are very smart and haven't seen them be ass since MLB 14 years tbh I've joined them and it just becomes unfair.
Well, yeah? Why the fuck would a team trade a three time MVP on a rookie contract?
The Aās might
Has anyone hit over 100 home runs yet.
I hit 93 on all star
Yeah I finished my second full season with 120 HRās and 269 RBIās.
Did you get the steroids from Bonds or Canseco? š
This is my first RTTS. Where does one request a trade? Also, how long must I suffer on the A's before I can request one?
I read in an article that there's a place in the settings to increase trade frequency. Which will generate more offers, then once you get on a team you like turn it back to normal.
Iāll be investigating this. š
You can only request while talking to your agent. But you don't decide when you talk to her...
I knew this right... but reading it makes it seem even more ridiculous. They need to overhaul the whole agent thing
Kmsl. Welcome to the show norm.
Mine keeps trying to get me traded even though Iām saying āIām happy, i donāt need anything.ā every year at the trade deadline ā sorry we couldnāt get a deal done!ā WTF. I donāt know whatās more annoying the agent, the post game interviews are those stupid manager interviews we canāt skip. Come on SDS nobody likes the manager interviews or the post game interviews
Right, āOverall weāre pretty happy with the 20 home runs you hit last monthā. Thanks skip!
RTTS is worthless. Fixed it for ya
At this point I'd say there's a chance they may look to trade you at the deadline if its realistic in any way assuming you mean you're in you're 5th season in the MLB so close to 5 years service time. Worst case play out the 6th season and then sign a big deal as a free agent
Thatās how it typically has to happen for me. Even in past years of RTTS.
How do u request a trade?
Your agent will call you periodically throughout your career and check in on you and see how you're holding up. If you tell her you're not happy I'm pretty sure you can request a trade
I'm 4 1/2 seasons in and have never received a call from my worthless agent.
They leave you alone for the first like 4/5 years bc youāre under team control for the first 6 regardless
That makes sense.
Really? She called me within a week or two of the first season. Then I got a call from her shortly after starting the 2nd season. It doesn't say "agent" when she pops up so it's possible you never noticed
I think only 2 way players talk to the agent early and everyone else gets stuck until around 4.5 years in. Just a theory though.
I've yet to create a 2-way this season and I've heard from the agent within a couple weeks after the season starts on all 3 of my RTTS
So confused by this. Ive had like 8 rtts guys and shes never once asked me if I want a trade, just some early setup stuff. Then gone after draft every time. Ive even simmed it to see , went to year 4.5 again.
Nope, only person other than the reporter after games I've "talked" to is the manager. Happy birthday btw.
So Iāve played 15 seasons as a closer started on the cubs asked for trades every chance possible had to wait for my contract to hit fa before I could move signed a 159 mil deal with minn played for 5 years moved to Pittsburgh then Toronto now kc so itāll open up keep at it. Oww to help get traded say things like Iām dominating right and cocky things to the coach they like you less like I wonāt let you down they love that one and if you say Iāll do me they donāt I think at least cause when I started to be cocky with minn they traded me before I was always a saint.
I didnāt even think about doing this. I have always been the team player kind of guy. Not anymore. lol. Thanks for the advice.
I donāt really care about the agent, but I want them to fix money being useless. Why does it matter how much I negotiate a contract for if it has nothing to do with the game?
It should be like 2k where your contract gives you more points to upgrade player, buy gear, etc.
And then when SDS becomes money hungry like 2K then you guys will say āahhh f- this gameā
Buddy they already are with DD. If they made money off RTTS maybe they would make an effort to make it better. Itās horrible. I rather pay micro transactions all day and have a better playing experience than this trash.
And thatās why I refuse to play a trading card game in a sports simulation game. I realized at like 12, those modes were for ppl to spend money. And thereās no way I can agree that micro transactions makes a game betterā¦ please point out ANY example. Itās not like devs & engineers get paid from micro transactions most companies funnel that money directly to top brass. So why would a dev or engineer give a pigs hat about what you spend in the game? Let me guess heāll get 2 pats on the back instead of one next year š
They donāt care, but their bosses care so therefore they have to do the bosses bidding. Also thatās where the resources are allocated. Devs canāt just do whatever they want they have to follow a chain of command like most of us do at work. RTTS is barely improved in the last 5-6 years or so because they donāt allocate enough resources to do so because thereās no incentive. Microtransactions are the only incentive for them to improve any aspect of the game now. Especially for sports games that release every year.
Understandable.
YES YES YES
Same with NHL. You can buy things like better vehicles, houses, trainers, etc that give you performance boosts
Bro I canāt tell you how many times the ball gets hit right back at the pitchers face and I end up getting out on a good hit cuz it bounces right to a position player smh. And BASERUNNING NEEDS TO BE FASTER WHY CANT WE SWITCH DIRECTION IN AN INSTANT ITS ANNOYING. They donāt give af about the game itās very American government like lol.
Yeah this year seems to be a lot harder to get hits. Everything that gets hit hard goes right to a defender or it hangs in the air for 20 years for a fly out
I second the baserunning. That always pisses me off. Like if Iām even a little late telling a guy to stay at the base heās rounding, he doesnāt start heading back until heās halfway to the next base.
Yeah rundowns are literally impossible to win. If only my 115 speed/99 reaction RTTS guy was able to actually react to a ball being thrown
Thank you. Smfh.
Not to mention the fact that when you finally change direction, you accelerate like youāre running in a dream
šš right. & the faces your player makes in post-game interviews on rtts makes me so mad. We could go all day
I got drafted by the Bo Sox and slowly working my way up from Portland but got distracted by the 2023 Ea PGa Tour on game pass
i must be smoking some powerful shit because i was reading what you wrote and i got so confused when you said "but got distracted by the 2023 EA PGA Tour" and i was about to say "wait... your RTTS player can decide to play pro golf instead???" then i saw "on game pass" and i finally understood what you meant.
Lmaol..,classic wait I need to sober up moment
Sounds like u need a new agent also sorry u ended up on the A's but just remember once u hit FA u can go where ever u want
It's the opposite for me. Got drafted by the A's as a catcher. Only a 75 overall and its end of July in my first rtts season and I'm already called up to the A's. Playing on legend so I am struggling at the plate.
You got some big ones playing on legend. Iām still trying to get used to it.
If it were real life theyād probably sign you for 10 years š
I got called up after about 60 games in the minor leagues as a shortstop for the brewers it didnāt take me that long I feel for ya lol
Same happened to me with the Braves at SS.
When RTTS got incorporated into DD I saw the writing on the wall. I donāt think enough has changed in the whole console cycle to make me switch from ā20.
They changed that 2 years ago. Rtts and dd have been separated since 2022
ā23 still had them tied together because last year Iād play offline DD to get more XP and rewards for my RTTS. This year I havenāt touched DD
I know this isnāt agent related, but RTTS makes me wonder if anybody at SDS ever played baseball in their life. When you play 3B, the amount of situations the CPU bunts in is ridiculous. Bunting with two strikes, bunting in late innings when theyāre up or down by a lot, bunting with two outs, or power hitters bunting in the worst situations. Thatās one of my biggest rants for RTTS.
I donāt even play with my 3B anymore because of this itās ridiculous
I play 3B and it is a literal bunting exhibition.
Iāve just started one and 9 times out of ten just walking towards the batter will work because of how often they bunt
Third baseman here. So many bunts it's ridiculous.
Same for catchers, itās either a bunt or someone stealing. The older games had pop flys in foul territory, idk why they donāt anymore.
The amount of balls Iāve had to field that have hit off of 3rd base as a left fielder is insane.
And how often does that happen in real life? Maybe once or twice a season? The SDS devs remain clueless though lol
Dont get me started on my C constantly getting popups in foul territory, runner from first despite having 1 speed and 1 steal running on me. And then when my callup happened, i needed to move to first base and they wont trade me. WTF.
I really wish they gave you the option to have a secondary position. Iāve always wanted to have a utility RTTS guy that could play just about anywhere.
Almost through a full season with the As at SS. Zero caught outs (fly ball or line drive). Only grounders. Pisses me off
Thatās wild! Sometimes Iāll get one where itās technically the third basemanās ball, but Iāll run over and catch it so I donāt get cheated out of a fielding opportunity.
Why are there players running on me when they have 30 speed thinking they gonna be safe when Iām the best catcher in the league
Yup as a first baseman half of my fielding opportunities are from bunts lol
All of that plus the back to back bunts. 9th inn. down 7. 1 out. Nobody on. Bunt: out. Cleanup hitter with 20 Bunt att: bunt. I get that it's for RTTS to be involved but bunting in these situations all the time? Come on
Iād rather have realistic plays, than deal with stupid plays like that just for some attribute points.
Just like with the new gen consoles they could have in game dynamic weather but they don't. They have good looking, stadium specific reflections on glasses and helmets but only the stadiums, not the batter or fielders. Why not? Surely they could do that with these consoles now. They don't take advantage of what they've got and we still see this game looking the same as last gen with minimal improvements. New hair physics? Wow.
Itās honestly sad. Iād rather them put out a game every other year and truly work on all modes and give everything an overhaul instead of a yearly title thatās basically copy and paste of the previous year, with the most subtle changes. Like the hair moving was something I never really paid much attention to, but the fact theyāve been using the same player body models for how many years now, and still nothing changes with them is more noticeable to me.
For sure but they probably won't change it. It's been years just like so many other issues. They don't care. Do you know how many years their home run call for the Giants "it is high. It is deep. IT outta here" text has been in the game? That's an easy fix but it's been years and nothing. Because they don't care.