Do the 80s mean horrible and 72 is the worst number possible?

You are looking at the wrong guy. The is a guy on the AAA team whose initials are T H (the name is Japanese I think) but he has Tommy Hanson’s real birthday and he is a decent minor league pitcher already on there.

Frenchy is a 78 if I remember correctly

The game is pretty good so far from what I have been playing, I really enjoyed the difficulty in the pitching they had last year and I’m not as enthused about not being able to switch back to it from the new one. But aside from this the game is pretty enjoyable so far. The new pitching mechanism is a bit easier to use and the physics engine is great. If they could take the gameplay from this and combine it with the presentation from MLB 09 gamesthey would have the perfect baseball game.

I don’t think they can have real minor league names because they aren’t part of the MLBPA until they reach the majors. I know 2K9 has the live roster updates like the basketball games did this past season, so stats and rosters will be updated constantly during the season.

the All-Star baseball series. ASB 99 for n64 was a GREAT game. Much, much better than the current mlb games.

It looks like i’m not the only one who is anal about having the rosters just right, so that makes me feel better. If anyone has gotten a MLB2k9 for Wii, let me know how it is, and if it is worth making the jump from 2k8, which i wasn’t all that pleased with.

I’ve always been an EA Sports MVP 2005 guy, but the community only recently stopped releasing updated rosters and photos, so I haven’t played it much in a while.

I normally go to BA’s or BP’s top-100 prospect list and take the time to edit the names of all the players that make it into the game. Last night I only found about 20 minor leaguers on the list (which is the lowest I’ve found in the last couple years), and the only one from the Braves was Shaffer. I don’t understand why Hanson wouldn’t be there when he’s, what, 22? They had Eric Hosmer, Tim Beckam, and Jarrod Parker…all 19…in the game. I guess because made they were high draft picks?

Anyway, the main reason I get the game is because my roommate and I like to do the franchise mode and fantasy draft our own teams. In this years game it appears as though the pitch location indicator doesn’t fade like it did last season, so it’s blatantly obvious where the pitch is going to be thrown when you’re playing on the same system. Sure, you still have to guess what pitch it’ll be but the first game we played last night was 12-10 cause the batters were just crushing every pitch.

Anyone know how to get rid of the stupid indicator?

In the Braves Minor League system, they don’t have Tommy Hanson, but they do have the following guys:

Greg Creek (Guy Cook)
Carl Loadenthal (Claudio Lian)
J.C. Holt (J.T. somethingerother)
Kala Ka’aihue (Karl Kapler)
Diory Hernandez (Desha Hidalgo)
Van Pope (Victor Pablo)
Javier Guzman (Jaime Gomez)
Matt Young (Mark Yan)

And that’s just with a quick perusing of the rosters.

Effin’ weird.

They will be standing under the ball and then the game won’t catch it. It usually results in an automatic triple.

Sorry if I get out of hand just trying to help with this. I found the Hanson clone in the free agent pool with the new rosters: Tim Harikkala: he is a 69 overall and born August 28, 1986. 6’ 5" yada yada. I guess when the roster update added Anderson it moved Hanson off in a spill down effect.

im not sure but i think theyre the oens who put out MLB Front Office Manager, complete garbage, Brian Roberts is a 55. The jerseys are screwed up, check out the Red Sox away jersey, its grey with blue numbers and name, instead of red.

The game atmosphere when you play is better on 2k9 but the actual graphics, gameplay and Franchise mode is so much better on The Show. I actually am just about finished with the Braves AAA and AA rosters. Im gonna do all the teams. If anyone has any interest i might be able to get them out to ya.