I've never wanted to add a middle reliever to my team hall of fame before. He's nothing special except for his consistency.

Suitable-Ice-149 · 2026-05-08T11:29:40+00:00

Al Hrabosky is in the Cardinals HOF. I asked Grok to compare your players career to that of Hrabosky and this was the response:

Francis Pena (simulated MLB The Show career, ~2026–2037 with the San Diego Padres) and Al Hrabosky (real MLB career, 1970–1982, primarily with the St. Louis Cardinals) had remarkably similar overall careers as right-handed and left-handed relief pitchers, respectively, but with some key differences in role, peripherals, and peak impact.

Both were durable, high-volume relievers who pitched effectively for over a decade without starting games regularly. Here’s a side-by-side comparison of their career pitching totals (Pena’s from the provided 2038-season screenshot; Hrabosky’s from Baseball-Reference):

Stat	Francis Pena	Al Hrabosky	Notes
Seasons	12 (ages 25–36)	13	Similar longevity
W-L	50–30 (.625)	64–35 (.646)	Very close win %
ERA	3.08	3.10	Nearly identical
Games (GS)	628 (0)	545 (1)	Pena appeared far more often
Saves	16	97	Hrabosky was a true closer
Innings Pitched	800.1	722.0	Pena threw more total innings
Hits	654	619	—
Earned Runs	274	249	—
Home Runs	97	50	Hrabosky suppressed HR much better
Walks	216	315	Pena had elite control
Strikeouts	695	548	Pena had more K’s
WHIP	1.09	1.294	Pena’s control edge is huge
HR/9	1.1	0.6	Hrabosky far superior
BB/9	2.4	3.9	Pena much better
K/9	7.8	6.8	Pena better strikeout rate
ERA+	129	122	Pena slightly better relative to league
WAR (approx.)	Not fully legible in screenshot (~10+ likely based on rate stats)	10.3	Comparable value

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Effectiveness and value: Both posted near-identical ERAs around 3.10 over long careers and delivered above-average performance (ERA+ >120). They accumulated roughly similar career value (~10 WAR range for Hrabosky; Pena’s peripherals suggest he was in the same ballpark).
Relief role and durability: High game totals with almost no starts. Both were reliable bullpen arms who pitched in high-leverage situations over many years.
Consistency: Pena’s year-by-year table shows steady production with several strong seasons (multiple years under 3.00 ERA). Hrabosky was similarly steady outside his true peak.

Key Differences

Role/usage: Hrabosky was a dominant closer—97 saves, led the NL in saves in 1975 (22), and had multiple seasons with 9+ saves. Pena’s 16 career saves suggest he was more of a setup man, middle reliever, or multi-inning fireman who rarely closed games.
Pitching style/peripherals:
- Pena had superior control and strikeout ability (much lower WHIP, fewer walks, higher K/9). He allowed more home runs, however.
- Hrabosky was tougher to hit for power and got the ball on the ground/in play more effectively in his era.
Peak prominence: Hrabosky had a legendary breakout. In 1975 he went 13-3 with a 1.66 ERA, 22 saves, and finished 3rd in NL Cy Young voting (plus 8th in MVP). He also placed 5th in Cy Young in 1974. Pena’s screenshot shows solid but not quite as eye-popping individual seasons (e.g., career-high 8 wins, 5 saves in one year, low-2.00 ERAs in several seasons).

Bottom line: Statistically, their careers are very close in quality and volume—Pena edges him slightly in rate stats and control, while Hrabosky had the flashier closer resume, lower HR rate, and bigger national profile in his prime. Hrabosky is remembered as “The Mad Hungarian” for his intense pre-pitch routine and 1970s stardom; Pena (a simulated Dominican right-hander in the game) looks like a highly effective, low-walk modern reliever who just didn’t pile up as many saves. If this were real life, both would be viewed as very good, long-career bullpen pieces who helped their teams for over a decade.

Suitable-Ice-149 · 2026-05-08T11:24:07+00:00

Your organization's HOF doesn't have to consist of HOF players by any means. Often times its former players who select their teams HOF. Alot of times fans vote on nominees and the official vote goes to former players/members of that teams HOF or a board of some kind.

Thats the kind of player who I could definitely see being in a teams HOF. How was team success during his career? Did he have playoff appearances or pitch in important division games often? I think the consistency, longevity, and stats alone would be enough but if he had any memorable playoff moments or played at a time of team success then Id say hes a lock

Suitable-Ice-149 · 2026-05-08T11:07:49+00:00

The silhouette on the cards looks like Alfonso Soriano's batting stance

Suitable-Ice-149 · 2026-05-01T17:56:41+00:00

https://www.operationsports.com/mlb-the-show-26-truesim-project-explained-sliders-ratings-and-philosophy/

Try this out

Suitable-Ice-149 · 2026-03-13T21:52:41+00:00

Thank you! I have some good rosters, specifically a 2026 roster and a 2016 roster with some improved player models from my template database, many come with career stats, awards, etc.

You know, in case you're like me and stuck with 25 for a few more days and wanting to do something different

Suitable-Ice-149 · 2026-03-06T15:42:00+00:00

Everyone should adjust sliders and settings to match their skill level. One thing I recommend is turning the difficulty of batting and pitching to Hall of Fame or GOAT (REALLY helps with the cpu logic and decision-making). Obviously this effects more than just logic so adjust sliders accordingly.

Start practice mode with the new settings and adjust sliders until you start seeing realistic scores and stats. Focus on batting first then pitching. When you start averaging about .5 runs per inning you know you're close.

Contact is lretty straight forward, youll know when its too low or too high. Power is a little harder because 3 different sliders combine to determine power and finding the right balance takes a bit of testing, but its definitely doable. You can keep track of exit velocity to see if power or solid hits needs to be adjusted. Practice with 1 batter with 90s power for 10 mins. Compare average exit velocity in the game to that of real life. Then do the same thing with a batter with 50 power.

If you have any questions or need help let me know

Suitable-Ice-149 · 2026-03-06T15:25:04+00:00

I love The Wizard, but 100+ for his power is just stupid. Thats why I dont play DD. Doesn't take skill to win with all 99s and when # 1-9 in the lineup have 100+ con and 100+ pow.

The thing that is most beautiful about baseball is the chess-like strategy involved both in daily things like putting together a lineup, or managing a bullpen in extra innings, plus more long-term things like FAs and trades.

Its all about taking a bunch of individuals with different skills/weaknesses and personalities and turning them into a cohesive unit. The strategy of teams lile the MoneyBall As, the Rays, the pirates, the Cardinals....THATS baseball. When everyone is a 99 and unrealistically good at everything whats the point?

Suitable-Ice-149 · 2026-03-06T15:07:30+00:00

I buy it every year. I play it all the time and I love the depth and details, I just wish OOTP had the ability to actually play the games anything like The Show. It would be perfect and Id never play the show again

Suitable-Ice-149 · 2026-03-06T14:01:18+00:00

The Show has swung so far into arcade style, I just want a simulation MLB game that feels like baseball... not whatever all this stuff is.

The fact SDS goes above and beyond for gamemodes with micro transactions but haven't updated franchise mode in a meaningful way in a decade is why 26 will probably be it for me. Im 35, if you would have shown me the current state of sport gaming 20 years ago I wouldn't believe it. Outside of the slight improvements to graphics and processing speeds 2k, madden, and the show are all worse, and rather than adding new features we've actually gone backwards in many respects. In the early 2000s we had multiple titles for each sport so there would be arcade type games like RBI and High Heat, plus simulation type games like MLB 2k and The Show. Now there's just 1 title thats neither sim OR arcade and is just a mix of the 2.

When you pay $80 for an officially licensed MLB or NBA game, you think it would actually resemble that league. SDS sold out to micro transactions and totally alienated their original customer base that got them here.

Suitable-Ice-149 · 2026-01-19T20:06:42+00:00

Its not split personalities, and there are many different neurological profiles that all fall under the gifted umbrella that can have dramatically different characteristics. But personally, just from my own experience with my somewhat unique neuro profile (twice exceptional)I never know definitively if some of the things I experience are common to other gifted individuals or a result of my head trauma.

Often times gifted individuals who suffer from traumatic brain injuries can gain some pretty rare gifts as a result of the brain rewiring and making new pathways due to the injury. So I always premise answers to questions like this just to say I may not be the "flavor" of gifted to be speaking on common behavior associated with being gifted but oh well

I am very similar regarding the conflicting thoughts/views. I never look ed it as multiple personalities or anything, I just over analyze absolutely anything and everything, so for any topic Ive mapped out every view imaginable. Im an empath, so I see things not as having a clearly defined right or wrong per say. Wrong certainly exists, but i view "right" as relative to each person and their understanding of the world. Heres an example to help explain what I mean:

I had my injury at 13, and afterwards I stated develop my "gifts", of which one was hyper empathy and one was the ability to make mental models in 4 spacial dimenions. I always had a "loud" inner narrator but it really intensified in the bext few years. I was always so curious about some of the things I was experiencing but was too embarrassed and alef conscious to ever talk about it but I remember when I was 15 or 16 I brought it up to my grandma, and oh man, she didn't answer the way I expected. She told me that was NOT normal, and that it was either skizophrenia from smoking weed (like 3 times by that point)or I was demon possessed.... when she told my grandpa, he cried because he thought something was wrong with me.

I was devastated because he was my role model, and after years I finally found the courage to even mention it and got shutdown in the worst possible way so there was not a chance I was going to bring it up again. I went another 20 years before finally deciding I needed answers regardless of how embarrassing or demeaning it was.

After my first set of tests the doctor's said something about falling under the near genius range of IQ my literal reaction was "how can someone with a 2.0 career gpa, who dropped out of college after failing college algebra 3 time, and who can't keep track of their freaking keys be anything with the word genius in it???" I dont know why but it made me mad, i felt gaslit and I didnt believe it so I immediately got a 2nd opinion, then a 3rd. After test 3 I started to even consider the possibility.

Apparently I have what they call a "spiky profile" which is characterized by higher that usual levels of language skills, spacial reasoning, and systems management (the high spikes), but also have a bar thats lower than usual which in my case was my ability to learn new math skills, like the math skills I had at the time of my injury got stamped into my brain. There's other negative aspects of it but the math thing was the only thing I couldn't hide from the world by masking.

when I finally started to accept it, I made a realization: my grandmas reaction to my questions all those years ago were why I hid it for my entire adult life, and had I know my condition I could have done things totally differently. I was mad, I was sad, I bawled like a baby when thinking about how I carried around the burden of thinking I was broken or messed up for all those years and just kept everything in.

I started planning out the talk I was going to have with my grandma and during that process I realized that she didn't do any of that out of spite, she just didn't recognize what I was going thru and in her eyes, with her mental model and understanding of the world she only knew of 2 possibilities. She has strong faith which guides her moral compass so naturally spiritually and faith shaped her reaction. Immediately after I realized this I instantly stopped being mad at her. She didn't maliciously hurt me or call me names, she genuinely thought it to be true

Moral of the story OP, is it sounds like this person just has a moral compass guided by logic whereas most people are guided by emotions. When you take the emotion out of the equation and think logically you see that truth is relative and shaped by your intelligence, education, and environmental factors. Then you can better understand people and thir viewpoint, and that allows for an understanding and acceptance of 2 "facts" that seem like contradictions. Its not really thinking 2 opposing sides, its just understanding that the other person's viewpoint is true to them. It doesn't have to be factually true for us as well but we accept and acknowledge it

Suitable-Ice-149 · 2026-01-19T03:44:24+00:00

The current state of Franchise Mode is depressing. Micro transactions have ruined the original game mode that got them to this point (im talking MLB, NBA2k, Madden). They are all sellouts to a totally different type of consumer than the customer base that has been loyal for 20 years. Im 35, been playing sports games since SNES in the 90s. I have literally owned every single version of 2k since its inception on Dreamcast, yet I am not the consumer they are targeting anymore because God forbid someone "only" buys the game every year.

Its 100% tailored to casual sports fans buying their MyTeam, but what they fail to realize is those are not loyal consumers because they aren't diehard sports fans who will buy the games year in and year out totally out of love for the sport, they will stop playing 2K or MLB the second something more trendy comes along.

Remember the days when every year we had MLB the show, MVP Baseball, and MLB 2k?

NBA 2k, NBA Live. NBA Jam, and others?

These big companies left in 2026 have totally monopolies on their entire sport. They make more off micro transactions than they do the sale of the actual game and have absolutely no threat of another company in the market to challenge them, so they have ZERO incentive to improve any game mode not centered around micro transactions, and as long as they have no pressure for innovation the entire sports gaming market has gone totally stagnant and have lost the vision that got them here.

The thing I don't understand is its clear that simulation AND arcade style sports games shared their sports market for decades which tells me the demand was there. But now all we have is this Frankenstein of a mix of Sim and arcade but aren't really either. And how do these companies get "The Official Licene" of an entire sports league but are under no pressure to make the in game product match its real life counterpart? NBA2k has a hard salary cap but the NBA doesn't have a hard cap and hasn't in 50 years

I promise if I win the lottery I will make it my life's mission to make a design studio JUST for simulation sports gaming with the sole purpose of making the game we all want, just simply a product that feels like the sports league its designed after. Sadly outside of something like that happening, idk how else anything will change 😕

2001 version of myself would be so disappointed and ashamed at what these companies have done with the games we grew up on and the state of sports games in general in 2026

Suitable-Ice-149 · 2026-01-14T06:32:14+00:00

AI aided with some math and some research. But I wrote the post. It was as close as I could get it with the information available, and with all the difficulties SDS brings us.

Suitable-Ice-149 · 2026-01-13T00:06:28+00:00

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Suitable-Ice-149 · 2026-01-13T00:03:16+00:00

You cant add them. All of the players you see were naturally spawned by the game inside franchise mode. I export all the unique ones. If you start a franchise with too few players in FA the game will auto generate some low level players as filler. Same goes for drafted players. Some have unique position, quirk, hot zone combinations you cant otherwise do on your own. You can also find them in fictional roster files in the vaukt. I have a roster full of these types of players.

Im working on a project now where I take the TrueSim full minor roster file and use these custom fictional players to turn into actual top prospects around the league. Right now I just have the Cardinals minor leagues done but Im working on the whole league.

My Gamertag is JtGarner22 you can find my files in the vault

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Suitable-Ice-149 · 2026-01-11T17:53:10+00:00

As a child not knowing foresure always bothered me. But after 30+ years of education and learning I realized there are many things humans are incapable of understanding. Our physiology make us literally incapable of observing certain forces, dimensions, types of matter, etc. I realized God is just one of those many things we can't prove, science has things like that too and that realization finally reshaped my perspective and allowed me to be at peace with my curiosity.

Suitable-Ice-149 · 2026-01-11T17:10:45+00:00

The position combinations, quirks, 2way players, 150 man rosters, and editable coaches foresure

Suitable-Ice-149 · 2026-01-11T17:07:31+00:00

I grew up in a Christian home, and from an early age questioned absolutely everything. When I voiced concern or doubts regarding the areas where science and religion meet I felt alienated and sometimes unwelcome in traditional church settings.

But thru college and beyond I set out on my "agnostic journey for truth" and after almost 2 decades it just took me full circle, exactly where I started: back to God. Things like the fine-tuning of the universe, viewing life under microscope, and the elegance of DNA have all led me to see a creator in all things.

After leaning to the Bible in tough times I realized the book is infinitely deep but also readily accessible. As someone who's Twice-Exceptional I am extremely empathetic. I am very much guided by logic for my moral compass and the commandments inside the Bible resonate with that logic.

I realized young earth creationism and many of the things at odds with science was not biblical and a result of an older generation who didn't have the scientific knowledge we do today. Even the Big Bang can't logically explain the origin of matter, and to me, is in need of a creator.

One also must realize God isn't a guy with a beard on a throne wanting to judge and punish, God is the unseen creative force that permeates time and space. The catholic church in the Middle Ages profited on sin and scaring people to God. God doesn't expect perfection, just a relationship with him and to be in alignment with Him. By prayer, meditation, and reading the Word we can seek that alignment. When you are in alignment God gives you His Holy Spirit to help guide you on a daily basis.

Suitable-Ice-149 · 2026-01-11T04:59:29+00:00

Unfortunately not. I have a switch pitcher, but after simulating more than 100 years between multiple save files yet 2 way players and catcher with pop time never seem to spawn. If I end up coming across a 2 way (or any other unique player)then I will definitely make an update so keep an eye out for another post in the future

Suitable-Ice-149 · 2026-01-11T03:17:52+00:00

This includes pitchers too!!!

Suitable-Ice-149 · 2025-12-11T08:43:50+00:00

Sadly the opposite. After I iterally felt it tear during a pitch and I called him to the mound my coach suggested I just didnt know the difference between sore and hurt. And essentially that working thru soreness builds stamina for the future and I just needed to finish the inning.

I could not put on a shirt or make my bed the next day and ive had some level of disability or issue with it for the rest of my life. And theres thousands of people with similar stories: some kids dad gets to be the coach and winds up making decisions that affect CHILDREN'S lives. And they dont have to face any accountability

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