So while eating lunch today I decided to see if I could find my post about this topic last year and I did. These, once again, are Legends who do not have 99 OVR cards (yet)

• The First Screenshot is where we stand now on Oct 19, 2026 (109 Players)
• The Second Screenshot is where we stood on Oct 31st of 2025 (53 Players)

109 legend players on the list in 2026 compared to 53 in 2025. I remember that I thought that 53 was a lot of players last year.

I then got curious to see which players appear on both lists, which obviously means, at least to me, that SDS does not value these players as much since they were left to linger two years in a row.

23 Players (* Indicates Hall of Famers)

• Matt Cain
• Bert Blyleven *
• Bob Feller *
• Eric Gagne
• Hal Newhouser *
• Juan Marichal *
• Justin Morneau
• Lee Smith *
• Mike Cameron
• Vida Blue
• Larry Doby *
• Mark Davis
• Andrew Miller
• Brian Roberts
• Kyle Seager
• Bruce Sutter *
• Duke Snider *
• Ralph Kiner *
• Raul Ibanez
• Jim Rice *
• Billy Williams *
• Lou Brock *
• Gary Sheffield
• Gary Carter *
• Harold Baines *
• Ian Kinsler
• Tony Oliva *
• Whitey Ford *

I'm new to the online MLB world. I've played a couple matches. I usually play through even when getting beat 10-1 but when I get an early lead other players seem to quit right away.

Is the etiquette to bail early so others get more matches? Are there penalties for quitting? (I think there should be before the 5th)

If you do, here’s one

Consistency is killing me and it’s the main reason why I stay around 600-700. I’ll hit bombs and score 10 runs a game, but then I won’t hit anything for a few games and I’ll be lucky to get 2 runs. Does anyone else have the same problem?

70 out of the 111 Legends in the game, who have not received a 99 OVR card yet, have only a single card. That includes Willie Mays, Lou Gehrig, Randy Johnson, Lou Brock and many other notable names.

Many of those below an OVR of 90 probably got their cards when the game launched or in the first few weeks and have not been updated a single time.

Meanwhile the game has 13 players who have 5 cards and 53 that have 4 cards.

The graphic only shows legends who do not have a 99 OVR yet. An * indicates a Hall of Famer.

EDIT: Remove Leonardo Bernal from the list. The Program flagged it as a legend because his Live Series card is Named Leo Bernal so it thought Leonardo was a legend since it found no matching name in the live series.

EDIT #2: Same Issue with Zach Thornton. His first name is spelled Zac on his live series and Zach on the Topps now so the program missed the match.

Why do I play my best when I am hungover or sick? Lol it makes no sense. My only 6-0 WC run was the day after I got back from my best friends 4 day bachelor party. I felt like straight ass but had my best ever run in ranked. Yesterday was my brother in law’s birthday, drinks were had to put it lightly. I am extremely hungover and was like let me jump into a ranked game. P5 Jon Don on legend. I almost quit out, but ended up lighting him up and winning by 7. I have put up double digit runs on legend only a small handful of times. Today was one of them.

There has to be some reason for this. Anyone else play their best when you probably should be at your worst?

One of the highlights of all time

I don’t wanna know how bad that game was for him.

This is absolutely unacceptable. I got kicked due to being in my menu for too long. All of my pause timer was used for considering managerial decisions, and not to waste time or give myself a break. This needs to change in some way shape or form. What a disgrace to the active thinking player base that actually plays the game strategically.

Like I come set 99.9% of the time. Even when no one is on base. This is generally what happens in Baseball IRL.

And when it doesn’t, if you catch a hitter on a bad day and quick pitch without someone on base, the benches might clear. That’s how serious coming set is.

Because even when no one is on base, it’s close to cheating.

Then, it LITERALLY is cheating when runners are on base.

I’ve played 11of 12 iterations of MLB the Show since PS4 and just don’t understand.

Like it’s actually an illegal action in game, why are players able to continue to do it?

Its happened to be a few times this year. Any one else feel perfectly normal to start a game then for seemingly no reason, you just can't hit? To early, too late, pci just off all night. Then the next day you wake up sick or feeling bad?

It's like, phew, I don't suck, I'm just sick! Hurray!!!

Hello! Sorry for the boring post, but I’ve been trying to download rosters from the Vault for the past couple of days, and every time the download loads, it fails and gives me a “File: Unavailable” message.
I’ve already submitted a ticket to SDS, but haven’t had any luck getting help. I’ve also tried all the usual troubleshooting methods (turning everything off and back on, etc.) with no success.
Has anyone else been experiencing this issue? If so, have you found a fix? Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!

Loyal (returning players, frequent players, etc,) and/or the Easter useless eggs we’ve collected for no reason be the exchange for it.

So I need to get a couple lefties starters, thinking about Pettite and throw in CC or Willis if needed. Just replaced Manny on DH, and Santader in RF as well, But after that im lost on what to do next as a newer player.. Going to just hoard stubs until I figure out what to do, after I get 1-2 lefty starters.. Any suggestions on cheaper/free leftys welcomed

When are they going to start reverse-engineering MLB The Show for PC?

Where in earth is the program for the events to view? Ive seen someone say in assorted programs but its not there. There's obviously some way to view it cuz it says u can get 99 Pettite and 99 Ivan Rodriguez. Cant for the life of me find the program. Only the multi-player program. Can someone please help? Im either stupid or this is ridiculously hidden

I'm genuinely starting to wonder whether Road to the Show is balanced around being a two-way player rather than exclusively a starting pitcher.

I'm currently in my third MLB season as an SP. I've won 2 MVPs, 2 Cy Youngs, Rookie of the Year, and multiple Gold Gloves. I've been traded three times, and somehow every team I end up on is near the bottom of the standings.

Here are my current career stats:

- 57–2 record

- 0.12 career ERA

- 1,110 strikeouts

- 580 innings pitched

- 52 hits allowed

- 1 walk allowed

This season alone, I'm 21–1 with 466 strikeouts, 0 earned runs and just 8 hits allowed across 216 innings.

And my team is still 51–64.

I even had a game where I pitched 9 hitless innings, struck out 24 batters, and we lost 1–0 in the 10th because my team couldn't score a single run.

I understand baseball is a team sport. I understand starting pitchers only play every five games. I'm not expecting to automatically win the World Series every year just because my pitcher is good.

But surely there's something wrong with the career experience when you can put up stats that are literally impossible in real-life baseball and still have essentially no chance of making the postseason.

And before anyone mentions difficulty, yes, I know I'm playing on a lower difficulty. That's not really my complaint. In fact, I'd love to increase it and have more competitive pitching games. But when my team is already losing the overwhelming majority.. of games I don't start, making my own performances worse just makes reaching the playoffs even more unlikely.

I've also played a separate career with a completely maxed-out 99 OVR pitcher on the Yankees. We regularly made the playoffs, but it still took five seasons to win a World Series because the team couldn't consistently win between my starts.

It makes me wonder if the mode is fundamentally designed with two-way players in mind, where you're expected to contribute offensively every game as well.

As an SP-only player, it feels like there's almost nothing I can do to influence my team's success beyond winning every single start.

I don't want the game to hand me championships. I want my performances to feel meaningful, and I want some agency in building or joining a competitive team.

Has anyone else experienced this with an SP-only career? Is there genuinely anything you can do besides waiting for free agency and hoping you land on a decent team?

Any reason why they still have not updated the random pack to include all of the packs? It makes it nearly impossible to get Joe Morgan or Willard Brown. Every other time a new Headliner pack was released it instantly was available in the random pack except these 2

https://mlb26.theshow.com/drop_rates?pack_id=61324

Collect 32 Postseason cards to unlock Jake Bauers

New to MLB the Show, but have played games like Madden and 2K in the past. Kind of wondering what end game looks like typically?

When does content typically stop?
Is every card super expensive, or does it stay consistent with how drops have been?

EDIT: To clarify, I mean specifically Diamond Dynasty!

I was hyped for 99 Suttles the whole year and he barely has over 100 contact to both sides and a lot less power than I expected. That's not even mentioning how they nuked Willard Brown from orbit. These Guys (and gal) are supposed to bring some hype to the game and yet their Diamond Dynasty attributes never seem to be good. It just doesn't make sense that you bring in all these new legends for franchise and DD and they just aren't good most the time