Power Pros Forum

Is it possible to go directly to the majors? I always get the "you still have to sign this minor league contract" speech from the scout? What's the best ending possible?

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Yeah, kind of disappointing. I didn't get it the first time I played it. I think "FOUR HOURS FOR THIS S#!T!!!!" was the phrase that was spoken at the time.

Nope, in 07 you always go to the minors. It makes sense, from college you never go straight the big leagues, you always play at least a few months in the minors.

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i concur. there have only been about 10 people to go from college to the pros, but they have. MrWelz's player Sifu would have been good enough to go from college to the pros, as would the Reggie Jackson player (All A's).

hes saying that almost always, players play in the minors for a bit before the MLB. Very rarely do you see a fresh HS/college kid straight out of the draft play in the MLB right afterwards

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There have been players to go straight to MLB in 07 and real life? just checking

Ive made some good players who always went to minors, and teams would definitely give players time to get the feel for it

Alvin went to the majors though....my stats were way freaking better than his!

here are all the players to do it:
1967: Mike Adamson, USC to Baltimore
1969: Steve Dunning, Stanford to Cleveland
1971: Burt Hooton, Texas to Chicago Cubs
1971: Rob Ellis, Michigan State to Milwaukee
1971: Pete Broberg, Dartmouth to Washington Senators
1972: Dave Roberts, Oregon to San Diego
1973: Dick Ruthven, Fresno State to Philadelphia
1973: Eddie Bane, Arizona State to Minnesota
1973: David Clyde, Westchester H.S. (Texas) to Texas
1973: Dave Winfield, Minnesota to San Diego
1978: Mike Morgan, Valley H.S. (Nevada) to Oakland
1978: Tim Conroy, Gateway H.S. (PA) to Oakland
1978: Brian Milner, Southwest H.S. (Texas) to Toronto
1978: Bob Horner, Arizona State to Atlanta
1985: Pete Incaviglia, Oklahoma State to Montreal
1988: Jim Abbott, Michigan to California Angels
1989: John Olerud, Washington State to Toronto
1993: Darren Dreifort, Wichita State to Los Angeles
1995: Ariel Prieto, Fajardo University (Cuba) to Oakland
2000: Xavier Nady, California-Berkeley U. to San Diego
That's 20 in all, but 2000 was the most recent.

Yes, I forget I read that stat a while ago, your right. I didn't realize there were that many, I thought there were ten. Still, 99.9% of the time you play in triple a before you play in the majors. In Season Mode you may (and most of the time rightly so) put your players in the Majors to start the game, but that is usually not the case in real life.

yeah, i found it in a book published last year, so i dont know about this year. i didn't hear anything about it, so I don't think there were any others. So, it hasn't happened in 8 years or so.

Wow, that was fast! Especially for an 07 thread! I read that in a book called Watching Baseball Smarter 2 years ago when I first started getting into Baseball. It was actually a really good book and I recomend it to those new to Baseball and even for stat heads, there is a lot of interesting stuff and the writer has a lot of voice. Its definetly a page-turner and you can skip the boring parts. This is the same guy who wrote the bestseller how to catch baseballs or something along those lines. He has caught over 10,000 and he gets about 3 a game (almost all of them before hand, very few were home-runs, that just takes luck). I've never read that one but I'm interested.

Besides if you made it to the majors right away what would the 08 success mode be?
Meaning I guess for 09 you'll be in the majors or it won't be a sequel.