MLB The Show 23 Trade Discussion - Grade Your Trades

I love when the OS community comes up with a great idea and then keeps it going year after year. Traditions take hold, and one of the yearly MLB The Show traditions is now back with the MLB The Show 23 franchise mode trade discussion thread. This thread is a place where you can go to talk through your potential trades and get the OS crew to give you feedback on how realistic the trade feels. Beyond that, you can keep even ask for general trade ideas for your team if you’re not quite sure what direction to go.

I’ll hand it over to OS user Bard to explain things a bit more thoroughly, but just know I highly recommend scoping out this thread if you want to add a little extra sauce to your franchise playthrough.

MLB The Show 23 Trade Discussion

Here is Bard with the intro and explanation:

We are back with another year of Trade Discussion on the forum! Who is ready for some wild proposals? Who is ready to have some civil arguments? I know I am! Remember, people are on here spending their free time to give feedback on trades, lets remain respectful.

This is a good tool to use when trying to evaluate trades. You can use it to see the availability of certain players and their trade value. Now this will only work for trades for the 2023 season and maybe 2024/2025 seasons to a lesser extent. Feel free to use it to help with your trade ideas.

I LOVE who made the post last year below, so here we go…

Things to consider mentioning in your post:

• Context to the situation – What are the team records? How is their prospect development at the position in question? What are the finances of the player and the team? How is the player doing statistically? Are there any injury circumstances? The more specific you could be the better, especially when it comes to fictional trades and trades 5+ years in the future.
• Ratings – Make sure to explain the ratings and potentials. Maybe in your franchise someone has significantly higher ratings or potential than in other people’s franchise. Maybe it’s a fictional player or maybe you adjusted ratings in your franchise on your own. No matter what, this is valuable information. What is their overall and potential?
• Fair & realistic – Are you looking for one or the other, or both? This will help people when they give feedback to you. You can use the trade simulator tool to post a screenshot or something to help illustrate your trade.
• Layout – If you layout your trade or what you are looking for in an organized manner, it will help. Here is how I layout trades when I look for feedback. You do not have to use this, and feel free to do it however you want, but remember that organization helps.

For example:

Padres Receive:

• SP Player A (MLB) 90 Overall – A Potential
• 1B Player B (MLB) 85 Overall – A Potential

Red Sox Receive:

• SS Player A (A) 60 Overall – A Potential
• OF Player B (AAA) 70 overall – B Potential

Happy trading!