The G.O.A.T. Player Appreciation Post

During these quarantine times, I think most of us have been tuning in for the Michael Jordan documentary, The Last Dance. As episodes 7 and 8 aired last night, I had to make a tribute for basketball and Showdown's respective GOATs. Enjoy!

MLB SHOWDOWN 2019 SET - EXPANSION PACK *FUTURE STARS*

You thought the lack of a 2020 season at this point was going to slow down the MLB Showdown Crew? Every season we see teams calling players up throughout the season, and they don't always get a card that year due to lack of PAs. Well in my spare time I took our 2018 and 2019 sets and put the players with their current 2020 teams to get a glimpse of sorts on what a team may look like. In doing that, you see some glaring holes as some teams need some prospect help. I am also a firm believer in guys earning their chart, and while these prospects were Stars in the minors, coming up to the big leagues isn't always a guarantee to their success. Now after some slight OB adjustments to take into account they were in the minors or overseas, most of these guys will come in and make an impact for their current teams if called upon. I personally never really know much about prospects, so this was a nice learning experience for me and hopefully it will be for you as well. I also recommend printing them off and adding them to your 2019 squads for pure enjoyment of the September call ups.

Stadiums

Hey all. If you are on discord you all know me as Rekt. I was asked to write this article for this cool little project i have been working on. With a help from a bunch of you on the discord (Boshwack, Leibermaniac, Showdownfan, Savard the Goat, Kilo147 and if i missed anyone im sorry!) (also a big shoutout to Bob for making the cards)i was able to come up with the current 30 stadiums for all MLB teams. A lot of these stadiums as you will see will have iconic features such as ballpark dimensions, climate, mascots, fans, philosophies etc. They add ways for you to draft teams and build your team around your home ball park. As these have just been made, I am looking to play test and have you all play test these stadiums so we can improve them and add a little wrinkle of strategy to our future games. Also since i am not an expert on all these stadiums i could have missed some important stuff so if anyone has any cool ideas that you dont see on your favorite stadiums drop a comment and let us know what we missed. So without further ado lets take a deep dive into each stadium.

MLB Showdown 2005 Mini Set Part 3: Historical Collection

Now for the moment we have all been waiting for, the Historical Collection!!!! Now what this is, is basically a collection of some of the best seasons of a player from every team over the years. Now on this site we have seen a ton of cards made, so the goal here was to not include any of those, so I already had a tough task at hand, and in a few cases I remastered an old card to make it look more up to our current standards. Also the exciting part on top of the players, is a brand new card design. With the old pictures it is hard to find pictures for a great cutout, so using a whole photo with a tint in the background, I drew inspiration from some of the later years of showdown foils. I think these cards would look really cool printed off as foils, and I hope you enjoy the looks of the cards as much as the actual card. Now we get to take a look through the history books at some of the best seasons in Major League Baseball.

MLB Showdown 2005 Mini Set Part 2: Foils

Now that Part 1 is out of the way its time to indulge in the Superstars of the 2005 season. These guys all put together some good seasons to be determined the foils of the set. These cards are the cornerstones to your team, that you will build around to make that championship push, and all 43 of these guy would make a great impact on your team that is for sure.

MLB Showdown 2005 Mini Set Part 1: Commons

Hey everyone, Matt here and today I am introducing a project that I have been working on for about 8 months if not longer. The 2005 season Mini set, Why did I choose 2005 is a great question, and I have a few answers for that. First, it was the first season that we didn't get a new showdown set. Personally it stopped for me after 2001, but for many of you collectors you kept going all the way until the very end. My second answer would be because I really wanted to see the ridiculous card that Andruw Jones put up with his crazy stat line. But either way what I did was take the qualified hitters and pitchers from the 2005 season, which produce 356 cards. So these aren't completely full teams but there are plenty of players in this set to go crazy with. This has been such an extended project to get cutouts for all these players, and man the 2005 image quality just isn't very good for everyone, you may notice some players are a little more blurry than others and that is why. Now there are a ton of cards to be posted, so this will be broken down over a 3 post series.

Showdown Challenge #7: Tiger King

Matt here coming at you with a Showdown Challenge. I figured during these times of quarantine we need more challenges and things to occupy our time. With some of my time, I have been rolling through Netflix shows and movies like crazy, and that brings us to the challenge that I came up with today while at work, Introducing MLB Showdown Challenge: Tiger King