Barry Bonds (San Francisco Giants) Todd Helton (Colorado Rockies) Greg Vaughn (Tampa Bay Devil Rays) Chipper Jones 3B (Atlanta Braves). Nov 15, 2017 If Barry Bonds and Sammy Sosa are on the same team they both lose a lot on their ratings. When Ernie and Kimmy play at their home fields (Steele Stadium and Eckman Acres), Ernie's batting goes up to 9 and his running increases by 1. Kimmy improves pretty significantly in all categories.
Background
Backyard Baseball, the series combining playground atmosphere along with real players and teams, continues on computer platforms with the release of Backyard Baseball 2004. The twist is that the 'real' players in the game appear as children along with the rest of the sandlot lineup. Featured pros include Sammy Sosa, Randy Johnson, Mike Piazza, Shawn Green, Barry Bonds, Ichiro Suzuki, Pedro Martinez, Alex Rodriguez, Derek Jeter and more. They'll compete along with 30 Backyard Kids, a combination of girls and boys, in the following three modes of play: Single Game, Season Play, and Batting Practice.
Gameplay
Single Game has players selecting two teams from a pool of 40, adjusting options such as difficulty level, game length, home field, and whether or not to include power-ups. More than ten fields are available, from a beach and parking lot to a swampland and junkyard. No matter which team is selected, players must pick and choose members in true playground fashion. Each character is rated from one to ten in the following areas: power, contact, pitching, running, and defense. Players can also create their own child prodigy by selecting hair color, skin, body type, accessories, and more before assigning a certain number of skill points.
Created players are used in Season Mode, where they earn experience points used to increase their attributes. Each Backyard Baseball season spans 18 or 32 games, with individual and team statistics tracked and saved to the hard drive. Batting Practice is designed to help players familiarize themselves with the hitting interface as they take their cracks at various pitch types. No matter which mode is selected, players use a cursor-based system for both pitching and hitting. Four available pitch types include a fastball, curve, screwball, and change-up, while hit types consist of power, line drive, grounder, and bunt. Fictional characters Sunny Day and Abner Dubbleplay provide the play-by-play and color commentary, respectively.
Features
- An all-star MLB lineup: Alfonso Soriano, Nomar Garciaparra, Alex Rodriguez, Barry Bonds, Carlos Delgado, Ichiro, Dontrelle Willis, Sammy Sosa, Albert Pujols and Eric Gagne
- Additional bonus pros to unlock: Derek Jeter, Pedro Martinez, Randy Johnson, Shawn Green, Mike Piazza, Greg Maddux and Jim Thome Vibrant 3D visuals: players, game action and environments
- An updated game engine and all-new code, creating a fresh, 'built from the ground up' Backyard Baseball
- All 30 MLB team logos
- Thirty Backyard Kids, as well as original Backyard team names and logos
- Loads of crazy power-ups
- Customizable players
- Quick, single games as well as Season Play action
- Choice of players, fields and game details
- A Home Run Derby mini-game
- Full stats and standings in Season Play
Hardware Requirements
- Operating System: Windows 98/Me/2000/XP
- Processor: Pentium III 500MHz
- Memory: 64 MB RAM (128 MB for Windows 2000/XP)
- Hard Disk Space: 600 MB Free
- CD-ROM Drive: 8X Speed
- Video: 8 MB Windows 98/2000/Me/XP-compatible SVGA video card
- Sound: Windows 98/2000/Me/XP-compatible sound card
- DirectX: DirectX version 9.0 (included) or higher
Best MLB players in Backyard Baseball 2001
In the previous post I showed you the rosters and set it up: Backyard kids vs. pros
Now here is the decision about the pro team… we have 31 potential players (more than an active roster) so let’s start with the easy cuts and an explanation:
Alex Gonzales: I feel bad doing this just the day before his birthday! With a 5 batting ranking and a 6 fielding ranking we have much better options. He does bring some speed but that isn’t redeeming enough.
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Carlos Beltran: Hey, he’s still playing and collecting money! His batting stat of 5 isn’t high enough. He’s well-rounded but in this case we need specialists
Jeromy Burnitz and Marty Cardova: They were in this game! I had no idea… anyway they won’t be in this game.
Now we need to think about pitching.
It really comes down to three people: Curt Shilling, Randy Johnson and … SURPRISE Frank Thomas!
Each one has a 10 rating in pitching. For a game like this you want at least two pitchers so Frank Thomas makes the roster with his 7 batting and since Curt has a 8 fielding, 6 running and 5 batting (compared to Randy’s 3, 5, 5) we will keep Curt and cut the Big Unit.
On the team: Curt Shilling, Frank Thomas
I want our pitchers to be our worst hitters so anybody with a batting rating of 7 or lower is out: Barry Larkin, Ivan Rodriguez (NO, not Pudge!), Jason Giambi, Jason Kendall, Jeff Bagwell, and Kenny Lofton (A surprise considering I normally had him on my team)
That leaves 18 players left for 7 spots. We need to start making big cuts, so anybody with a fielding ranking of less than 5 has got to go: Jose Canseco and Shawn Green… wait that can’t be right! You mean that Mark McGuire and Mo Vaughn were good fielders? Nope, they are cut. I’m also cutting Valdimir Guerrerro since he was with the Expos.
13 players for 7 slots!
Since we have been focusing on hitting let’s take everyone with a 10 batting ranking: Mark McGuire and Sammy Sosa.
Hmm: You mean Barry Bonds didn’t get a 10? Must have calculated these things before the ‘roids but he and Ken Griffey Jr. should be in
Since we now have a surplus of outfielders let’s cut a bunch from the list: Juan Gonzales, Larry Walker, Raul Monesi and Tony Gwynn (underrated in this game)
Backyard Baseball Barry Bonds 2017
3 slots for 5 players and it comes down to the infield. I’ll eliminate Alex Rodriguez since he only has a 7 batting rating (9 fielding but we have some guys with 10 fielding). I’ll eliminate Chipper Jones since I want a strong infield in fielding and he is an 8 (others are 10s).
So the list of players:
Frank Thomas
Curt Shilling
Mark McGuire
Sammy Sosa.
Barry Bonds
Ken Griffey Jr.
Cal Ripken Jr.
Derek Jeter
Nomar Garciapparra
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So let’s deal with positions: I’m going to have Shilling start on the mound since his in-game experience should help him last awhile (Frank Thomas can come in for relief and we would move Curt to the outfield). I want Big Mac at first (position he has experience with) and Griffey at center (best fielding OF we have). I’ll put Bonds in Left and Sosa in right.
We have a big problem at catcher… since we cut Pudge (NO! Why did we do that?) we don’t have a good catcher. Luckily since we are playing with Backyard baseball rules we don’t have to worry much about catching so we will put Frank Thomas behind the plate.
Backyard Baseball Barry Bonds Value
For the infield: I always worry about Nomar’s arm so he will be at second, Cal played a lot of third so he will go there and Jeter will be at short.
Batting order:
Barry Bonds LF: with a 10 running rating he is our best option to lead off
Derek Jeter SS: 9 running and 8 batting with experience hitting out of the two hole
Sammy Sosa RF: Bringing the power
Mark McGuire 1B: Bringing the pain
Frank Thomas C: This is the slow part of the lineup, I don’t want really fast people to be hampered by the Big Hurt and Big Mac
Curt Shilling P: I don’t always think it’s a good idea to bat the pitcher 9, I would rather have guys on base for the top of the order
Ken Griffey Jr. CF: This is almost like a second lead-off spot and I trust that Ken can handle this
Nomar Garciapparra 2B: I think hitting behind Ken will be good and Nomah will be able to move him over
Cal Ripken Jr. (3B): I don’t think Cal will be disappointed with this ranking, he might have the smallest ego on this team and so he’ll bat last
Here is the post about the Backyard team