About a week ago, Forbes announced that ‘MLB The Show 21’ could have a delayed release date when compared to years of the past.
Finally in this year’s game though, the fall affinities will be rereleased in ‘MLB The Show 20’ on November 6. As expected, the reward for getting to 240 in the team is a ‘Finest’ card. MLB The Show 20’s Twitter page has been revealing who those players are over the past few days.
Here is the representative for all 30 teams. Each card is 99 overall which is different from previous iterations of the game. Also listed are three key attributes for each player that helps make their card valuable for players that are able to collect them.
(Note: there is also a Finest choice pack that has 17 players that can be collected. The three players in the rare tier of the pack are Dinelson Lamet, Ronald Acuna Jr., and Gerrit Cole. There are 14 players in the base pack which include Jake Cronenworth, Dominic Smith, Luis Castillo, Brad Hand, Alex Verdugo, and Eloy Jimenez. All three in the rare pack are 99 overall while those in the base pack seem to all be a 97 or 98 overall.)
Arizona - Zac Gallen (SP)
Key attributes: Pitching clutch (122), stamina (108), break (97)
— MLB The Show (@MLBTheShow) November 3, 2020
Atlanta - Freddie Freeman (1B)
Key attributes: Contact vs. righties (125), discipline (125), vision (125)
— MLB The Show (@MLBTheShow) November 2, 2020