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The 11th and final Inning program for Diamond Dynasty in MLB The Show 25 takes a look back at the content from the year that was.
11th Inning Program Overview
The end of November is almost here, and in MLB The Show 25's Diamond Dynasty, that means a feast of reheated content in the form of the 11th Inning program -- the last of its kind in Diamond Dynasty for the game cycle.
Unfortunately for anyone who has been playing DD all year, that means this Inning is eminently skippable: It has no new Boss players, and thus won't be adding much to teams that were created in March and have been curated for months. Fortunately for anyone picking up the game during a Black Friday sale, there are packs for each of the 1st through 10th Innings on the XP reward path, allowing those players access to cards that would have otherwise requires significant Stubs to obtain from the marketplace. (And as a nice gesture for the players who do have those Inning Bosses, each of the packs for the 1st through 9th Innings contain vouchers for 25,000 Stubs, with the 10th Inning pack having one for 40,000, meaning that there's a bit more than a quarter-million Stubs available to players that do not want or need the Bosses.)
Beyond that, the big draw of the 11th Inning XP path is that it contains nine Now & Later packs that are awarded both in MLB The Show 25 and MLB The Show 26. Just nine is not exactly richly generous work from San Diego Studio, but it is something of a foundation for players intending to play DD next year.
More relevant to the dying days of this season's DD are the smattering of 85+ and 88+ Live Series packs in the reward path and its post-path random rewards. With two of the former and one of the latter on the path and the 88+ pack in the "spin the wheel" pool, there are decent shots at the still exorbitantly priced high-OVR Diamonds -- Shohei Ohtani and Aaron Judge chief among them -- that are barriers to entry to completing the Live Series collection and finally obtaining the only Carlos Beltrán available in DD.
The 11th Inning program essentially does not expire -- it runs for 4,422 days, or until December 30th, 2037 -- and has rewards up to 340,000 Inning XP, with an infinite number of random rewards from a pool consisting of Deluxe and Ultra Choice packs, 25,000-Stub vouchers, those aforementioned 88+ Live Series packs, and Chase packs for every 30,000 XP thereafter.
Other News and Notes
- The new player program advertised for this Friday features Hall of Famer Lou Brock, whose 99 OVR comes in as one of the best lefty contact bats in DD. The lack of elite power makes him a little less spectacular than a lot of other options, but as leadoff hitters and outfielders go, he's almost without parallel.
- A new Diamond Quest released Friday is actually a source of more new cards than the 11th Inning program itself. In this one, Hall of Fame series versions of Eddie Murray and Lee Smith are the Epic-tier rewards on a smallish map, with Deluxe choice packs as the Rare-tier prizes. The Moments and Stadium Challenges match players up against CPU teams stocked with Finest series players and higher-OVR squads.
- A new Turkey Conquest map has a passel of Premier packs as its listed rewards, with better hidden ones yet to be discovered.
- Weekend Classic's presumably final edition for MLB The Show 25 is actually a 10-day affair, ending not this coming Monday but on Monday, December 1.
- The Retro Finest program dropped on Tuesday of this week brought with it five 99 OVR Finest players from years past: Justin Turner, Gary Carter, Paul Goldschmidt, Gary Sheffield, and Andrew Miller. It's a breezy completion: Two Moments and some light work with those players can get it all completed in just a few games.
- While there is no other content listed as coming soon in the DD rundown for November, content will still trickle out in December, with new programs of the Captain Blizzard and player varieties, a new Mini Seasons release, and a new Diamond Quest all still advertised.
- New to the Shop is a free Turkey Bundle which contains a 99 OVR Taylor Ward -- just traded from the Angels he represents to the Orioles, unfortunately -- and a few Thanksgiving-themed cosmetics.
