MLB stars play ball, but don’t know ball when it comes to Pokémon

Poké Balls, baseballs, same thing. Right? Not really.

Recently, Major League Baseball polled some of its top stars to ask them who their favorite Pokémon is as part of the franchise’s 30th anniversary this year, and the majority of the answers were quite disappointing, to be honest.

I guess it’s hard to fault the players for not being completely versed in Pokémon if they’ve been busy building their hitting and fielding skills, but still, way too many of these guys said Pikachu. At their ages (most of them are in their 20s), they should know a bit more “ball” when it comes to pocket monsters.

Here’s the list of top mons from the ballplayers, with most of them pretty basic:

Charizard
- Mike Trout (Los Angeles Angels)
- Tarik Skubal (Detroit Tigers)

Blastoise
- Pete Alonso (Baltimore Orioles)

Bulbasaur (not Salazar or Barbazar)
- Ben Rice (New York Yankees)

Mewtwo
- Masyn Winn (St. Louis Cardinals)

Snorlax
- Hunter Brown (Houston Astros)

Zapdos
- Jake Burger (Texas Rangers)

Dialga
- Jordan Walker (St. Louis Cardinals)

Dragonite
- Jacob Wilson (Athletics)

Torchic and Blaziken
- Steven Kwan (Cleveland Guardians)

Pikachu
- Michael Harris II (Atlanta Braves)
- Shohei Ohtani (Los Angeles Dodgers)
- Fernando Tatis Jr. (San Diego Padres)
- Vladimir Guerrero Jr. (Toronto Blue Jays)
- Chase DeLauter (Cleveland Guardians)
- Oneil Cruz (Pittsburgh Pirates)
- Julio Rodriguez (Seattle Mariners)
- Geraldo Perdomo (Arizona Diamondbacks)
- Byron Buxton (Minnesota Twins)
- and several more

The majority of the players stuck to the original 151, which is fine. I gained some new respect for Jake Burger today, because we’ve got the same favorite. And a big shoutout to Colton Cowser of the Orioles for actually collecting cards and being four away from completing the Mega Evolution set. Everyone else, it’s time to start doing some research, especially as a bunch of these guys now have young kids of their own.

Agree to disagree, Pokémon account.

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There’s a host of different stats in Vampire Crawlers that will define your chances of completing a specific stage. If you’ve played Vampire Survivors, you’ll be well familiar with most of these stats. If not, then you can refer to the following section to understand what each attribute means.

Vampire Crawlers stats explained

The table below briefly explains what every stat means so that you can always stay on top of your deck’s strength and prowess.

Stat	What it Does
Max Health	It raises your Max Health by 10% per rank. You’ll still need to heal and restore your health after increasing the cap.
Recovery	Heals 1 HP per rank after each encounter. Extremely useful to passively restore your lost HP after every completed battle.
Hand	Determines the number of cards you’ll pull when a fresh turn begins.
Mana	Raises the max mana available for you to use.
Armor	Nullify all incoming attacks. You gain +1 Armor per rank, and also increase it by playing Armor cards.
Might	Raise the base damage of all weapons by 10% per level.
Area	Dish out AoE damage from your attacks, which increases by 10% per rank.
Amount	Adds extra projectiles for your weapon cards.
Duration	Allows you to increase the duration of your Crawler’s stay by one per rank.
Magnet	You can draw extra cards per turn.
Revival	Get extra lives.
Luck	Raises all positive stats, along with increasing the quality of your drops. It increases by 20% per rank.
Growth	You can get extra XP.
Greed	You’ll get 10% extra Gold Coins per rank.
Reroll	You can reroll your draw to try and get other options. You get +2 reroll choices per rank.
Skip	You can skip level-up rewards to get extra XP and Gold.
Banish	You can banish cards that you want to avoid from showing up on your run.
Curse	A negative stat that will amplify the damage of your enemy’s attacks. However, you’ll get more XP and Gold.

Typically, the Power Ups you use will have a direct impact on the stat values of your current run. When you upgrade a Power Up, it will permanently raise the applicable stat for your character (the buffs will be available across all runs). However, your attributes will also depend on the cards you draw and the crawler(s) you use.

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