Clubhouse chatter: The sports video games the Padres grew up on – San Diego Union-Tribune

Jeremiah Estrada is a gamer. Yes, that means he’s a guy you can call on with no outs and the bases loaded and expect him to keep the game in check. But he’s also the sort of gamer who wheels his PlayStation 5 from city to city in a suitcase for downtime in hotel rooms. He is Exhibit A of what happens when millennials and zoomers become Major League Baseball players. Estrada excels between the lines, but he did not watch as much baseball as he played. For real and virtually. He poured hours in the “junkyard” mini-game into the Manny Ramirez-adorned EA Sports”MVP Baseball 2005″ as a kid. An early highlight of his professional career arrived in May 2024, when Sony San Diego Studio boosted his virtual card in “MLB The Show” from a 57 to a 99 for five days after he set an Expansion Era record with strikeouts in 13 straight plate appearances. Estrada could not wait to use a usable Estrada in the game’s live mode. Truth be told, that’s not exactly the game that he’s playing a ton when he gets downtime. “That’s a game to get the players you have to grind for it,”
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