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I must admit that I've been rather disappointed with the selection of classic stadiums over recent games, which aside from one or two additions (Humphrey Metrodome), has been more or less the same set.
I've been dying to see Tiger Stadium, the hallowed field at the corner of Michigan and Trumbull, added to the game as a classic stadium. It amazes me that it hasn't yet. Tigers fan or not, you can't deny how iconic it was. C'mon, SDS!
I also think they need to work on minor league stadiums... need to add ones like BB&T Park, where the Charlotte Knights play, and include the Charlotte skyline in the background, that'd be nice.
So since we still haven't gotten a custom park feature, what stadium do you want added in next year's game? Classic or otherwise?
Pitcher confidence usually determines how well a pitcher performs. It does help with accuracy, but it also helps with pitch effectiveness and how difficult it is to get strikeouts or induce other types of outs. The higher your confidence, the more strikes and strikeouts you can get, and the less hits and walks you allow. It affects the pitcher more than the hitter, but it does affect how easy/hard it is for the batter to hit against you. Thus, it affects how well you perform against a pitcher when you're batting—it's why that if you swing at literally everything he throws at you, it's going to be very difficult to get a hit.
Pitcher confidence increases in varied degrees by doing the following— Getting strikes, causing swings and misses, getting strikeouts, and getting outs in general. Also, when a batter fouls off a pitch, it counts as a strike, so it also raises confidence. Confidence increases more if the batter swings at a pitch that's out of the zone for a strike, for example (basically, the more you stupid you make the batter look, the more your confidence goes up).
Pitch confidence decreases due to the following—The batter takes a pitch for a ball, if you allow a hit of any kind (and the greater the hit, the more confidence you lose—allowing a HR causes more confidence to be lost than allowing a single), if errors of any kind are allowed, allowing a runner to score, hitting a batter, walking a batter, throwing wild pitches, or throwing passed balls. Stolen bases might affect confidence, but I haven't payed enough attention to be sure. Basically, if things hit the fan, pitcher confidence goes down the drain.
Another important note—confidence not only affects overall performance, but it also affects performance with each pitch in your pitcher's repertoire. For example, if you get a strikeout with a nasty curveball, your pitcher is going to be more confident in using that pitch. That, in turn, increases the pitch's speed, accuracy, and break. If you throw the curveball and the batter hits it for a HR, then you are going to lose confidence with that pitch and will have trouble throwing it accurately and for strikes.
Moments... from hell's heart, I stab at thee...
For those who aren't in the loop, there are no sell orders for Rockies RP AJ Ramos. For those of us trying to complete the Live Series collection, this is a major issue. There are other players like Ramos who have no sell orders, either, so help us all out and sell those too.
Basically the three players you should sell are:
Please do not exchange or quick sell your spare AJ Ramos, Soto, or Espino. Sell him to us for 1000 stubs on the market! We greatly appreciate it!
@Mugno_Sports said in Good PCI/Good Swing problems:
@iBonafideScrub_ said in Good PCI/Good Swing problems: Good PCI placement and good swings mean nothing in this game. I find myself losing games to people who swing early(yellow) to pitches down and away and still hit the ball out of the park but I get perfect/perfect and fly out to the warning track or ground out to the SS. This is beyond frustrating Please watch this, because i share your frustation https://youtu.be/PfFmuEM68rA
@iBonafideScrub_ said in Good PCI/Good Swing problems:
Good PCI placement and good swings mean nothing in this game. I find myself losing games to people who swing early(yellow) to pitches down and away and still hit the ball out of the park but I get perfect/perfect and fly out to the warning track or ground out to the SS. This is beyond frustrating
Please watch this, because i share your frustation https://youtu.be/PfFmuEM68rA
And that right there is why I never picked up this year's game. Who wants a game that's based off of RNG and not skill... makes no sense. Saved myself a lot of brain cells by sticking with MLB 19 and not getting MLB 20.
Update: MLB has suspended the Asterisk's hitting coach for 20 games. They also suspended Laureano for 6 games, but Laureano is appealing his suspension.
I hope they grant his appeal.
Just when I thought this year couldn't get any worse, here 2020 goes again. RIP Eddie Van Halen.
Did you know that the band worked on the music for 1996's Twister? Listen to the original soundtrack sometime, the guitar work in it is gorgeous.
I don't understand why they make moments so ridiculous like this. Half or more of the moments, even in last year's game, seem rigged. Willie Mays' 600th career home run moment, anyone?
@Dclnnn said in A's and Astros not practicing social distancing:
@byrdman-10 said in A's and Astros not practicing social distancing: @PennStateFencer said in A's and Astros not practicing social distancing: @byrdman-10 said in A's and Astros not practicing social distancing: I get the frustration about being hit multiple times and being mad, but as a professional you have to control your emotions. As a professional? The Astros were banging on trash cans to cheat their way to a title like they were the villains in a made for TV coming of age sports movie. I understand the point you're trying to make about keeping your cool, but calling out another team for being unprofessional after what the Astros got caught doing is absurd. Astros were dead wrong for cheating, but throwing at batters heads (Kelly) and rushing the dugout (Ramon) are wrong as well. check the link i sent, if you can click on one. And, were the astros not throwing at ramon's head? thats part of why everything happened.
@byrdman-10 said in A's and Astros not practicing social distancing:
@PennStateFencer said in A's and Astros not practicing social distancing: @byrdman-10 said in A's and Astros not practicing social distancing: I get the frustration about being hit multiple times and being mad, but as a professional you have to control your emotions. As a professional? The Astros were banging on trash cans to cheat their way to a title like they were the villains in a made for TV coming of age sports movie. I understand the point you're trying to make about keeping your cool, but calling out another team for being unprofessional after what the Astros got caught doing is absurd. Astros were dead wrong for cheating, but throwing at batters heads (Kelly) and rushing the dugout (Ramon) are wrong as well.
@PennStateFencer said in A's and Astros not practicing social distancing:
@byrdman-10 said in A's and Astros not practicing social distancing: I get the frustration about being hit multiple times and being mad, but as a professional you have to control your emotions. As a professional? The Astros were banging on trash cans to cheat their way to a title like they were the villains in a made for TV coming of age sports movie. I understand the point you're trying to make about keeping your cool, but calling out another team for being unprofessional after what the Astros got caught doing is absurd.
I get the frustration about being hit multiple times and being mad, but as a professional you have to control your emotions.
As a professional? The Astros were banging on trash cans to cheat their way to a title like they were the villains in a made for TV coming of age sports movie.
I understand the point you're trying to make about keeping your cool, but calling out another team for being unprofessional after what the Astros got caught doing is absurd.
Astros were dead wrong for cheating, but throwing at batters heads (Kelly) and rushing the dugout (Ramon) are wrong as well.
check the link i sent, if you can click on one. And, were the astros not throwing at ramon's head? thats part of why everything happened.
Not to mention that the Astros in the dugout are wrong for EGGING Laureano on in the very first place. Laureano didn't want to fight, but the Astros egged him on and made derogatory marks about his family. And Laureano is well within his right to be furious about that.
The Astros got a slap on the wrist—Shoeless Joe is probably rolling in his grave.
Have you tried wearing a space suit? They have pee storage units.
Speaking 9th inning bosses, how is Honus at 2nd? I remember last year's Honus card had silver fielding (the shield) at second base.
@jz2016cubs said in How to Be Traded?:
@pogibana said in How to Be Traded?: You do know that when you create a player you have the option of picking the team you want to play for. If you don't want to do that then don't complain about the team that drafts you because usually it is a bad team that needs good players His point is that he likes his player on the Tigers, but doesn't want to be with them.
@pogibana said in How to Be Traded?:
You do know that when you create a player you have the option of picking the team you want to play for. If you don't want to do that then don't complain about the team that drafts you because usually it is a bad team that needs good players
His point is that he likes his player on the Tigers, but doesn't want to be with them.
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A 9-inning no-hitter? Congratulations!
How about Nuke LaLoosh in that rotation?
@KaptinKrunch00 said in Shortstops to get:
@The_DoctorsWife said in Shortstops to get: Get 98 SS Alan Trammell if you get the chance. Be patient when batting with him, and he's great at getting on base. Isn’t he like only 18k sell now? I might pick him up and see how he does.
@The_DoctorsWife said in Shortstops to get:
Get 98 SS Alan Trammell if you get the chance. Be patient when batting with him, and he's great at getting on base.
Isn’t he like only 18k sell now? I might pick him up and see how he does.
He's pretty cheap compared to other shortstops out there. He has a diamond shield when he fields, and he makes some awesome plays. Nothing gets past him unless the AI is stupid.
I'm sure this has been asked before a dozen times, but how do I get traded? The Tigers keep letting me down no matter how many runs I put on the board (thanks to bad starting and relief pitching), and I've had it.
I want to go to Atlanta, but how do I do that? When I get my offseason call from my agent, do I tell him I'm dissatisfied?
I say they should take sound bytes from Matt Vasgersian's best moments, clean them up, and put them in the game. He gets more exited about stuff irl than he does in-game.
I sometimes play games at 11:00 AM, but not sure how 11 AM and 1 PM compare to one another.
Try playing with overcast weather, or going into your TV settings and switch it to game mode.
