The least effective pitch(es) in the game
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@writetoshawn said in The least effective pitch(es) in the game:
@Dino-might_not said in The least effective pitch(es) in the game:
Back door cutters, and back door sliders. Maybe a 20% hit-spot success rate?
Yup, sometimes they hit for me, and half the time I leave them hanging for a homer on a platter. Is it user input? Are some players able to dot that consistently?
Honest I think they're just broken. It's either a ball off the plate by 6 inches, or right down the pipe. I hit the outside black unintentionally with other pitches more than I do with perfect input on these pitches.
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Changeups too. No matter how low you spot them, they tend to hang at least 60% of the time. And they all end up on Jupiter.
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2-seem FB. My success rate with that pitch is like 10%...I've given up and don't use it anymore.
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The backdoor slider is a fool’s errand that I chased and got burned by one too many times.
Another is a curve with any pitcher that doesn’t have great control. If it strays, I pays.
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Change ups and curveballs.
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Curveballs are the most ineffective in my opinion because even if it doesn’t hang it’s unlikely to generate both a swing and a miss. I only throw them like 3 times a game and the result I hope for is for it to bounce in the dirt on a check swing just to get my opponent thinking about another pitch for a second
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Change ups are to me. Cutters are a close second though. Both just seem to hang middle/middle and get lit up.
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Lately for me, 4 seamers are useless. It’s like The Show 18 where they get blasted and I have to rely on my secondary pitches and only use the 4 seam fastball out of the zone as a bluff. Seems everyone just reacts to it and then clobbers it
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Anything that Juan Marichal throws
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It depends on the pitcher for me. Sometimes Awards Max Scherzer's fastballs will hit the mark, but other times a few in a row will miss just off the black, usually ones I throw East and West, which is incredibly frustrating. This happens with other pitchers and other pitches, though, not just Max.
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In this game you are able to throw three pitches with succes. Sinker, fastball with outlier and a cutter if it’s the number 1or 2 pitch. Anything else is worthless and it makes so many pitchers worthless
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@beanball0571 said in The least effective pitch(es) in the game:
In this game you are able to throw three pitches with succes. Sinker, fastball with outlier and a cutter if it’s the number 1or 2 pitch. Anything else is worthless and it makes so many pitchers worthless
I don’t think it’s THAT bad. Sliders are generally an effective pitch, and change ups, 12-6 curves, and slurves are usually effective except with certain pitchers.
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The 12-6 Curve ball is effective with a pitcher like Wagner who throws it without a rainbow arc, compared to say Darvish who throws it with said rainbow. Any pitch that is thrown with an arc, be it a curveball or changeup, will get crushed in this year's edition of the game, especially on All-Star where everything gets hit.
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@Dino-might_not said in The least effective pitch(es) in the game:
@beanball0571 said in The least effective pitch(es) in the game:
In this game you are able to throw three pitches with succes. Sinker, fastball with outlier and a cutter if it’s the number 1or 2 pitch. Anything else is worthless and it makes so many pitchers worthless
I don’t think it’s THAT bad. Sliders are generally an effective pitch, and change ups, 12-6 curves, and slurves are usually effective except with certain pitchers.
Fastball, slider, slurve are the three most effective pitches in the game this year. Most people would say “No, no no! It’s SINKER, fastball, slurve!” But that just became hyperbole since they gave everyone a sinker, regardless of what happens in real baseball. If you’re facing one of those early swinging morons who just try to pull everything, the break on a sinker is not going to be effective at all. They’re not even attempting to read the break, location or speed of the pitch. They’re simply swinging as soon as they see the ball leave the pitchers hand and hoping bad game design does the rest. A lot don’t even use PCI. In this instance, the sinker is rendered ineffective, much like a located fastball, because the flawed game design means it will be pulled hard more often than not, which we all know is the route to success this year above all else.
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This thread kinda shocked me, I K people up all the time with the backdoor cutter its my favorite out pitch.
For me, any changeup or curveball I throw in the zone (even if its on the corners) regardless of my input seems to hang and I get crushed by it.
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