Found the worst C ever...
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I'm laughing my backside off right now. Thought you all might enjoy a post that's not about something not working in this game...
So, if you want to launch a pitching career, do NOT get drafted by the California Angels. Their AA team is the Rocket City Trash Pandas. There is only one catcher on that roster - Chris Gill who is 48 OVR and D potential. Apparently his glove is made out of stone. If you throw a fastball or changeup which lands inside the strike zone, about 90% chance of catching the ball. If you throw an off speed pitch with movement inside the zone, he will drop the catch a good 33% of the time. However, if you go outside the zone he drops almost everything.
So I'm pitching a fairly strong game. In the 8th inning, gave up a few hits but no runs scored. With no out, I bury a curveball in the dirt on an 0-2 count to the first batter. He swings and misses but the ball gets by Gill. Batter beats the throw to 1B. So now runner is on.
Next batter gets up and I eventually strike him out. But on the way to doing so, Gill drops 2 balls and the guy on first advances one base each time. He's now on third with one out.
Next batter is a pop out to 2nd - everything is good. Two outs and a runner on third who shouldn't even have gotten on base. Ah well, concentrate on the next guy, right?
Batter comes up. Gill drops a 4SFB right in the zone in the middle of the lower third of the zone which is called strike. The ball lands a few feet in front of him. He pops up and as soon as he does I find myself thinking "please God, don't snap throw to 3rd". Sure enough, Gill fires that snap throw to 3rd. About 10 feet over the 3B's head and into the corner of LF. Runner advances to score.
I get pulled from game and get hit with the L because, of course, my offense gives me no support that day.
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Just a follow up on the illustrious career of Chris Gill - the only catcher on the AA Trash Pandas.
The night before patch 1.05 drops, I'm dorking around with a SP. I throw a strike 3 in the zone, it bounces off Chris's mitt and the runner beats the throw to first. I start laughing because I know something is up. Next pitch - 2SFB in the corner but in the zone. Called strike. Passed Ball. Runner to 2nd. I'm thinking "holy crud - he's going to overthrow the second baseman, the balls going to go to the wall, runner is going to score, and I'm going to lose this game". No, good ol' Chris surprises me - I throw a 4SFB in the zone, upper left corner. Ricochets off of Chris's mitt and into the stands out of play. Runner advances 2 bases to home.
FML
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Sounds like my CAP when i play him at catcher.
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I read this and expected to see a picture of my ex-wife, then I realized the C stood for Catcher...my bad
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The Gameplay Director of MLB The Show 21 would be disappointed in this thread
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