A quick thought about a quick thing that could improve the game
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I'm tired of every time I walk a batter (or hit a batter), the next batter gets a 2R HR essentially every time. Not LITERALLY every time, but every time they have swing timing from yellow early to yellow late, and any pci placement within a couple feet of the ball. That's a homer guaranteed the next batter. I know it when I pitch, and I know it when I hit.
This means I treat issuing walks the same as issuing 2 run homers, which it is. I would LOVE a game where if I walk a guy, the penalty is that he gets a baserunner, not a 2R HR next batter. It would truly change everything.
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While I'm at it, curveballs are a real pitch in baseball. They really throw them in real life. We should be able to throw them in this game.
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I'm on a roll. How about letting us set our own defenses? I want to be able to bring in 7 fielders within 4 feet of the plate to defend against bunts. Why shouldn't I be able to do that? Absurd.
In real baseball, you can play your defenders anywhere. There isn't an invisible wall. There should be, but there isn't.
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Anytime a batter gets on base via hit by pitch or a walk, the Pitchers confidence is affected (because he failed to find the strike zone that AB or worse, he was just simply wild) that the very next batter gets a contact/vision boost & that will explian the frequency of Homers being allowed immediately after the previos batter was awarded 1B. Getting next out after a you gave up a walk will return the Pitchers Confidence to how it was to previous of the batter you walked.
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