Why Are You Forcing Your Players to Pitch From the Stretch in 26?
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@TheRupster12_XBL Some good points. I didn’t consider that not every pitch will come from the windup. While many relievers pitch quickly, some still pitch from the windup Fingers, Dibble and Mason Miller to name a few off the top of my head. We’re still talking about a ~10% reduction in game time on average. Even if it’s 8%, that’s not insignificant.
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@Daddy-Padre_XBL How about all of the above. Let’s have 20 minute 9 inning games.
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Why not just go to 2 outs per inning. That would greatly speed up games and is about a baseball accurate as getting rid of the windup. I sometimes think some people on these boards (and at SDS) just cosplay as actual baseball fans.
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@GradektheBard_PSN said in Why Are You Forcing Your Players to Pitch From the Stretch in 26?:
Why not just go to 2 outs per inning. That would greatly speed up games and is about a baseball accurate as getting rid of the windup. I sometimes think some people on these boards (and at SDS) just cosplay as actual baseball fans.
This is a game mode where .240 hitters get the same contact rating as Ted Williams
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Bingo! This will not speed up games drastically at all.. so it’s kinda silly imo
Also like you said.. aren’t some pitchers more difficult to hit from the stretch bc they have glitchy releases(from the stretch)
I know one off the top of my head that has a glitchy stretch release.. Kershaw
Not sure how many other pitchers have the kershaw thing going on
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@GodShammGod2_XBL said in Why Are You Forcing Your Players to Pitch From the Stretch in 26?:
Kershaw
Well, he won't be in the game this year so that is one less to worry about
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Pitching from the stretch is going to make toxic players constantly slide step and not slide step as it changes the release point of the pitcher. I HATE when people do that especially when they just randomly break not out in a high leverage spot. If it gets abused it would make online play pretty miserable
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0 reason to not give players the option to choose in H2H play
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@rageincage007_XBL said in Why Are You Forcing Your Players to Pitch From the Stretch in 26?:
Because baseball is all about speeding up. Getting the game over and going on to the next one. Ruining the beauty of the game with impatience.
Slight update to your well written words ... "Because SDS thinks MLB The Show is all about speeding up. Getting the video game over and going on to the next one. Ruining the beauty of the game with impatience."
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@ref479ode_PSN You can only slide step with runners on. How is it any different without windups?There’s a new pause between pitches, so no quick pitching either.
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This change is so disheartening. Please quit trying to make Ranked a “fast” mode. If people want a quick game then they can play BR or Events… or heck make a 3-inning Ranked mode as an option.
There needs to be a realistic 9 inning online competitive option. With the changes to pause timer so you barely have time to make a pitching change or set your defence, and now this change so you can’t see legendary windups of all-time great pitchers and will always be rushed, I fear I’m going to lose interest in ever playing online…
