NEW STRIKE ZONE TOMORROW
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I have no issue with the new zone - I just dont like that its "perfect" now (no variance from game to game - if it clips box, its a strike). Doesn't feel realistic at all to me.
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@Onix_Savage22_PSN you’ll get used to it - pitches just out of the zone are easier to hit than pitches in zone sometimes
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I have no issue with the new zone - I just dont like that its "perfect" now (no variance from game to game - if it clips box, its a strike). Doesn't feel realistic at all to me.
Well, that's the game of baseball now. I mean, I personally think it's gotten a bit more consistent...before with "perfect" strikezones pitchers were being squeezed so much you almost had to throw something fully in the zone to get a strike.
Last night I played two games of coop with my friend...and the foul balls went up because batters are now realizing they need to protect the plate more...but strikeouts looking went up because guys are now forced to make that gamble- which I'm ok with. Happened to be when batting too, and again that's ok...now there's some consistency
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@Sarge1387_PSN yeah, but realize that's moving away from realism. There's no consistency with real umps - they miss a ton. You get 2 challenges, yes (and you should in game too with box disappearing) - but real umps still miss borderline pitches a ton.
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Plus, it would just be super fun to get to challenge calls and have the suspense of it in the game
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@On_a_Power_Trip_PSN I love it from a pitching standpoint and Ive been more of a player that’s pitching wins me ball games my offence just has to do enough. Which I’ve won 5 of my last 6 so my offence has been getting the job done pitching has Been lights out.
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Good for online, probably gonna frustrate offline grinders though, especially on conquest where it turns a lot of those balls into dotted strikes. EDIT Actually I guess it's still the same but just different visually?
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@xRatedGProdigyx_PSN well, its about the same - different visual box, and no more variance in calls (so before the same pitch could be called a ball one time and strike next time - not possible now)
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I have no issue with the new zone - I just dont like that its "perfect" now (no variance from game to game - if it clips box, its a strike). Doesn't feel realistic at all to me.
I'd rather have perfect and know exactly what is and isn't going to be a strike than the RNG BS that occurred prior.
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The strike zone got a lot bigger… I think it’s going to favor pitchers immensely and force batters to swing at far more pitches. I can’t imagine how difficult this is for big league hitters. If the seams of the ball touch the zone, like just over the low outside corner, it’s a strike… on a virtually unhittable pitch. I think it’s going to be catastrophic for this game.
I feel the same way, strike has gotten bigger. I find myself having to swing at pitches I don't normally swing at just to protect and get a lot of weak foul offs or ground balls back to the pitcher. Definitely walking less.
One a side note, I have noticed I am able to make better contact on low and away sliders. Probably doesn't mean much.
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About as close as I’ve seen. yesterday, this would’ve been an 50/50 call and would be fine with either call. I will say this new zone does seem to be helping me with waiting for better pitches early in the count.
The walks and good contact I got, were from always taking until I got my 1st strike. I feel that 0-2 1-2 counts we are dead in the water.now.
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I will say this new zone does seem to be helping me with waiting for better pitches early in the count.
I played my first RS game this morning with the new strike zone, and I find the same thing. I was able to lay off pitches outside the zone a lot better. We'll see how this plays out over time.
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I like the new change. I struck out watching a ball just nip the zone and was like, WTH!, pretty comical. This is gonna be a positive change
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Effectively, I think it has made the zone a bit bigger. Its good to give high-control pitchers a fighting chance. I'd even be fine with going slightly bigger on strike zone if they nerfed the sinker.
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@rubicante23_PSN struck out a couple of times to a sinker that barely touches the top corner which is impossible to hit.
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I despise striking out.
I used to rage striking out irl! If I made the majors, I would've needed counseling. I even bent someone's expensive aluminum bat, flinging it after a K, growing up. I'm going to need to get the right frame of mind now, or just stop playing. That will be hard when NHL HUT ends and there's no other sports game to play. -
@TheGoaler_PSN I get this at points I was this kid when I was in younger ball like 11u. I remember I get cut from a triple A team that went on to lose in provincial finals as a underager I was invited to there tryouts as a 8 year old in under 11 and I had a fit not at the field but when I got home I lost it thought this was a funny story lol. But as I got older I lost this so called “rage” mindset causes nothing but damage definitely should just stop playing if u can’t take the k.
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If I understand it right, balls and strikes will be called the same. The box (which only appears before the pitch is released and after it arrives) appears smaller so that the same pitch calls match the real baseball rules where clipping the zone counts as a strike. Nothing really changes except the perspective and box for reference
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@BLAISEBLAISE_PSN how would that be the same?
see marks comment right above this
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@markemark_NSW yes, BUT....I think there is a slight change in that there used to be "50-50 rule" where borderline pitches were sometimes called strikes and sometimes balls. In other words, the same exact pitch could be called a ball one time and a strike the next.
That variability is gone. If that's true, that makes it a little more complicated than "just a visual change."
