NEW STRIKE ZONE TOMORROW
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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."
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The update has been helpful so far guys because I actually got some pitches that I threw barely called strikes.
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realize that's moving away from realism.
How so? MLB has the ABS IRL. This is about as real as it gets right now. Look, I'm all for it because for years SDS was touting "perfect" umpires in DD...and they were anything but. I'd rather have it this way because no you don't get to just wait for your opponent to inevitably be squeezed by the umpire and crush a "forced" hittable pitch. You've actually got to protect now.
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I don't mind it so much, other than there obviously needs to be some graphical tweaking. I had a ball that JUST clipped a corner (we are talking pixels overlapped) that was a strike, as it should be. However, in the same game, with the same pitcher, I had a ball clip the top of the zone, at the center, where more of the ball was in the zone (not much more, but it was obviously more), and that was somehow a ball. Personally, I don't care how it is, I just want consistency, and it's good that that is what they are going for, but it doesn't look like they are quite there yet.
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They HAD to do this. Before it was such a bad look with the ABS irl and the game showing pitches halfway in the zone called for balls
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I think the strike zone box is going n my head now because I just can’t hit anymore
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On_a_Power_Trip_PSN I’m just going by my eyes, and when there’s air between the strike zone and where the ball went, it should not be a strike. And that’s not just in the moment but when you look at where all the pitches went after
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After playing with it for a while now, I think ABS is a complete disaster for the game of baseball… having a strike zone that is enforced where even if it’s just the laces of the ball that touch it is infuriating… the strike zone has been redefined. I think this is a travesty to the game of baseball. I don’t think the strike zone was ever meant to be interpreted so literally. I’m so glad I got to live through the glory days of baseball in the 80’s, before the game turned so corporate and stupid (like the players have become actors, with their contrived HR dances with props, or foolish looking hand and arm motions that look like they could be flashing gang signs after getting a hit). They’ve managed to strip away so much of the authenticity from the game.
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TL;DR - ‘old man yells at cloud “what happened to the game I love?”’
(though I agree on the point of the corporatization of sports)
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That "bring back the 80s" post is super strange, because the modern ABS strike zone is, in general, way tighter on pitchers. In the 80s, you'd see nonsense like lefty relievers getting pitches way outside being called strikes "on the black"
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I love the strike zone. What I don't like is feeling like you're never getting rewarded. Complete the MP program for scraps. 189 hours in the game (seriously declined my time the past 3 weeks) and not even remotely close to NL or Miggy. Just feels like a colossal waste of time.
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@BLAISEBLAISE_PSN I mean the box was bigger before it’s more than just a visual change.
