Greg Maddux is awful
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I agree I tried him for 2 games. He’s nothing special
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@Jholla31 said in Greg Maddux is awful:
Y'all must be playing under HOF difficulty. I've pitched a 1 run CG (HOF) and a 7 inning 2 run game (Legend) with Maddux in the two games I've used him. His control is amazing (analog), his movement is disgusting, and you'll freeze people consistently if you pitch properly with him instead of trying to spam an 89 mph sinker up in the zone.
10/10 would definitely recommend Maddux to anybody that consistently plays above AS.
Cant wait to try him, Orel and May out in RS tonight.
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@mastermut4life said in Greg Maddux is awful:
@Jholla31 said in Greg Maddux is awful:
Y'all must be playing under HOF difficulty. I've pitched a 1 run CG (HOF) and a 7 inning 2 run game (Legend) with Maddux in the two games I've used him. His control is amazing (analog), his movement is disgusting, and you'll freeze people consistently if you pitch properly with him instead of trying to spam an 89 mph sinker up in the zone.
10/10 would definitely recommend Maddux to anybody that consistently plays above AS.
Cant wait to try him, Orel and May out in RS tonight.
Hated May, & I gave that guy dozens and dozens of innings of a try on HOF/Legend. Good luck.
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@Jeviduty said in Greg Maddux is awful:
@mastermut4life said in Greg Maddux is awful:
@Jholla31 said in Greg Maddux is awful:
Y'all must be playing under HOF difficulty. I've pitched a 1 run CG (HOF) and a 7 inning 2 run game (Legend) with Maddux in the two games I've used him. His control is amazing (analog), his movement is disgusting, and you'll freeze people consistently if you pitch properly with him instead of trying to spam an 89 mph sinker up in the zone.
10/10 would definitely recommend Maddux to anybody that consistently plays above AS.
Cant wait to try him, Orel and May out in RS tonight.
Hated May, & I gave that guy dozens and dozens of innings of a try on HOF/Legend. Good luck.
Oh thats disappointing to hear, but I guess not surprising. I've heard 99 Smoltz is just as bad. Maybe its time to go back to 99 Kluber.
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What are you guys talking about? Maddux is filthy. He throws as hard as Kluber and has more control. I have prestige Maddux and he touches 96-97 on his fastball. And then you drop the off speed. I think he has such a good mix of speeds. You have to use pitchers like leiter Maddux Orel in reverse. Instead using fastball to setup off speed, you use off speed to setup fastball. At least that’s how I have success with crafty pitchers.
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Maddux has been elite for me. I love him. Gonna be my ace rest of year working on prestiging him....
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@CubsFan708 said in Greg Maddux is awful:
What are you guys talking about? Maddux is filthy. He throws as hard as Kluber and has more control. I have prestige Maddux and he touches 96-97 on his fastball. And then you drop the off speed. I think he has such a good mix of speeds. You have to use pitchers like leiter Maddux Orel in reverse. Instead using fastball to setup off speed, you use off speed to setup fastball. At least that’s how I have success with crafty pitchers.
Exactly. That's what I do with 97 Wood. Use breaking ball stuff to see up his fastball. That's also how I pitched 88 Maddux to 8-1 114 SO and an .86 ERA.
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@PhillyRunt44 said in Greg Maddux is awful:
Maddux has been elite for me. I love him. Gonna be my ace rest of year working on prestiging him....
Great to hear. This is why I love hearing other players opinions, but then also try them out. How Maddux or Wood or even 94 Hendricks pitches for other wont necessarily be the same as me.
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I pitched one online game with him and he got lit up, but I don’t how I feel because he didn’t get rocked, just got blooped to death on weak contact...
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@mastermut4life said in Greg Maddux is awful:
@PhillyRunt44 said in Greg Maddux is awful:
Maddux has been elite for me. I love him. Gonna be my ace rest of year working on prestiging him....
Great to hear. This is why I love hearing other players opinions, but then also try them out. How Maddux or Wood or even 94 Hendricks pitches for other wont necessarily be the same as me.
Correct! I struggled with both Wood and Hershiser who everyone else loves so I tried Maddux. His control and pitch selection is amazing!! Can't wait to prestige him!
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I agree that Maddux is pretty bad. There’s 2 issues I have with him that make him bad: 1) his control ain’t that good. You can only paint with the sinker, and everyone knows where that pitch is going. Everything else is within half a strike zone of aim point. 2) the path his cutter takes is god awful. It is a homerun magnet with little break.
I can only succeeds with him by throwing sinkers high to lousy opponents. I hope that SDS takes a look at this specific card and does something to address his control and cutter.
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Grinding through events where I was a lot more concerned about strikeouts than wins he was hit and miss. Either great or awful. Pitching to contact works with him. Sinker fastball curveball combo works for him. Can't wait to use his prestige version in RS where I can just worry about getting people out.
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Like Maddux so far but you need to be a decent or better pitcher or he’s BP.
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@saintsfan_1029 said in Greg Maddux is awful:
I also found Maddox to have awful control, which was weird.
If he actually had elite control, he would be effective.That’s how I felt with Felix. I can’t even locate against the CPU. Don’t even wanna try him online he’ll get smoked
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I’ll put it this way, people who have a deeper knowledge about pitching and pitch sequences will have great success with Maddox. People who have basic knowledge about pitching will struggle with him.
It’s funny cause that is actually real life Maddox. One of the smartest pitchers to ever play and knew how to sequence his pitches to keep hitter off balance
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My Prestige Maddux would like to teach you things
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Maddux is great if you know how to pitch in this game.
And gtfo with all this “Maddox” stuff.
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I had control issues with him too. I’m old and remember watching him. He was the most accurate pitcher I’ve ever seen pitch in my life. They could have at least gave him that. I sold him. First inning I won’t have all three bosses locked. I don’t even have one from this inning.
I figured, even if next inning is fire, it’s not worth the 260k three bosses will cost locked just to get the reward. I can probably buy two of the next inning bosses for that.
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I gotta defend his control, I just threw 8 1/3 with him on all star, hung like 3-5 pitches all game. That’s outstanding for The Show 20. I can do be corners with him like nobody else- the only pitch that’s questionable sometimes is the change.
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I'm a few innings from prestige already, he's an absolute monster. I've pitched two perfect games in the 680's, on All-Star. He just gets better as you move into HOF.
But, you have to know how to pitch in order to have success with him. If you're the guy that spams high fastballs, you'll either learn how to use him and get better at the game, or you'll sell him after two starts.
