@auraofrashida1e1 said in Combatting contact swings:
@vipersneak_mlbts said in Combatting contact swings:
@auraofrashida1e1 said in Combatting contact swings:
basic baseball, work the zone, mix pitches look at his/her PCI placement after each pitch and adapt,
PCI placement is basic baseball? The PCI has nothing to do with baseball.
real baseball is hot and cold zones and swing angles and tendencies, if you haven't Noticed there are literally I pass in the dugout with video of opposing pitchers and hitters to see there "pci" aka swing paths and ECT. and in this case for his question on how to combat contact hitter on a "Baseball Video Game" Pci is Baseball.
No, the PCI is a game construct that does not simulate baseball in any way at all. Hot and cold zones are not real, they are a statistic, and a pci is in no way simulating a 3 dimensional swing path. PCI is a 2D mechanic intended solely to make hitting arcade in a video game. It is not baseball. Similarly, throwing the ball is baseball, but hitting a line with a swing meter is not baseball. It is just the best they can do for a video game. Calling it baseball is absurd. The only baseball in any video game are based on decisions you make, like pitch location, pitch choice, deciding to bunt or not, deciding to steal or not, your lineup, etc.. The closest mechanic to baseball in the game is probably pitch timing when you are batting. At least that feels almost like timing a swing in RL. Moving the PCI to the pitch location does not feel anything like playing.