Contact Swing... Guilty!
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I feel the need to confess that I used Contact Swing in my most recent H2H game.
Desperate to beat an evenly matched foe and down a run, I pinch hit power machine Ray Durham to face Billy Wagner.
First pitch fastball, and I put my best contact swing on that bad girl.Durham hit one of those majestic, Matt Stairs-esque moon shots that take about 30 seconds to land.
420 ft to left field at the Metrodome.After walking it off in the 9th, I felt the need to shower.
I'm a contact swing girlie man now, in desperate situations.Please forgive me...
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More concerned about the fact that you play in the Metrodome.
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I contact swing with two strikes on HoF, not ashamed of it, I see it as choking up on the bat and would still do it if it was debuffed a bit
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I’m confused. Contact swing vs what, power? I always use contact. Is that considered an advantage to sacrifice power?
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@The-Harvest_XBL said in Contact Swing... Guilty!:
I’m confused. Contact swing vs what, power? I always use contact. Is that considered an advantage to sacrifice power?
There are three types of swings, contact, power, and normal
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Not sure why people see contact swinging as some pariah to never be mentioned. At least you didn’t admit to bunt dancing and r2 cheesing every swing. Or, worst of all, replaying that wall scraper down the right field line at Yankees stadium. That might have elicited a different response. I think we all can forgive you.
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Wait. Is it still broken like at the start of 21?
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I have hit many bombs w it.
When I least expect it. -
Contact swing is SUPPOSED to be a 2-strike, just looking to make "contact", approach.
It's been broken for years (hence the sarcasm in my OP), and it used to be considered the sissy way to hit.
In other words, I should never be able to hit a HR with contact swing -- even if it's a 125 power.
Definitely not with Ray Durham.But maybe I'm the idiot for not using it more often.
This problem was fixed in a parallel universe, along with stealing and defensive range.
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@Misfits_138_1_PSN said in Contact Swing... Guilty!:
Contact swing is SUPPOSED to be a 2-strike, just looking to make "contact", approach.
It's been broken for years (hence the sarcasm in my OP), and it used to be considered the sissy way to hit.
In other words, I should never be able to hit a HR with contact swing -- even if it's a 125 power.
Definitely not with Ray Durham.But maybe I'm the idiot for not using it more often.
This problem was fixed in a parallel universe, along with stealing and defensive range.
It certainly will never be fixed on our Earth.Maybe you’d never seen Ichiro hit. His swing is a classic contact swing yet that dude still managed to hit a few dingers every year on accident. BTW Ray Durham had way more power than Ichiro. Heck Tony Gwynn had 5 seasons where he eclipsed 10 homers and he was the epitome of the contact swing. So saying that there is no way you should ever hit a homer with the contact swing is just silly
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@killerpresence4_MLBTS said in Contact Swing... Guilty!:
@Misfits_138_1_PSN said in Contact Swing... Guilty!:
Contact swing is SUPPOSED to be a 2-strike, just looking to make "contact", approach.
It's been broken for years (hence the sarcasm in my OP), and it used to be considered the sissy way to hit.
In other words, I should never be able to hit a HR with contact swing -- even if it's a 125 power.
Definitely not with Ray Durham.But maybe I'm the idiot for not using it more often.
This problem was fixed in a parallel universe, along with stealing and defensive range.
It certainly will never be fixed on our Earth.Maybe you’d never seen Ichiro hit. His swing is a classic contact swing yet that dude still managed to hit a few dingers every year on accident. BTW Ray Durham had way more power than Ichiro. Heck Tony Gwynn had 5 seasons where he eclipsed 10 homers and he was the epitome of the contact swing. So saying that there is no way you should ever hit a homer with the contact swing is just silly
I can't disagree. I have had a couple of times using contact swing just to not strikeout and try to get a runner on only to have Honus Wagner go deep. I drilled a no doubt homer with Curtis Granderson doing this.
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@killerpresence4_MLBTS said in Contact Swing... Guilty!:
@Misfits_138_1_PSN said in Contact Swing... Guilty!:
Contact swing is SUPPOSED to be a 2-strike, just looking to make "contact", approach.
It's been broken for years (hence the sarcasm in my OP), and it used to be considered the sissy way to hit.
In other words, I should never be able to hit a HR with contact swing -- even if it's a 125 power.
Definitely not with Ray Durham.But maybe I'm the idiot for not using it more often.
This problem was fixed in a parallel universe, along with stealing and defensive range.
It certainly will never be fixed on our Earth.Maybe you’d never seen Ichiro hit. His swing is a classic contact swing yet that dude still managed to hit a few dingers every year on accident. BTW Ray Durham had way more power than Ichiro. Heck Tony Gwynn had 5 seasons where he eclipsed 10 homers and he was the epitome of the contact swing. So saying that there is no way you should ever hit a homer with the contact swing is just si
My friend, I never said anywhere in my OP that you should never be able to hit a HR with contact swing.
Sure, Mike Trout, Mantle, et.al. should be able to occasionally hit a dinger while using contact.
But the devs in the past have said that power is supposed to be greatly affected when using it. In other words, light hitting slap hitters like Durham, Lofton, even Tony Gwynn and his four season power display of 10x HR's should never/rarely hit them.Come on, guys.
Every person on this forum knows contact has been broken for years-- hence the ability to foul off curve balls that bounce in the dirt.
It keeps crummy players competitive and good players become great players.Take away the absurd outer PCI and see where most players stand.
By the way, what exactly does the outer PCI represent?
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I have absolutely NO PROBLEM with contact swing. It’s the R2…..bunt dancing…..bunt cheesing D-bags that I have issues with. Bunting and bunt dancing is never going away. In regard to R2, I just wish they would allow the pitcher to step off the rubber an unlimited amount of times to counter R2. You can R2 unlimited. I should be able to step off unlimited.
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@killerpresence4_MLBTS said in Contact Swing... Guilty!:
Not sure why people see contact swinging as some pariah to never be mentioned. At least you didn’t admit to bunt dancing and r2 cheesing every swing. Or, worst of all, replaying that wall scraper down the right field line at Yankees stadium. That might have elicited a different response. I think we all can forgive you.
Just wait. He'll do those when you play him. Watched a buddy of mine play him in a BR game and the bunt dancing and R2 Spamming was plentiful. I think he even tried to steal home mid windup to try to get the pitcher dive animation.
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@MrMcGibblets_MLBTS said in Contact Swing... Guilty!:
@killerpresence4_MLBTS said in Contact Swing... Guilty!:
Not sure why people see contact swinging as some pariah to never be mentioned. At least you didn’t admit to bunt dancing and r2 cheesing every swing. Or, worst of all, replaying that wall scraper down the right field line at Yankees stadium. That might have elicited a different response. I think we all can forgive you.
Just wait. He'll do those when you play him. Watched a buddy of mine play him in a BR game and the bunt dancing and R2 Spamming was plentiful. I think he even tried to steal home mid windup to try to get the pitcher dive animation.
Not sure if you're referring to me, but I never bunt dance, or cheese EVER.
What I HAVE done on occasion is when my opponent bunt cheeses, R2's to death, or is a knob in general, I wait till I get a comfortable lead.
Then in the last inning I will return the favor... A taste of their own medicine.
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@Misfits_138_1_PSN said in Contact Swing... Guilty!:
@MrMcGibblets_MLBTS said in Contact Swing... Guilty!:
@killerpresence4_MLBTS said in Contact Swing... Guilty!:
Not sure why people see contact swinging as some pariah to never be mentioned. At least you didn’t admit to bunt dancing and r2 cheesing every swing. Or, worst of all, replaying that wall scraper down the right field line at Yankees stadium. That might have elicited a different response. I think we all can forgive you.
Just wait. He'll do those when you play him. Watched a buddy of mine play him in a BR game and the bunt dancing and R2 Spamming was plentiful. I think he even tried to steal home mid windup to try to get the pitcher dive animation.
Not sure if you're referring to me, but I never bunt dance, or cheese EVER.
What I HAVE done on occasion is when my opponent bunt cheeses, R2's to death, or is a knob in general, I wait till I get a comfortable lead.
Then in the last inning I will return the favor... A taste of their own medicine.
But I have never instigated it.So showing bunt then pulling back multiple times per AB isnt classified as bunt dancing? Because that's what you did to him. You would show bunt, then as he was winding up, you would go back into your regular stance and as soon as he was ready to release the pitch you would go back into bunt and then pull away as the ball was coming. It messed with the timing.
And I guess holding R2 before and after every pitch is ok?
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Contact swing exasperates being able to foul off balls in the dirt, a foot above the zone, and inside where they should hit you.I’m all for having a “choke up” and battle with 2 strikes, but the way it is now is ridiculous /awful.
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