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Can we please have realistic umpires in Ranked?

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  • Ditka06 _MLBTSD Offline
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    @The_Joneser_PSN no you just want better pitching because you cant hit. Like I said hitting in this game is hard enough as is. Stop watching u tube videos. Those guys are the .00001 percent of the best players on the game. Most of us cannot hit anywhere near like them.

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  • Rhyno1986_XBLR Offline
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    Please stop saying perfect umpiring in DD. If you've played this game at all then you know this isn't true even to SDS 50/50 rule. Multiple times in a game you can literally have 90 or even 100% of the ball in the zone and it be called a ball. And you can literally watch and replay people fully swinging and it get called a check swings. Anyone who has played this game knows that umpires in DD is the second most random RNG thing ever.

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  • rubicante23_PSNR Offline
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    This complaint always confuses me. Why should this game be different than real baseball - real umpires are significantly less accurate than Show umps. You should get ABS challenge though (as long as you can't see the box)

    Hitting is a bit OP now - but only for the really good hitters (less than 5 percent of players). The foul ball thing is a problem, but I think most players need the help of getting bailed out routinely. Otherwise, strikeouts would through the roof.

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  • YOSHI24_XBLY Offline
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    Funny responses … is it really that hard to stick to one argument line 🙂 ?

    We have pitches, that are called balls which they are not … the game is capable to call strikes strikes … why can‘t it be that way?

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  • YOSHI24_XBLY Offline
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    @maurice91932_PSN said:

    I think both can be true. Every pitch that touches the black should be called a strike, and they can be a little more generous with perfect and almost perfect swings.

    What a perfect response. Thanks for that

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  • YOSHI24_XBLY Offline
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    To add on: I am just watching real life baseball … We got the ABS system, that calls every pitch a strike, even if it barely touches the edge of the strike zone. That is what MLB the Show should play like

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  • Ditka06 _MLBTSD Offline
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    @YOSHI24_XBL no it should not. Learn how to hit. Stop relying on the easiest part of the game. Pitching is easy

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    @rubicante23_PSN said:

    This complaint always confuses me. Why should this game be different than real baseball - real umpires are significantly less accurate than Show umps. You should get ABS challenge though (as long as you can't see the box)

    Hitting is a bit OP now - but only for the really good hitters (less than 5 percent of players). The foul ball thing is a problem, but I think most players need the help of getting bailed out routinely. Otherwise, strikeouts would through the roof.

    YOU should not need ABS in DD in a video game. It is a coding error that is being blatantly over looked since 25. It has been stated by SDS that a 50/50 ball IS suppose to be called a strike in online DD. However there are multiple times that even a 100% in the strike zone ptich will be called a ball.

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  • iBonafideScrub__PSNI Offline
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    Hitting is not overpowered, we need pitches on the black to be called strikes tho. It’s crazy that people don’t need to protect the zone and get free walks or second chances.

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  • The_Joneser_PSNT Offline
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    @Ditka06-_MLBTS, never watched a game streamer in my life, and hitting has never been easier; I'm hitting 60 points higher than I ever have.

    If you mean pitching is easy as in it isn't difficult to get the pitcher to throw the ball toward home plate, sure. In terms of run suppression in Ranked on All-Star, its a bit trickier.

    Regardless, if your argument is that strikes should be called balls because you aren't capable of digesting the fact that you should have swung but did not, then you should probably be playing Mario Kart. Or checkers.

    Maybe baseball just isn't for you.

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  • TheRupster12_XBLT Offline
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    If MLB The Show went with the true strike zone, playing ranked on anything higher than all star would be absolute hell. The amount of superdots that the PCI simply cant get to would be unbelievable. While the current umpire system should be improved, the solution is not to go to full rulebook strike zone. Just make the strike zone consistently 50/50, not what we have now.

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