Favorite Switch hitting swings:
- Finest Chipper
- Milestone Ketel Marte
- Milestone Elly
Favorite Switch hitting swings:
As long as the captain is in the game when my lineup screen is on, i can change himout before the preview screen and still get credit!
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Facts. That's how you do it, i quickly sold Machado made a cool 108K stubs. What angered me is i got to 30 wins and the rewind rewards, and they are all no sell. Like, what's the point of getting 30 wins if you can't sell the rewards.
@BMack_MLBTS said in June Lightning:
@MRAD2010_XBL said in June Lightning:
I really hope it’s Ohtani but I wouldn’t be disappointed if Acura got it. Let’s be honest though it would be disrespectful to Ohtani if he didn’t get it. He had a historic month hitting and pitching. Not taking anything away from Acura. He’s breaking records at the moment too. As long as it’s one or the other it’s a win.
It wouldn't be disrespectful if Ohtani didn't get it....Acuna has been on fire also plus the braves have the best record in the league right now....ohtani just got whooped by the padres the other day the angels hasn't been consistent
Acuna is the first player ever with 20+ hrs and 40 steals at the break. He is very deserving in his own right. It's Just that Ohtani has had the greatest month in professional sports. I mean, there that.
Custom practice. Team practice vs sliders, sinkers, and fastballs in the corners. 10-15 minutes before every game.
@CDNmoneymaker93_MLBTS said in Diamond Duos Pack 1:
I mean what's left to reveal at this point
Check notes
Reaming TA cards
Featured Program rewards
Collection rewards
BR rewards
Event rewards
WS rewards
Full WBC programWe are getting spoiled this year
Story line Rewards too
People are forgetting there will be a 'wildcard' slot to play a person through all the seasons.
@Bob_Loblaw1984 said in '23 LS Collection:
As much as I’d like to use Sammy day 1, I’ll be NMS again. Probably get him in April sometime. Plenty of other good RF options in the meantime. No interest in Jeter.
That Sammy Card will be Crazy and Jeter will be Honus Wagner with a little more pop and without the speed.
Which do you guys prefer: Pre-pitch to place your pci in the center and just react to what you see, or do you prefer to take away a zone? Just curious. I actually prefer to take away the inside zone and react to everything else. So i usually start down and in on both sides. Curious what others hitting approach is.
@raesONE-_PSN said in Best hitting view to recognizing low and out of the zone pitches is?:
I don't think there is a specific camera that will help you with this issue. What you should focus on instead is your plate discipline, patience and pitch recognition. The more pitches you see, the easier you'll recognize them.
Take 10 minutes every single game before you play and get in practice mode vs sliders/cutters. Work on it before you step foot in a game, every time. Team practice and actually face the top pitchers, you will get better. Turn the sliders up for the fastballs so you can train your eye for outlier.
With the latest reveals, i could see 99 Jeter being The AL reward, 99 Sosa the NL and 99 Mcgwuire the Big collection reward.
PS as I was watching that game on Apple +, I noticed that there are also a bunch of episodes of “This Week in Baseball” with Mel Allen and Bo was on the very first episode I turned on..guess who else was? Jim Abbott! There’s someone who, had he arrived on the scene now instead of then, would probably be viewed (and rightfully so) as one of the most incredible and inspirational athletes of all time! To make it to the Majors and I believe the Olympic Team as a pitcher despite being born without a HAND! Just to make it is incredible but he also pitched a no-hitter and I know I remember seeing him get a couple of hits as well!
I'm in my 40's and Bo Jackson is one of the most explosive best athletes i've ever seen in my life. I never got to see him in person, but i hear stories about how crazy athletic he was!
@BxnnyMxn__PSN said in The Negro Leagues are in MLBTS 23! Yes!:
…They are probably holding out big-name players for future editions. This did say Season 1, so there is still hope for more Greats down the road.
I’m kinda leaning that way too, and it makes the most sense in all honesty…especially when you consider that (I’m admittedly making an assumption here) chances are, your average baseball fan isn’t going to be acquainted with the better part of the players from back then…I mean everyone has heard of Mays, McCovey, Satchel, and Big Josh Gibson, but I’ve rarely heard mention of many others…myself included as an average fan that is ignorant when it comes to the Negro Leagues, except every old timer that I can remember discussing baseball with from my younger days (when these people were still alive), now these guys ALWAYS made sure to bring up the incredible talent that made up that league. I got the impression from the press release that, indeed, one of the major tenets behind this incredible upcoming edition is just that; to educate us all about some of these incredibly talented athletes. I personally cannot wait!
Hey, real quick, on the subject that you brought up about ‘stories’, I’ve just remembered another that I heard a while back on some show that I caught on tv that is relevant here. It was a show, possibly a documentary, where they had this very grizzled, ancient looking old retired sports journalist from way back in the day…picture the guys in cheap suits, cigarette smoke as thick as fog, and each man with a portable typewriter in their laps and you’ll begin to get the idea. This old timer was around to see the golden age of baseball (again my opinion) and he covered the Yankees back when greats like Gehrig, Ruth, and DiMaggio played. He said one day he was walking through a particular ball field (I picture from what he said like he might’ve been going through the concourse and hadn’t emerged into the seating yet), and his routine was to speak with the players during BP prior to the game to try and get some juicy bits of info, rumors, news, etc. He said all of the sudden, he heard the most tremendous(yet very familiar) sound that he had ever heard…he said it was unmistakably the familiar ‘CRACK’ of bat on ball, but he said the only swing that he ever heard that made a noise like this was from the Babe himself, but, he being someone who covered the Yankees, he knew that there was no way it was he because the event he came out to cover was a game between two teams from the Negro Leagues! The hairs on my neck stood up as he was telling this and you could just see it in the old man’s bright eyes - he was reliving this moment! He said the man at the other end of that bat, a mountain of a man over six feet and “well over 200lbs of solid muscle”, was none other than the incomparable Josh Gibson!
Isn’t that awesome?
So for me, My team name has been 'the Barnstormers' taken from when the negro league teams would take on the MLB teams in the 20's - 30's. Dizzy Dean's Cardinals matched up with Satchel Paige's team in 1938 i believe in Belleville IL and i got a chance to talk with someone who's father took her to that game when she was 12 years old! (she's well in her 80's now)It's actually one of the few times Satchels team actually lost. My CAP has been Josh Gibson for some time now. Got a chance to visit the negro leagues this past november, the inclusion of the negro leagues opens up a huge Vault of not just black players, but there was tons of dominican and carribean players who never got to see the major leagues. People cry for there favorite players to show up in the game and i get it. But when they get a chance to play with Oscar Charleston.......whom Buck Oneil said was the Greatest player he's ever seen.......i just hope they do his ratings correct. He was just as good as players like Willie Mays. I'm hoping that Josh Gibson gets a collection reward because he deserved people to have to put the work in to get him.
i understand, after 30 years of drafting/gaming, my hands aren't quite the same either. I'm in my 40's now and i have to stretch and warm up the muscles to get the blood flowing.
Get in practice mode and put the time in. I used Meter forever and just switched last season. Now i can never go back because Pin-point is the best IMO. That's the only way.
Oh well that’s good. Honestly, without the steroid era guys and since they obviously seem to stick with primarily 2000s players and beyond for the kids, pickings are slim. I’m stoked about Satchel Paige and the inclusion of the Negro Leagues- that is obviously a huge W and a throwback. Otherwise Jeter is the oldest.
The Inclusion of the Negro League players is what i'm most hyped about. People dont understand or even care to understand how many good players will come with this expansive vault opening....And there hasn't even been talk of Oscar Charleston yet.......
@Ericulous1_PSN said in Your 2023 first 48 hours plan:
@Bob_Loblaw1984 said in Your 2023 first 48 hours plan:
When the servers are up, my plan is to flip less and play more RS. Just having more fun with it overall.
I’m with you on this. I’ll still try to collect every Flashback and Legend while completing the LS collection but my focus will be more online play this season.
I played 280 Games of RS last year. Truth is, i'm not jumping into RS until i have a full Diamond Squad.
MLB: Josh Gibson Max Everything
I would like this, but I think they might want to do a Storyline Version of him first to tell his complete story so....
NL: Stan Musiel
AL: Derek Jeter Signature
I dont understand why we still dont have a Max Everything Willie Mays. I get it he's not going to the MLB LS Reward because he was in 19, but if you can give us a Max Mantle/Foxx/Cabrera.......Mays was better than all those dudes.
One of the biggest issues people have is not practicing. Yes you can get a monitor over a TV and that will help with Reaction time. But you know what really helps: Take 10 minutes and practice. Turn the sliders all the way up so the fastball looks crazy fast. Use Degrom on fastballs only and practice hitting the 4 corners. Use Burnes for Sinkers down and in. Use Degrom for sliders away. 10 minutes of practice. Get in a BR game and fastballs will appear to be going 88 mph. It's a process, it's cliche' but PRACTICE MAKES PERFECT.......OR IN OUR CASE PERFECT PERFECT