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I recommend visiting the Negro Leagues Baseball Museum in Kansas City, MO, while we're on the subject. It's really cool to see some of the old gloves they used, and jerseys too.

Did anyone else see the news that MLB is rolling out a brand new minor league? Apparently, it's for draft eligible players, including high school and college players together in the same league. I think it read that about 5 or 6 teams would be created in cities that don't have a big league club already.

I like to drink green tea while I'm playing. I've noticed that stringing full glasses of water together before and after games helps hydrate. I've also started increasing the number of glasses of water I drink daily to 10 with the weather getting warmer, sometimes exceeding 20.

Didn't they call Minnie Minoso "Minnow" for short?

I used to love listening to Joe Morgan on Sunday Night Baseball. He had a pretty good career as a ball player, too.

Salvador Perez is my favorite active player. He looks like the best player for Kansas City right now. He had one of the most clutch hits in MLB history in 2014's AL Wild Card game. I think the highlight of that cue shot down the left field line is embedded in the visual memory of most people in KC.

@thehomiemiike said in Finest Bauer:

I used Baur on HOF and he’s legit my top 3 pitcher right now.. I liked him... buuuut I faced him a crushed him so I think it depends on how you use him... darvish to me is trash I got rage quits both time I played him lol

I mentioned something about Bauer's cutter in the Road To The Show section a few months back. Someone was asking a question about a pitch to add on their RTTS player.

I noted that I had just used Bauer (live series) with the Reds in a random Play Now game online, and there was something interesting about Bauer's cutter that I noticed. The velocity on Bauer's cutter was bottoming out at 83 mph. That's really slow for a cutter. I began thinking that Bauer's cutter could be used as an "inverted change up", of sorts, a change up with glove side movement, basically.

Not many pitchers have a cutter that slow, and I think Bauer's Finest card lists his cutter velocity in the low to mid 80s.

Hello. I hope you're all doing well. I recently, within the past two months, started playing Ranked Seasons. Before then, I was playing offline modes exclusively dating back to December or so in 2019's game. I'm trying to get used to seeing the ball out of an online opponent pitcher's hand. In offline play against the CPU, the pitcher comes set when throwing from the stretch. I'm either getting quick-pitched a lot by online opponents when they're out of the stretch, or the old balk rules don't apply in the 2020 version of the game, or both.

Does anyone feel like the pitcher's delivery can be rushed, forcing the hitter into being undisciplined, in online play?

@skywalker_25 said in Message flashed on screen:

I got it also, however, afterwards I got another message saying that the first message was sent out in error.

Yes, me too. I didn't see this thread until just now but I made a different post about likely the same thing in General Discussion.

The Sandlot, Bad News Bears and Rookie Of The Year.

Ji-Man Choi's Topps Now card has been a super consistent hitter for me. He's currently my back up 1B who I use as a switch hitting pinch hitter, but I hit so much better with that Choi card than I do with even other first basemen who are rated much higher.

Mookie Betts gives his teams something, some kind of factor, that no other teams have. Glasnow is one of my favorite pitchers to watch however, and the Rays are loaded with good ball players that can do a lot of things. I could see Urias and Buehler delivering some very competitive starts for the Dodgers. I want to see Kershaw get a World Series ring.

@icebergslim7669 said in Perfect game followed by no hitter on my newly acquired ps5:

Pitched a perfect game in rs last night with maddux, followed by a no hitter with ryan in my first rs game this morning,, only blemish was a 8 th inning walk, loving the ps5

Congratulations on the no hitter! The first no-hitter I threw online in The Show was with the Pirates' Gerrit Cole in 2015 or 2016's game.

@BearDownGoBlue said in Trivia for today:

1. Go Cubs
2. Go Cubs
3. Go Cubs
4. Go Cubs
5. Go Cubs

I'm not a Cubs or Cardinals fan, but I needed the laugh!

Hello! I hope you're all doing well! I just started a CF in RTTS. With the different equipment I have on him, his speed attribute reads 103 when he's on base. Apparently, it's not common knowledge that this can be done to other people in the MLB The Show community, as well. I just wanted to offer the information! Take care!

I use Strike Zone 3. I would think that the Fish Eye camera would create the appearance of an even bigger ball as it nears home plate. That could create a lot of over aggressive swings, but with practice, it could create better vision habits in seeing the ball quickly upon release from the pitcher. I may try it out now that I think about it. I have been playing only versus CPU as long as I've had MLB The Show 19, so I'm not a WS player, by the way.

Hello! I hope you're all doing well! I am pretty sure that I just linked my account to a the Show account. Before, my avatar was just the letter "B", and now it's a picture of the Tatis 21. How do I change my avatar? Any help would be appreciated. Take care!

I've heard that the splitter is a pitch that is more commonly found in pitchers who come to the U.S. from Japan. Tanaka (NYY) is just one example. I've heard that American born pitchers don't throw it as much as compared to decades prior because it can cause arm issues, and that Japanese born pitchers often bring the splitter with them when they enter MLB organizations because they are already taking a big leap by moving to North America anyway. It's a fascinating pitch, and I've noticed some difficulty hitting RHP splitters with RHB on The Show. I mainly find splitters in the RHB's low & inside quadrant of the zone specifically difficult against the CPU (HOF setting) and I often swing and miss at those strikes. It's could be an interesting pitch to add to a RTTS character's repertoire.

@boomy_91 said in Poll: Do any WS Players use Zoom, Strikezone 3, Fish Eye, etc.?:

@BaseballWithBat5 said in Poll: Do any WS Players use Zoom, Strikezone 3, Fish Eye, etc.?:

I use Strike Zone 3. I would think that the Fish Eye camera would create the appearance of an even bigger ball as it nears home plate. That could create a lot of over aggressive swings, but with practice, it could create better vision habits in seeing the ball quickly upon release from the pitcher. I may try it out now that I think about it. I have been playing only versus CPU as long as I've had MLB The Show 19, so I'm not a WS player, by the way.

I feel the game plays a lot different versus the CPU. Hitting is much smoother than online, which is likely because of internet connection, lag, etc.

Strike zone 3 isn't bad, but I had more success with zoom.

One of my methods of hitting involved locking down the pitcher's release point and tracking the ball from there. I found that this it much more difficult to do with extended camera views, which is why I went back to strike zone.

I hadn't thought about the smoother play offline. Thank you. Do you think there are camera views for hitting that are more compatible for online play to reduce chances of lag?

I just played with my Diamond Dynasty team on hall of fame versus the CPU controlled Mets. I did change the hitting view for this game from the usual Strike Zone 3 to Fish Eye 2, which is a first for me. The CPU pitcher was Stephen Matz, who does not have a traditional fastball, but I still timed up Jeurys Familia's faster pitches in relief later in the game. I won 9-1 and multiplied my usual hit total by 3x. I went 5 for 5 with both of the first two hitters in my lineup (98 Pedroia and 99 Baez). I only drew one walk (I try for at least 3 per game), and I think Fish Eye 2 allowed me to make solid contact on pitches out of the center of the zone more often.

Fish Eye 2 is probably going to allow a few more base hits to the opposite field per game (as opposed to Strike Zone 3 which I think forces more pull side hitting ideas because it's much closer to the pitcher), and more runs scored as the opposing pitcher's confidence decreases.

My Astros Cheating Poem
In the 2020 baseball season
Opposing fan fanbases may boo
Jeer and debate for an entire 162
The Astros probably didn't hit many nubbers
They may or may not have used buzzers
Players in both leagues are mad at each other
Trips to the video room after an at bat may never be the same
Who knows what other players were doing to pad the stats behind their name?
Can't we all just hit a foul ball?