I remember when he came up with the Cubs, had a great post season and was deemed the next Babe Ruth. Since that time he's been your typical "close eyes, swing real hard" player like 99% of MLB. Before the year is over he will be like everyone else. .200 average 30-40 homers and a million whiffs.

@ladyswampfox_xbl said in Attn SDS: Inability To Tag Out Runners Is A Major Problem:

I'm sick and tired of the first baseman not being at the bag to get the runner on a 9-3 putout. It was deliberately programmed by SDS so that I can't get Molina out 9-3. It isn't a baseball simulation if they can't let you do what players do in real life. Really pisses me off.

I have had many times where my RF has a great arm and could have thrown out a single digit speed batter at first, but the first baseman is standing in the field nowhere near the base. It's frustrating to say the least.

No, you won't get more than one player for career mode. I feel like they are phasing that out and FORCING everyone to DD, which is where they can go full EA sports on us and make everything a micro transaction.

I seem to be the guy who gets the player so awesome his rating is in the 50's and they don't even have a photo of him. I don't get excited about pack openings any longer. The only good cards I have gotten is through the moments.

I just started playing DD after being told I don't understand it's point in the game. For those who told me I was wrong I have only scratched the surface, and it's definitely not what I expected, so I probably am wrong from what I see.

Anyway, my question is I keep seeing the term "BR Game" a lot and don't know what it means.

No, I don't have them blasting homers all over the place, but they seem to have an uncanny knack of hitting a 2 strike pitch that's almost into the other side of the plates batters box into the gap for a double, especially if there are two out in the inning.

So I finally decide to try and play humans online, and every mode I get a subscribe to some playstation service in order to play online. Does this mean I literally can only play others by subscribing to a service?

If so I guess I won't be trying my hand against humans as I am not going to pay to have joey freezoff quit on me should I get lucky and take an early lead.

I mean I already paid for the game and the unit to play on it. Sorry if it sounds like whining, and perhaps it is, but I can go to a bunch of games online and pay for the game and start playing, not buy the game, then pay even more to play other humans.

Mark Grace is just another very good first baseman. Solid glove, good contact hitter, but almost no power for a first baseman. I could reel off about 10 other first basemen who are about the same and don't need to be in the game. He is almost a clone of Keith Hernandez, minus the MVP. It's not that he sucks, but I don't think he was ever the best player on any team he was on, so I don't think anyone outside the Chicago faithful, or small handful of Arizona fans from his final years would be interested.

"nothing like giving up a hit on a ball in the dirt bc a 5'2 450 lb guy with wild features has max contact and power then 85 speed too."

That guy took me downtown the other day. I took my lumps and moved on. I am thankfully showing signs of improvement after a week of being destroyed online.

"nothing like giving up a hit on a ball in the dirt bc a 5'2 450 lb guy with wild features has max contact and power then 85 speed too."

That guy took me downtown the other day. I took my lumps and moved on. I am thankfully showing signs of improvement after a week of being destroyed online.

It's not just bad players. I am probably one of the worst hitters in the show, and I played a guy whose roster was better than mine, and he had a lot more experience than me. I can however pitch very well and kept it at least competitive for about 5 innings before he broke it open. Then he began bunt cheesing, steal cheesing (which I was able to deal with), but for some reason he even tried field cheesing.

By that he kept making it look like he wasn't going to catch a ball and try to get me to go for the next base. Back when I was about 12 my friends and I all did that to each other in the days before online play so that didn't work, and I think he just wanted to see if he could finally break me and make me rage quit by watching every possible replay. I managed to hang on and play the full game, but I was more frustrated at this person's actions than the actual loss.

I do wish SDS would actually take action against toxic players, but I bet that if you did enough research, the toxic players are the ones who spend the most real world money to get players they are too lazy to grind for. I don't even bother reporting because after a short time I have calmed down and play offline mode to see if I can practice to use what I learned from my being beaten.

I just don't get it. He was clearly going to win and we both knew it. Why turn into a [censored] after you know you have the win and bonuses in the bag?

I don't have the show 22, but I know in 20 and 21 there are some future stars tied to unlocking 2nd and 3rd level progress on player programs. I think they rate them high to make them better able to help in that program. But as others have said, they probably are doing this to generate interest in the next generation of MLB players, and how many times can we see the same past superstars run out there?

IRONMAN "I've noticed that during online ranked game play the weaker the opponent the more susceptible you are to losing." Sorry to disappoint you, but as someone who has played the game back when RTTS was called "career" and your only options were quick game, career and franchise. I only a week or so ago began playing online, and even then, only because I want to unlock certain cards.

I am the guy you WANT to play, because after decades of only playing against the CPU I have to learn to adjust to game play speed glitches, human error, toxic players and bunt/steal cheesers. I sometimes get rattled, and I have played the occasionally good game, but I can honestly say I have NEVER beaten a team with a much better roster or much more experience.

Fact of the matter is I am the one who has to learn to adjust, and from what I have read it seems like you need to as well.

OK. I actually turned off cross platform because all the toxic freezers all seemed to be from XBOX users. I don't doubt they exist on PS, but I have had significant improvement in playing by not cross platforming. Oh well, I will settle for enjoying a good online experience.

I just got done playing someone and wanted to let him know I enjoyed playing him. His pitching on the borders was absolutely pinpoint and it was a good game other than my lack of hitting.

Ok. I was hoping that was the answer. The other guy played clean and considering how much better his roster was I am thankful I kept it close.

I can only help with #1. Are you having this issue on ALL throws, or just some throws? I sometimes will hold onto the button when trying to turn a double play and the relay throw never happens. If that is what happens, try not to hold the button when still chasing after the ball until just as you get it. If it isn't that then I won't be of much help here.

Why do I suspect someone spent real world money on packs and wanted to get a bunch of stubs from flipping? I mean how many times have we all seen that 58 rated guy on a team and the market for it is more than the 85 rated guy near the top of the teams rankings?

I have just started playing online after a long time just playing RTTS. My question is because I played someone and during the game, everything went at normal speed, except when I pitched. By this I mean as soon as I released the ball the game would go into super slow motion. By super slow I mean you could almost see the frame by frame movement of the pitcher, and actually count the stiches on the ball and see the rotation.

As soon as the batter began to swing everything went back to normal speed. Is this a glitch or just someone cheating? This is the first time I have ever seen this. I don't mind that I lost, and I knew I would because I was only playing my second game, and my opponent had played over 500. That and because I kind of suck at hitting. I can pitch very well and can play defense, so at the end of the day I only lost 4-1 and was not unhappy with anything except my chasing pitches at times.

If it is a glitch no big deal, and I will just remember it going forward, but if it is cheating is there a way to counter this? I won't waste my time reporting because I know they won't actually do anything.