Yeah the punishment is them walking you.

SDS: We would like to announce MLB the Show 20, it is much improved vs 19 with the addition of perfect perfect, showdown, increased emphasis on team affinity, and other quality of life changes.

Game gets released...

The People: LOVE the game, but there's a few issues.
SDS: Ok, let us know what you want fixed.

The People: Pitch speeds are too slow.
SDS: Oh you want pitch speeds to be faster, (evil laugh), no problem we can do that for you. How about all-star that feels like legend?

The People: There's too many home runs.
SDS: Hey everyone, the people said less home runs. (evil laugh again) Toggle the switch to activate negative exit velos?

The People: Pitchers don't hit their spots on perfect release.
SDS: But, but, we just added perfect perfect, and we need the noobs to feel good about themselves by giving them some pitches they can hit...sooo, we're gonna have to keep that feature, ahem, bug, sorry.

The People: we don't like showdown because it's too all or nothing.
SDS: Oh, so we'll just reduce the rewards that way its not as appealing so maybe some people will just ignore it.

The People: There are a lot of issues with fielding and outfielders not locking on.
SDS: Oh, you want better fielding. We can certainly give the CPU better fielding. That's no problem at all. I hope you enjoy Yordan Alvarez making diving catches.

Hope you all enjoy this little bit of humor. Enjoy your day!

@BIGWEB52 said in Yea I know I’m a complainer:

I don’t think the game is bad . I think it just needs a good patch . I think hitting and pitching are terrible right now , but People get so obsessed with there contact and pci placement. Baseball is a game where even the best players in the world fail 7 out of 10 times at the dish . You should NOT get a hit or HR every time you get “good-good” or “perfect-good “ or whatever . This is a SIM game , not arcade . The only thing that would be worse then the state of the game right now , would be if every “good-good” got you a hit . Jesus every game would be 23-27 with 35 hits a side and take 2 hours to do . Yes the game should reward good contact but it should be rewarding it 25-35% of the time .

I completely disagree with this. The reason MLB players fail 7 out of 10 times is because they don't get "good good" with their swing. If they got "good good" every time they would do significantly better than a hit every 3 out of 10 at-bats. MLB players fail 70% of the time because they either mess up their timing or they don't square up the baseball. However when a hitter squares up a 96 mph pitch it NEVER leaves the bat at 85 mph.

Wtf is this thread?

No player progression, no draft, so basically in a 12 team league, the twelve teams that were chosen are the only teams whose players are in the league which means that we're limited to the same 480 players for the duration of the league.

So obviously some pitches are better than others in different locations, counts, situations, etc. If i want a ground ball throw a splitter/changeup, slider away is good strikeout pitch vs RHB...but it feels like sinkers are just automatically the best pitch in the game. Someone could throw a sinker 100% of their pitches and I would probably lose. And I'm not some scrub either, I can make DS/CS consistently, and especially on HOF pitch speeds, a high sinker looks like a 110 mph curveball, it's ridiculous. And to make it worse, SDS for some reason decided to give almost every pitcher they release a sinker. Really SDS?

And yes, I am writing this after losing a game to a guy who pitched blood diamond Oswalt and spammed high sinkers, and if I ever tried sitting on high sinkers, you have to swing so early that he mixed in a few curveballs and I was kinda screwed.

So I go back to my title: do other people feel the same way as me that sinkers kinda ruin the game experience? Like there are other pitches that are difficult to hit, but their realistic, but a sinker just feels unrealistic...

EDIT: I just want to clarify that I'm not saying remove sinkers from the game because I dislike the pitch, that would be unrealistic; I'm saying that playing this game would be more fun if sinkers were banned because its a BROKEN pitch, particularly when thrown high in the strike zone, and clearly SDS seem to have no intention to fix it. It's kinda gotten to a point where every pitcher I face throws a sinker, and most people spam sinkers high in the zone, and I'm kind of sick of it because its so broken.

I'm seeing a ton of threads about people having so much difficulty with Showdown and I honestly don't understand why they find it so difficult.

Would I be wrong to think that there are just as many people out there like me who are genuinely enjoying the mode and concept and are happy with the medium but not too difficult level of difficulty?

Its 10 seconds long. If its that annoying to watch 10 seconds of a home run, you're probably taking the game too seriously so I really don't mind.

Yes but in real life players improve/age, and there is a draft and a constant influx of new players coming into the league. As far as I can tell, from custom leagues, not one player will ever be in the league that wasn't in the league on day 1.

I went into an event game and hit 3 HRs with Yankees, which was one of the Granderson missions for 10 points, so after I hit the 3 HRs, I quit out and I didn't get the points. So I went into another game and got 3 xbhs with Yankees and didn't quit out (assuming that the reason the mission didn't count is because I quit) so I finished the game and I still had no progress on the mission. Events should count as online, correct? I know something similar is going on with Eckersley/other evolution cards missions, so maybe its a huge DD bug, but has anyone else had this issue with Granderson?

I've looked online all over and it seems like there's no way when I restart RTTS to just choose a brand new set of 3 pitches? I have to gradually replace the ones from my last save when they come up? Its not a dealbreaker if thats the case but it is tedious, and I'd like to get a screwball and its gonna be hard to find a teammate that can teach me a screwball.

@lakers2008_mlbts said in 6th inning boss # 1:

@dlpme1977_psn said in 6th inning boss # 1:

Looks like Eric Davis 1987 year 37HR/50SB

^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ that would be an L. I think it's Mantle, Pedro and Ruth. If Puckett is one of the choices between Pedro and Ruth only Twins fans would pick him. If on the other hand it's Mantle. I can see 33% of players will pick one of the 3 choices evenly.

It won't be Mantle since they wouldn't put 2 Yankees inside 1 program.

Kirby Puckett is another common guess i've seen so far

Just moved to a new place, hooked up my PS4 and have been getting challenge failed every single time i try to queue (have tried BR, Events, RS) but everything else works fine. Is the challenge failed issue back again or is it just me? And any suggestions on how to fix it?

@twisted-_-tea-_psn said in Shippett:

Shippett on HOF rn feels like rookie on coors. It’s truly insane how everything leaves in that stadium. PCIs seem massive right now as well. Must just be really good cards playing as they should but it feels off.

Also to comment on the actual topic, I am currently in a 10-10 tie game at shippett on all star after 8 innings....

@untchable704_psn said in Shippett:

I don’t see much skill involved in HOF. It’s literally swing and pray unless somebody is throw less than 98. Just my opinion tho. Kudos to whoever enjoys that. We move back down hope some of y’all catch these wins while I do.

That's kinda the point though...it creates a skill gap between the players that just swing and pray and those that actually know how to hit at that difficulty. I quite like that it is difficult.

Right now I'm still using 87 POTM Sanchez from the classics pack, but he's not really living up to the job, so I'm curious to know who you've had success with.

I know CAP is a good option but I have him in CF right now and I really don't want to move him, and Posey I could take at Diamond 1 but i'm only at Gold 30 so it'd be a little while.

Suggestions? Reviews on Torre, Kendall, Wieters, etc?

@ItsAllGoodMn_89 said in This game would be more fun if SDS removed sinkers from the game:

Maybe you should practice reading and hitting the sinker. The outcome will come out better for you.

I recognize that the pitch is hittable if you sit on it, but don't you think it sucks that you have to concentrate everything to be able to hit a pitch that is unrealistic to have so much break high in the strike zone?

So obviously some pitches are better than others in different locations, counts, situations, etc. If i want a ground ball throw a splitter/changeup, slider away is good strikeout pitch vs RHB...but it feels like sinkers are just automatically the best pitch in the game. Someone could throw a sinker 100% of their pitches and I would probably lose. And I'm not some scrub either, I can make DS/CS consistently, and especially on HOF pitch speeds, a high sinker looks like a 110 mph curveball, it's ridiculous. And to make it worse, SDS for some reason decided to give almost every pitcher they release a sinker. Really SDS?

And yes, I am writing this after losing a game to a guy who pitched blood diamond Oswalt and spammed high sinkers, and if I ever tried sitting on high sinkers, you have to swing so early that he mixed in a few curveballs and I was kinda screwed.

So I go back to my title: do other people feel the same way as me that sinkers kinda ruin the game experience? Like there are other pitches that are difficult to hit, but their realistic, but a sinker just feels unrealistic...

EDIT: I just want to clarify that I'm not saying remove sinkers from the game because I dislike the pitch, that would be unrealistic; I'm saying that playing this game would be more fun if sinkers were banned because its a BROKEN pitch, particularly when thrown high in the strike zone, and clearly SDS seem to have no intention to fix it. It's kinda gotten to a point where every pitcher I face throws a sinker, and most people spam sinkers high in the zone, and I'm kind of sick of it because its so broken.

Yeah asking for reviews 4 hours after release is definitely gonna get you some solid opinions.

"OMG 7 for 10 with Mike Schmidt he's a cheat code overpowered glitch"
"0 for 10 so far terrible swing low exit velos no pop"

"one start complete game 20 K's and he even hit a homer"
"pitched 2 innings gave up 7 runs...terrible no control"

You want stuff like that?