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@lucas8181 said in Who do you use at Catcher?:

@turtleopolis said in Who do you use at Catcher?:

@lucas8181 said in Who do you use at Catcher?:

@CHOW88 said in Who do you use at Catcher?:

@ChiefChad said in Who do you use at Catcher?:

@CHOW88 said in Who do you use at Catcher?:

@ChiefChad said in Who do you use at Catcher?:

Just put my CAP there, got Ernie at short now.

Me too, how is Ernie for you? Expensive card... He's 2 for 6 for me, 1 hr 2 rbis... Hr off kluber lol..

Ernie is a beast, his defense is kinda weird, not as athletic as the CAP buts he gets the job done.

I saw that - first game he made a weird error, never seen it before.. just kind of dropped the ball or fumbled it on a light grounder... and he's... "gold"??

Yount is far superior to Banks, and he's free. I'd grind away, and make some stubs.

How so? He isn’t 140k which is a plus, but the only thing that seems better to me is his diamond defense.

You've only had 6 ab's. You'll see soon enough.

Except I’m not the one who said I had 6 ab’s with Banks. Question still stands

lower the RNG to the bare minimum and we might have an enjoyable ballgame again. Guys who can only generate 2-3 hard hits per game and still win, shouldn't be happening against better players.

@DeckerCurtis2002 said in Mysterious Pack:

Hmm, okay, so it makes me wonder if it's a valid market investment to buy these guys up when they come out, and then sell them for much more later.

Yes it is in fact is a way to become fabulously stub wealthy. But not these specific cards anymore, go and look for the Program rewards and buy those gold rewards at close to quicksell value (low risk) and sit and wait, most all of them will rise dramatically at some point this summer

The Torii Hunter card is pretty good out there in CF, he is the reward for the Twins collection. They don't have diamonds so it's a relatively easy team to finish.

@King_Dome30 said in Event says "6" Innings but it might as well be 1 inning:

Only problem I have is all star difficulty. Idk why but it seems harder to get a W than in HOF difficulty.

Yeah all-star difficulty is so dumb.

Yeah, I use equipment. If I start outplaying my attributes, I can always up the difficulty or play with sliders.

What little success I have had, I used the contact hit to get runners on base, and then waited for a slugger to use the normal hit.

@aaronjw76 said in Got 40k stubs:

@PAinPA said in Got 40k stubs:

Only buy standard packs at beginning when even bronze are almost 1k, now is the time to buy players from market.

Market is jacked up. Now is NOT the time to buy players from the market lol

lol... i made 30k today... there are some pretty good margins out there today.

Yes I’ve also had a few times where my OF has decided to lock on and attempt the catch, Well away from the actual path of the ball 🙈 my OF always can move after their ugly reaching animation as well

Just a heads up, if you call up or trade for a pitcher you are going to have to pitch the next game with them. So if you do that with a starter your going to have to pitch the next game

You can twice, but you get a message scolding you.
On the third dashboard you will not be able to earn Team Affinity points.

@Hikes83 said in Final Showdowns:

@halfbutt said in Final Showdowns:

AL Central is easier if you get Matt Boyd maybe. Kopech is no joke.

Plus the AL central has so many power bats

True, but it makes no difference when Kopech throws 102mph dots at over 120 pitches thrown.

Hopefully you guys do better than I did. I hope I get Matt Boyd next time.

@DeckerCurtis2002 said in Is it possible for the fastball to be an effective pitch?:

@eatyum said in Is it possible for the fastball to be an effective pitch?:

"If we're talking about a player that has good plate discipline and knows how to time up a fastball, it just seems like any fastball in any part of the zone just gets crushed."

But isn't that kind of expected? If someone knows how to time a fastball and has good discipline, it's only a logical conclusion it will get crushed no?

Don't get me wrong, off speed does usually work better, slurves and sliders especially, and maybe fastballs should work better, but if someone knows how to time one, I don't think it's an unexpected outcome that they crush it.

I tend to agree with you, I kinda thought the same thing, but then what do I do? Never throw fastballs? That seems kinda cheesy/dirty to me...kinda goes against all my baseball sense. Just like I won't throw a sinker high in the zone even though its an effective way to pitch just because...it's just..like no...i dont do that.

I wouldn't say don't throw a fastball, I'd say surprise them with it, lull them into a pattern of off speed and then hit them with the fastball on the hands. That's how I pitch when I can't use my fastball as much as I want.

I always go power. I prefer more vision in my power guys so I dont go galo or judge. Actually removed judge this year from my lineup, for some reason up and in is hard to hit with him because the strikezone is so freaking huge for him. My tip is when you face him pound up and do not leave anything over plate low. That's where I did all my damage with him. Plenty of power guys 50+ vision to use

@BalsamicArrow88 said in The People vs SDS (funny):

You didn't mention how terrible the pack odds are. I'm not even trying to be that guy but MUT was better this year and thats saying alot considering how awful it was.

At least the Show tells you your odds, I know not to open packs because i have 2% chance of getting a diamond.

It's just the fact you've got to control the analog better. Whenever a pitch comes down in the zone people will generally flick the left analog all the way done and that's why they will get under a lot of balls. But the best players can control how far they go down, usually with control freaks, and hit bombs.

The people who want a skill gap are talking about Online play, not offline play.

That said, My issue is that they have essentially created more All or Nothing modes, which is ironic considering that they made a big deal about the fact that they listened to fans and removed the All or Nothing aspect of March to October.

Showdowns and Player programs are All or Nothing when it comes to Program and Affinity points. You have to finish Showdown to earn points. You have to finish all the programs and, most likely, beat the CPU on all star to earn the Player program points. The only way to counter these all or nothing modes is to essentially spend your stubs to complete collections.

We will see how it goes but if they continue down this path all year then this may be one of those years where I retire the game before the end of April.