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I don't mind a player that earns foul balls, you tip something in the PCI, all the power to you. What I mind is when I throw 4 straight bangers in the dirt, where the hitter is able to foul them all off despite bad PCI placement and bad timing (when in real life, no shot), then SDS finally auto corrects the next pitch and it gets blasted to orbit with early timing.

Oh and yes, I thought about throwing a fastball sure, but those can be reacted to pretty easily. Considering how the strike zone is literally white to white on the plate, with none of the black getting called, good luck sneaking a fastball by people.

@FollowThaLeeder said in Three Suggestions to Make RS Fair:

I want to preface this by saying this won't make RS realistic, but it will make it FAIR, which is what I think everyone is begging for at the moment. This is also only in the sphere of hitting. Fielding requires more than a few absolutes in my opinion, coming from a guy who managed to give up 5 unearned runs on 2 outfield errors last night in a 5-2 loss, but I digress.

Remove check swinging entirely.
I know it's a feature of baseball, and it's awesome that the game attempts to reflect realism through this method. However, it's out of control. Dudes are able to hold up on checks 4, 5 , 6 pitches in a row. If it can't be super realistic and balanced, don't have it in my opinion.

Any swing at a pitch out of the zone is a miss.
BuT mY SkIlL gAp. Trust me dawg, nobody is catching up to 102 elevated in real life. It's just not happening. The same is true of the likes of a nasty 12-6 hook from Roy Oswald or Michael Kopech's slider. No. Shot. Removing this may result in more strikeouts, but it will also make people be rewarded for being patient.

Any timing that is NOT perfect/good/just early or just late results in an out 95%+ of the time.
If you want to make timing a part of this game, actually reward it. Giving up Early/Okay home runs is frustrating, and frankly it makes you feel icky when you are the one rewarded.

Anyways, these are my thoughts. Feel free to rip them apart, add on, agree, edit, etc. Thanks for reading.

The better player that game wins upwards of 95% of the time. Thats pretty fair.

Check swings are annoying. But if you arent fully committing by smashing x and just tap it, why is that an issue? Also some guys with no discipline cannot check swing.

Your first point wasnt bad. This one is awful. You want me to just whiff on a change up half an inch out of the zone?

Seeing how half the Okays this year should be good, i dont really agree with this one either.