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I remember reading on several posts in March/April about pitching RTTS players having serious issues with bugs, training points, perks, amount of pitches etc.
has anybody started a new pitcher RTTS recently and if so, have the issues been fixed? I remember reading it took forever to upgrade bc the values were way too high for so many different attribute options.

@siberiatigercub_psn
I’ve been playing RTTS since MLB the Show released their first title, this (team performance) has always been a problem. However, that’s baseball. I’m cursed to being a Mariners fan so my team is especially bad, but I think the focal point of the problem if you choose to look at it, is what moves the GMs make for the team you’re on. Year after year of RTTS and within each career I have in each RTTS title, I notice trades that make no sense for my team. I.e, last year the Mariners signed Judge for a record deal, but it absolutely gutted every other star on the team in terms of available payroll. No way in real life a GM would sign 1 guy to lose the other 8 starters ya know? I will say this year has been better, but still lost a lot of guys through free agency. After one season (so end of 2026 going into 2027) the only Mariners that were resigned (or already had a contract) by management were Julio Rodriguez, Cal Raleigh, Bryan Woo, Logan Gilbert, George Kirby and Josh Naylor. The next season the GM traded several of those names away for prospects despite us being about 10 games over .500.
It’s not necessarily that it’s predetermined, I just think it’s CPU logic. It’s computing 1s and 0s assigning values to players and it makes trades and signs/releases players on that rather than considering what it does for the teams success

@StinkyMcPooter_XBL
Usually it’s easier to hit like that (lot of home runs and good contact) on lower difficulties with high attributes in contact, power, vision, clutch, plate discipline.
Hitting streak only requires one hit per game, so you could go 1-4, 1-5 even 1-6 every game for two seasons and still have a crazy long hitting streak.

I haven’t noticed that.. what system you running? Might be an isolated problem based on the lack of people chiming in with the same. Internet working good and CPU performance where it should be? Running other apps or things in the background while playing?

I have a beard and I’m not understanding what everybody is talking about? But I’ll share what worked for me: I put my face (and neck area I suppose) directly facing to my bedroom light, when I did the scan, I put my phone below the direct line of sight between my head to the light while doing the scan. My face was looking more towards the ceiling than the level horizon of the room. Best I can offer, hope it ends up working for yall…

@StonyHillz_PSN

That makes more sense, I play veteran and all star usually

Has anybody walked 80 times in a season in RTTS before?

Getting 80 base on balls in a season even while playing all 162 games seems certifiably impossible. One walk every other game? That’s a lot of faith in the CPU to throw that many balls

Something I’d like to see in 2027 RTTS is an achievement or +1500 hall of fame status for being the first rookie in history to join the 40/40 Club. I just did it and I was wondering if there was gonna be a special cinematic for it like hitting 20/30/40 games of a hit streak or homers, but there wasn’t. No big deal, but it would be cool to be rewarded for things like that. Julio’s massive contract with the Mariners had in part to do with the fact he and Mike Trout are the only rookies to join the 30/30 club in MLB history

@tel_megiddo7_PSN

I’m on the opposite side, the strike zone has always — in the rules — been any part of the ball that touches the zone. It makes for fantastic consistency with where the zone actually is. It allows you to challenge the calls that are bad and if you can’t recognize the zone, I’m sorry to say you just gotta keep working at getting used to the real zone. There’s no reason we should have to deal with 30-40% of a baseball touching the zone and being called a ball as it’s been for years in past games.

Yeah I actually got it in the minors. Maybe your RTTS is bugged unfortunately @modad_mlbts

Wanted to pipe in to say I’m still experiencing this. My best takes, sometimes even challenges with ABS that I win, are never rewarded as a great take or even a good take

I haven’t had that this year yet bc I’m still a scrub, but in past games I’ve had that exact thing with both the ASG and Home Run Derby. I’ve literally had it say I won the home run derby in July without it even giving me the option to participate

@Rhaegar83_PSN

I definitely noticed the cost of tokens went way up. I was only two or three seasons into my RTTS on MLB 25 last week and there were several attributes in the 70s that were between 6-10 tokens to upgrade. But now in MLB 26 I have my AA player in the 50s attributes and several are costing 5-10 tokens already

@Deadmankillin_PSN

I guess I kinda thought it was going to work like last year’s version with just more variety. How it’s working now, it kinda makes several of the perks not worth the coins. If I can only boost the perk about 25% or 33% of the options listed, why would I bother ya know? I’m hoping this is something that can be changed easily to allow more variety and to upgrade within the perk to the max options. It makes the game more in-depth and adds other fun to hitting fielding and baserunning

To those that have spent good coin on perks:
Is the perk system different this year than you were expecting? I think I had a different understanding of how it was going to work and so I’m confused if it’s a glitch/bug or if this is how it was designed.

For example, the perk “Life Line” has three options to upgrade: the count options like 0-2, 2 strikes, batter behind, any count; bases empty, runner on 1B, runner in scoring position, any runner situation; and 0 out, 0 or 1 out, 1 or 2 outs, and any out situation. Then at the bottom of the screen there is the contact boost 30%, 40%, or 60%; plus an option of adding exit velocity boost, drag bunt boost or decreasing fielder reaction time.

I thought this meant if I decided to upgrade the out situations from 0 out all the way up to any out situation, that would count as 1 upgrade of the 4 upgrade slots on the perk. But it appears to count as all 4 upgrade slots thus rendering all of the other perk options unusable? Which to me seems like backwards progression from last years perk system.

Does anybody know if that’s how it was designed or if it’s just bugged at the moment?

@H_NGM_N30_PSN

Did you get it to work? I followed other’s instructions and just kept spamming it and got in several times until it turned out perfectly how I wanted it. I’m sure it’s just an error code backend somewhere with how many people use the app.

I’d like to thank everybody who commented on this topic so far. I thought I got some weird error code but you guys all summed it up for me pretty well. This is the first time ever that I’ve gotten an XP cap. Which I’ll say is good and bad for all the reasons you all described. I can’t grind like other people bc I work a very odd work schedule that fights my other responsibilities before gaming. So for me it sucks there is a cap, but I guess that means today was the first time I was able to sit down and play for a while which is the case.

I was maybe 60-70 games into my rookie MLB season, and I had “back soreness” that I got pulled from a game. The on screen blurb said I was injured and would have to sit out a few games. It loads me back to the menu, and I wasn’t injured at all. I’ve played every day since then but the game will not allow me to play consecutive games. At the end of each game, it forces me to load back into the menu and start the next game in the season. It’s been like this for a week of games and I don’t know how to fix it.
Anybody experience this and have a fix?
I have tried exiting the mode and restarting game/console, let it sit for a day and came back, nothing so far has worked. It basically is ending my desire to play it having to load into the menus every game and go through all the buttons and post game “ratings” boxes