It’s way better. I only threw a handful of “perfects” the entire game. I wasn’t cheesed to death by contact swing, and if you don’t know how to pitch sequence, you’re gonna get touched up. This is the way it should be.

The non pci hits. The pci square ups that are pop outs. Throwing it three feet out of the zone and guys still connecting. The unrealistic sinkers. First year player, and I gotta say this is arcade trash. It rewards people who just smash buttons and don’t even understand baseball. I’m so sad that it took my three months to realize this game is no better than madden or 2k. Disappointed.

Can we maybe develop a DD mode that isn’t filled with ridiculous CAP pitchers and broken deliveries?

Why even bother. Just so broken and unrealistic.

That’s got nothing to do with how absolutely broken, untouchable this card is. It is a free win in ranked for anyone who knows even basic pitching. The competitive balance is completely out of whack with this disappearing sinker garbage and they need to get back to reality and do something about 102 mph sinkers for 120 pitches in green energy.

Time to retire this game. I loved playing online for a few months, but it’s just the same meta cheese team every time. Cabrera is so unbelievably unrealistic, it just ruins this experience.

I go entire games without throwing a strike and still manage to give up 10+ hits over 9 innings. This is inexcusable. If you swing at every single pitch, you should not be rewarded consistently. It’s absurd that if you get the timing down of a repetitive video game, you are excused from actually playing baseball.

This card should have way less stamina for it to be balanced. Keep the pitching stats? Fine, but there is no chance, NO CHANCE, anyone can serve that heat up for 120 pitches. It’s completely broken and anyone who says otherwise it’s kidding themselves. You have a giga second to respond to a pitch that hops like off speed and has zero trajectory that you can catch up to. Your only choice is to guess. Sinkers don’t move like that in real life and when you’re trying to play competitively, and see pitches and put a good foot forward, stuff like this just ruins the experience. Too unrealistic, too easily exploited for basically a guaranteed dominant performance.

It’s not about winning and losing, it’s about a balanced competitive landscape. This card is hell on earth and it’s a free one that takes zero advanced knowledge to be dominant. A hitter with 125s across the board still doesn’t neutralize the insanity that is 102mph sinkers that move.

If you use Cabrera, you don’t respect the game or other people. He is broken, everyone knows it, and at this point it’s just a [censored] move to use him.

As far as I can tell, the all star has superior stats and more quirks. The live series is maxed on power, but inferior everywhere else, including fielding. Is there any reason to use the live? Even with inside edge the card wouldn’t necessarily be better stat wise.

These suggestions simply do not work. It’s impossible to strike people out consistently even when they have zero discipline. I don’t play non stop, but I play enough, and this is the same thing over and over. Sometimes I win, sometimes I lose, but the consistent quality is that I don’t throw a single strike the entire game and still I’m giving up way too many hits.

Still waiting for someone to tell me how to beat people who swing at every pitch. I go entire games without throwing a pure strike, and still cannot escape the wild, swing at every pitch, touch everything style of most ranked players. This is hall of fame difficulty

Im 800+ rated at the moment, and I struck out 18 times vs 99 randy.

Whenever I see p5 every other card, I know they’re swinging every pitch

No point against the free swinging losers in this community.

Why even bother. Just so broken and unrealistic.

I go entire games without throwing a strike and still manage to give up 10+ hits over 9 innings. This is inexcusable. If you swing at every single pitch, you should not be rewarded consistently. It’s absurd that if you get the timing down of a repetitive video game, you are excused from actually playing baseball.

I constantly play guys with p5 everything, that swing at every single pitch and not only don’t whiff, they tank the ball. Why is this play style rewarded? This is the whole point of baseball and it just becomes an arcade game, even at HoF ranks.

And still cannot find a way to prevent people from hitting. This game is just rubbish. This is not baseball.