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You have to go into the egg program and collect it. Then it will give you the xp in the inning program. It does not however show a check as completed but you or well at least I did get my CP for the inning program

@MiJuJuKaLa_PSN said:

We used to be rewarded for good pitching, but no longer. Pitches on the black are easier to hit than pitches down the middle now.

Look at the batting averages of World Series players. The top 300 have batting averages over .500

I would suggest you look closer to your current rating. My average is .325-.350 @ 810 rating and most are right around me. Judge off the 20 closest people to your rating. The only thing dead about pitching is how bad and inconsistent the "perfect" umpires are. I've literally thrown 4 pitches in the same spot with the pitches overlapping and had strike calls and ball calls as well as so far 21 pitches that have been 70% or more in the zone called a ball.

I've adjusted mine depending on how I'm feeling/reacting that day or if I switch my controllers/P rings. Usually side at I wanna say 85-90% max but on my game sir pro 7 I have it at almost 60%.

@W1LDB1LL01_XBL said:

I was playing ranked yesterday and was hitting the meter on the dot every time and the game was glitching and sending my pitches straight into the dirt. I ended up walking like 8 guys.

Is there a fix for this? Or is it just a penalty for using meter pitching

Unfortunately this has now been an issue since 25. While it isn't as bad as last year it is still happening. I'm not an expert but I've noticed it mostly on either bad connection games or at high visual fields with alot going on in the stands. I would just suggest trying to pick lower visual extras fields. Whish I had a better fix but it's the only thing I have found that helps.

@I23SAVAGE23I_XBL said:

Hard to believe they took a step backward on this. Throwing in a pickle is as unresponsive as ever and people are exploiting it. Guys like PCA can steal second without a lead on pitchouts, even third base.

Gross

Thats not 100% accurate. Right now you have really 2 choices for Catherine. Either pick a cather that has high hitting but low as hell pop time and arm, or go with a low hitting non switch hitter who has high arm strength, accuracy, and pop time. Then you can mitigate the steals for some people, bit then your sacrificing the hitting. I will say this IS what I like about power creep. If the could just fix the hitting so 40% of the perfect swings aren't line/fly outs, the slider shrinkage lie, and the perfect umpire lie. I would really feel like the game made a step forward. But yeah here we are lol.

@Onix_Savage22_PSN said:

@Rhyno1986_XBL I normally do this to play at a level I can control have been getting on the unlucky side of this lately. Opponents have been much closer to the higher number then the lower one.

Yeah unfortunately you will get that sometimes. I do when I run into 1000 rates people on a skid. Then the blow me out like high school team and get their confidence back up lol.

That's okay I got pretty okay at hitting him last 2 years. Now Kersaw is still giving me fits, thats balloon arm out of the stretch is freaking wierd. Just can't pick it up.

@Sarge1387_PSN said:

@sds_joek_psn please take this one to the team-

You’ve got to allow us to sell dupes of diamond jerseys even after we’ve collected them. If we choose a no sell reward out of a pack? That’s on us. If we get it as a log in…that’s different.

I’d like to give SDS the benefit of the doubt here and believe it’s a bug…but I really can’t. Please at least consider switching this back, otherwise there’s really zero point to the “community” market, just have a full on store instead.

I agree I've brought this up before but I don't think anything will change. Wish we could at least exchange X amount of jerseys for a standard like we can for mini series banners.

My pack luck this year has been amazing. I've pulled Judge, 2 Dumpers, 2 Soto, Ketel, 2 Skenes after buying him, Trout, 4 Trea Turner, and a bunch of other purple diamond. But I understand some people do have bad luck. 25 was horrible I don't think I ever pulled a high live series, so had to keep selling ALL my other diamond pack pulls tell I completed live series collection.

@DeleteyourTTVBTW_MLBTS said:

Everybody just got packs from Weekend classic and everybody got the same 4 WBC diamonds worth 3k that they already collected. Now everybody gained stubs but nobody actually got the good cards. Just Severino and Quintana again and again.

Thats not tue I pulled a Nick Costeonoes and pulled a Skenes from my standards. It's all just dumb luck.

@SpecialFrosty_PSN said:

I know mini seasons is worth it for regular packs. And I’m talking the classic/regualr. Not threads or WBC. I’d rather risk my chance on classic then do WBC for 1500 quick sell diamonds. My question is, 2 weeks ago running through mini seasons, it almost felt like the packs were juiced. I did it twice last week, got nothing of value from them. Now I’m seeing on twitter that juiced packs may be back

Anyone get crazy pull from the classic mini seasons packs they got the past couple days?

With all due respect always play how you want and have fun. But running the WBC mini season is way faster then regular. You can skip 1 game of your first 4 and only have to win 6 to get the 10 pack plus 1 ballin, then make sure to get your 1 save with a WBC pitcher for 3 more, and as you keep grinding you'll get more packs for extra base hits, runs score, and hits. Only crappy thing is you'll end up with a ton of WBC jersey packs you can't sell. But this method so far I am able to run 3 full tournaments in the time it takes to run 1 7 game mini season since you actually end up playing 16 games I believe.

You'll go through dry spells. Ive been pretty lucky, but had a dry spell on packs yesterday when I opened 90 standard and only got 1 diamond jersey and a Jacob Wilson. Just keep grinding the pack luck will come.

@SISCO2000_PSN said:

Ok i will say i am not good at online against other players but i keep on trying but if you run in to players that are hitting every single ball i throw outside the strike zone in the gaps it's getting harder and harder to keep going back to online play and not to mention how they match you up with sweaty players while i am just a casual online player.

Not sure if you are aware but you can stop your rating meter from going up. So for example for me I am usually a 700-850 rated player so as my opponent search bar rating goes up i can press left on the D-pad of the controller so it doesn't go any higher the 899. You can do this as well so that you will get matched up more often with players closer to your rating. If this helped I'm happy and you can look me up on twitch tv @rhyno86

@TripleH-4481_PSN said:

The CPU is flat out obnoxious to play the vast majority of the time. Between the eagle eyed hitters not swinging at pitches right on or just off the corners, fielders making diving plays and covering way too much ground, and pitchers dotting up the zone like Greg Maddux it can be an extremely annoying grind.

All of this happens even with common players on low difficulty levels which is ridiculous. If they were diamond players on high difficulty I could understand it but that is far from the case. I know it’s by design to make the game “challenging” but it’s super redundant and slows the grind to a snails pace.

Well I will say they have improved cpu vision this year, everything else is pretty similar to every other entry. Pitching against the computer is pretty simple all the way up to legend. Through fast balls high and inside and breaking pitches away and while sometimes they will get an obnoxious amount of fouls 8-10 times it ends in a strike out. Now goat you actually have to pitch like it's against an oppent because the cpu will pick up on pitching tendency. As far as diving plays it's always like this.

Lol your math ain't mathin there killer. You forgot that you get xp for EVERYTHING in every DD game mode and RTTS. Plus all the missions, collection stuff, and other stuff. It literally can be done in a week if you play well enough and around 2-3 hours a day. Not really that hard at all.

@GooseOnEm_PSN said:

I’m a casual player that caps at DS sometime CS but I’ve only ever made WS once. This year I made DS in the first season and was looking forward to some competitive weekend classic games, but instead I get matched up with absolute sweats who are WS players, got a high league for Weekend Classic, and then tanked to play your average joes like me.

Such [censored]. They should have to play people in their league.

They did fix it this year but remember that yoi can get to WS in CoOp and get a banner. So seems like some players are just sandbagging to stay lower this year. While making sure to get to WS in CoOp this way they get 2 WS packs.

@SpawnOfDitka_XBL said:

Hold on. I got up to 576. Then got my a.. kicked in last night and dropped down to 420. Still in silver 1 500 to 600 weekend classic pool. Unless im playing lower players now. I only played one game and he was in the 500 rankings. Which is what it is supposed to be. I should only be playing people rated 500 to 599. If this is not the case. Thats not right. Bad

For WC regardless of whether you win alot or lose alot you stay in the division you made it too. So if you made to silver 1 even if you win enough to reach 800 you will continue to play in silver 1 on All-star. There are alot of player who abuse this who are probably normally 750-850 rated players whi just want the extra rewards.

Sds says they are aware of the situation, but can't go into detail on how they are handling and investigating it. This seems to kind of be a cop out though. If they know thus is happening they would just post EVERYWHERE on all media that they are taking action against the players guilty of it.
To answer the other questions, people are using a glitch in the line up screen to not let their oppent ready up and then simulating a game giving them a win. Also there are people running cronos pitching and hitting scripts. These players however their hitting script can't track submarine pitchers so there is at least a way to make them have to play.

@LadySwampfox_XBL said:

Playing 9 innings vs CPU at Coors yesterday, I also noticed that I am not being rewarded for patience at the plate like I should, nor am I rewarded for good PCI location or timing. Flyout city. Kept lining out with that Yankees player from the Egg Hunt program. Frustrating. Feels like I have no control over the outcome of an at-bat despite my efforts to the contrary.

You don't have any control. It is completely RNG based. Thats why if you go to custom practice you can set fastball down the middle and watch the same pitches same swing have 15 different results. Also why pitches warp sometimes. I'm not an expert but just seems like they have compiled to many "fixes" and "updates" on existing code so it is bogged down by everything and why like last year when the "fix" something it breaks something else and why the whatbis now a completely false statement about sliders shrinkage being removed is still happening and now happens on ANY breaking ball and even sinkers sometimes.

@AppleLemon560_MLBTS said:

it's probably warranted for now, while hitting is more dominant than pitching. but it would really make things tough when facing the John dons and Randys of the world.

Lol no hitting is not, hitting is literally just as broken as pitching. It's worse then ever where 1 player will be allowed to swing at 10 pitches and foul off 7 even if they aren't near the strike zone. Then the complete lie about sliders shrinkage being removed from online play, it's absurd to try and claim this. I've seen good squared up be anywhere from 74 ev pop up/grounder to 99 ev no doubt. Perfect swings are about a 60% shot at being a line out or hitting the SDS invisible wall and do a 90 degree turn down at the wall.