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McCutchen is a very underrated card. I think he’s easily in the top 4 of cover players.

Hitting is bad this year so far. You know they have the sliders turned down when you hit a ball hard enough for the commentary to be triggered to make comments like it’s a homerun, only to have the ball die before the warning track. I’m close to going back to playing other games (Elden Ring etc). I’m just playing CPU games and even that hitting is poor. It’s not fun to play a rookie game and struggle to hit homers. They get in their minds that the stats should mimic real baseball. That’s just not fun in a video game. I’d rather have a arcade feel in cpu games. This is especially true considering how unrewarding the game appears to be this year. I’ve almost completed all collections already, but I wish I could go back in time and save my money. I have a feeling they won’t be fixing hitting anytime soon. After all these years they still haven’t even fixed the cruddy baserunning IQ of the runners around second base either. They also need to tone down the cpu defense, especially in the outfield. I’ve never had so many runners thrown out trying to score from second or go first to third in all the years I’ve played. Same goes for basestealing against average catchers.

It’s all about the double XP the last 10 (or so) days of the programs. When that happens you’re getting 8-10k per game against the CPU. Hitting is kinda poor this year so far so XP may end up being less than that until they give us something other than noodle bats.

How about tweaking the CPU outfielders down a notch? Even with 90+ runners it’s really hard to get triples and score from second on deep singles. Not to mention the superhuman catches, even in Rookie.