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@x-814-x-MAFIA-x_PSN, or maybe you don't like cooldowns because you dashboard.

You dashboarded against me last night... on a line drive into the left field corner. In the second inning of a Moonshot event.

Or was that another random drop?

Reading some of the posts above make me so grateful that my wife is a gamer... I'm 51, she's 49; been married 17 years, and one of our favorite things to do is enjoy our hobbies together. She plays online MMOs, and I play The Show while we sit together, chat in less tense moments, and drink our coffee on weekend mornings... sometimes we play all day. Even our 13 year-old daughter is a gamer (but, my god, I don't know if I can take many more family sessions of Genshin Impact).

@datdudereyo_PSN, I feel like a fraud giving advice with my ranked record, but I came upon the advice from someone’s post a couple of years ago to play those types of guys with your 1B, 2B, and 3B moved in, leaving SS at normal depth.

I’ve done it since against bunt heavy teams (or people who do nothing but bunt with guys like PCA), and it works pretty well. Your fielders are in a better position to make plays on the ridiculously bunted balls, so aren’t as affected by weird animations. But do run to 1st yourself with the stick without giving the button command.

And I think you’re right; bunting should not baffle a defense like that.

And that’s why the people who enjoy the game speak up as well… to show that not everyone wants things changed. The “I don’t feel rewarded” crowd has plenty of representation. By the way, those bloop hits are called singles. They’re part of the game.

Besides, OP, you’re hitting .311 over 87 games and you’ve hit 213 HRs. Looks like you’re getting rewarded plenty.

If you want better defense, put good defenders in your lineup.

@LIONED-33_XBL said in So i was curios:

... up until this year pack luck was not an issue.

@Cory-Seager_XBL said in Taking All My Willpower To Remain NMS (Rengifo):

For all the money SDS is making...

How much are they making, exactly?

@Teak2112_MLBTS, I hear you, but these low to mid 90s cards will likely be the best for those players, and they'll be eclipsed by the guys you mentioned later in the cycle.

Personally, I'm glad cards like this get a run; spreads the joy around so it's not just limited to those who stack their lineups with the greats. I'd take a 92 Dee Strange Gordon with CF secondary over any Mantle, any day, then I'd P5 him and he'd never leave my RS lineup.

Alonso will get a high 90s card at some point.

@dbub_PSN, I'm not an NMS guy myself, but happy for you that you got to stick to your principles and get your guy. P5 that card, and I bet you can keep him in your lineup for quite a while...

Like the greatest philosopher of our time, Penelope Cruz, once said: every passing minute is another chance to turn it all around.

@dbub_PSN, it's tough when your favorites seem out of reach... glad you got him!

@Teak2112_MLBTS, that’s one way of looking at it…

I think we’re all speculating a bit when we speak to these things, and I don’t know how much you’ve played with Timing, but I’ve played well over 500 ranked games using Timing/analog over the last couple of years, and my experience is less vision = more strikeouts.

Back when the Buxton boost was all the rage, I couldn’t use him; far too many times for me to be comfortable with, I’d get swing and misses on good timing on balls around the heart of the zone. Same with Eric Davis, who was always someone I liked as a younger man, but his 40ish vision made him a strikeout machine for me… on decent timing.

I only ever hit over .300 on Timing with high vision cards, and the lower the vision attribute, the lower the average over time.

Maybe you had a different experience using it (maybe analog had something to do with it?), but that’s how it was for me over a very large sample.

@rageincage007_XBL, that’s a good question…

I’ll preface by saying I’m not a good hitter, but back in my Directional and Timing days, I’d say Vision is the most important all day; low vision guys were worthless to me… clutch always helped combat splits (so 2nd), and while discipline helps me because I’ve always (and still do with Zone) used the stick to swing so check a lot, I find the others more important.

Now, with Zone, I’d put Clutch ahead of Vision.

@P0pa-Cherry_XBL, I certainly can’t speak to all views, since I only use Retro, but that box appears to line up pretty well with the plate in my monitor.

If it’s what you say, and the box itself isn’t rendered correctly (even in the feedback screen sans plate), then that’s almost worse.

Either way, it should be corrected; as is, it’s akin to needing to grab more than 50% of the chalk down the lines to be called a fair ball. As offensively-minded as this community is, people would lose their minds over that.

Let’s give pitching a little love…

I don’t think either of the respondents understood the OP; he’s asking why, if SDS implements the new rules and can obviously change rules, can’t they get the old rules right?

I’m with you, OP. Not calling strikes correctly kills pitching.

@TripleH-4481_PSN said in Bought 4 5 pack bundles so you dont have to.:

The average value in a standard pack is about 150-200 stubs this year.

What are the odds that you're just making that up?

Why are we asking to honor people without any honor?

Joe Jackson admitted that he not only knew about the plan to throw the series, he admitted to taking $5K from those who made the fix. Pete Rose, in addition to gambling on games in which he was involved, had [censored] with a 15 year old when he was married with two children.

Hard no on both.

@bgn_career_MLBTS, I’ve seen hits like those before… I may be dating myself, here, but we used to call them singles.

@doobiebross66-72_PSN, yeah, I agree with you that that one is pretty drastic... I don't remember seeing a 93 with contact stats like that and 80+ power to boot.

I'm in a different place than you in terms of being okay with the business strategy behind it, but you're definitely not wrong that the attributes of the cards that cost stubs are better than the cards you grind for at this point in the gaming cycle.

I'd probably have to pull an Ohtani to sell before buying that anytime soon, but I wouldn't think twice if it was around 150K.

@theBlindRhino_PSN, I went against Fernando once in RS and had a lot of trouble... granted, I tend to have a lot of trouble hitting well off of anyone, but Fernando got me good.

I did use Beltran in one BR entry, and while I got a few hits in a handful of at-bats, I felt dirty doing it. I'm with you on the Astros.

Man, that's a nice problem to have. Good on you. I'd do what @SchnauzerFace_MLBTS says and sell, but I've never been a Beltan fan... use that "found money" recklessly and enjoy it.