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Actual MLB is full of weekly/monthly moments that are not necessarily home runs. Every single moment in the games is “recreate whatever whatever” yet from a gameplay standpoint you just hit a 450ft bomb to complete. Where is the baseball?

All fine points, perfect boost visits could be a drag after a while. Maybe it just speaks larger to the CPU bullpen management. I’m playing a franchise and am in early June and it’s just kind of silly to me to see the CPU pull their starter so quickly with them only having thrown like 60 pitches. I find while the CPU management has been better about pulling starters earlier it feels like all 162 are managed with the same intensity as the postseason. Sometimes guys just gotta eat innings.

Still even, maybe success rate on mound visits positively impacting the pitcher are determined by the quality of the pitching coach…? Would be neat to have the coaching staff mean something in this mode lol

I stand corrected, the euro step is in the game. I just wasn’t playing on broadcast presentation. Kudos MLBTS for that one, it’s my fav haha.

The CPU team never does a mound visit unless they are taking the pitcher out.

Regardless of whether the mound visits in the game are designed to calm pitchers down or boost energy, the CPU literally never does it. They should at least do a visit during a big inning or after 4+ consecutive hits, etc. Instead, they just sub the starter immediately. I can’t remember the last time an MLB subbed out their starter without at least 1 prior visit from the pitching coach.

@Shua2168_MLBTS

I feel you, man. Been playing this game for years and just want to take over my favorite team and deck the guys out in what I see them wear on tv.

Some of this stuff is literally already in the game on the other screens. Why can’t equipment color get the same sliders as hair and facial hair, or the DD uniform creator? It’s like, literally right there.

The necklaces bug me to no end. Guys have so much drip these days. Guys wear earrings too.

Unrelated, where’s Marcell Ozuna’s euro step home run celebration? Say what you want about the guy but that euro step rounding third is dope. Spoiler alert I’m a Braves fan so I want Acuña’s new knee pad thing and Michael Harris’ gold cleats. Not the “gold” and “silver” from the 16 color crayon pack that is the equipment customization menu.

This stuff isn’t even gameplay related. It’s window dressing.

Adding recent games to the player cards is An example of the good. It’s so handy to check in the lineup screen, etc. But let me toggle recent games in the stats screens. I press square for season/career. Let me press it again to see how my team is playing over the last 10 without needing to shuffle through the individual player cards. Let me see how the rest of the league is doing, etc.

In the edit player equipment screen it would be great to be able to press L3 or something and cycle the player model through home & road unis to actually see what “team color 1”, “team color 2”, “team default”, etc color is.

Better yet, give us the option to set equipment colors by home/road/alt/city connect unis; either sync them together or make them all different. Same way you can match hair and facial hair. Lots of guys change up their batting gloves etc based on home/road unis.

@Dinger_Dan19_PSN like a real editable depth chart where you can set your substitutions/ platoons that inform the cpu how to sub tired to players when simming. A greater amount of control than just setting your batting order vsLHP vsRHP. It’s been a while since I’ve played it, but I think NBA 2k had something along the lines of setting on court minutes for players so you could establish your rotations by position.

Side note, energy and durability aka injury likelihood should be two different stats. Lots of players with real life injury history are constantly being subbed when healthy because their energy bar is always low. In real life when healthy, they play.