Not sure if hitting was nerded as much as pitchers can now place the balls better. Also balls that were called balls earlier on are now strikes so you have to swing at pitches you can’t really hit. Which isn’t bad it’s like baseball is.
This is the result of people complaint that pitching is to hard. It happens to with every sports game, a game comes out plays fine but different then last year.
But rather then learn something new people complain, “it’s to hard” the developer gives in and then as a result something else changes.
More then likely they changed something to make the pitching more forgiving and it had an unforeseen effect on hitting timing screwing it up making it unpredictable.
Thus there are swing and missus on balls down in he middle timed good.
They can try to change it his but it will just screw something else up.
Developers need to just stop tinkering with new games when people start complaining week 1 that it’s to hard rather then putting the work in to learn the new game. But that is not the American way anymore
