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I took Sandberg first and hate his swing. Jackie 99 is my fave 2B.

I played someone the other day that just hit everyone that was able to be leveled up. Reggie, Didi, Jacoby, Belli all HBP. I already don’t enjoy online play but adding in crappy humans it makes it worse.

Jason Castro is probably my favorite LH hitting catcher. I've been using Collins but he can't block balls to save his life.

I have gigabit fiber with an Archer AX11000 gaming router and play hardwired. The connections drive me insane. My ping at the highest is 5 usually sits 1-3. Sometimes playing online it’s like there’s 2 separate games going on. Extremely frustrating.

26-13 really don’t enjoy playing online much.

Arenado was terrible for me.

31 is my best I think.

I knocked out the Angels first but I’m of course an Angels fan plus Trout was way cheaper early. Then knocked out the easier ones to earn stubs. What I have left is still painful though. Mets Yankees Astros and Rockies. Degrom, Cole, Verlander and Arenado are all still needs.

In like the second week after release I pulled Arenado and tried to use him in not a fan of the swing. Sold him bought Trout when Trout was far cheaper. Rendon is by far my favorite third baseman.

Rays Twins Angels and Cardinals are my favorite Stage 1/2 cards. Albies FOTF is worth it also. Their second stage Wright is ok for being a 94.

0/99 right now on diamonds in TA packs. But have pulled golds at a better than odds rate.

I was playing a Conquest game in Seattle and hit a ball to the gap. CF on the run caught the ball and hit the wall dislodging it for a home run. Definitely not even close to what happened there but that’s the only thing I’ve seen close personally.

I had a rough one yesterday in the NL stage 2. Was cruising, had a lineup I liked, had decent perks early on, hadn’t lost a challenge entering stage two boss John Smoltz. Needed 3 runs in 15 outs, start with a runner on second. Easy peasy until it wasn’t.

Ozzie leadoff infield single, runners at 1st and 3rd still 15 outs.
Ozzie steals second, runners 2nd and 3rd still 15 outs.
Jeff McNeil single, 2 runs score, Score is tied, still 15 outs.
Cody Bellinger Lined out to first Double Play. 13 outs
Then went 0 for 13 and Failed...

It’s painful right now. Can’t find a highly rated monitor anywhere right now. I’m getting murdered by high heat. As soon as they figure it out that’s all they throw. My TV is a Vizio E80-E3 and got a pretty good gaming rating but is great for movies. The input lag makes it impossible to catch the fastball. Only game I’ve ever noticed it on is The Show and its a huge deal.

Would definitely rather go up against Cole than Sale.

I prefer Helton.

Perfect/Perfect balls go for outs in the bigs, as do early/weak balls go out of the yard. I don’t have a problem how it is, baseball is hard and sometimes extremely lucky/unlucky. MLB league average BABIP sits around .300, that’s still 70% of the time you hit the ball you get out. I’m more concerned about actual glitches than this.

13 teams last year had a BABIP over .300, 17 did not. League high was Chisox with .321 and low was Toronto at .280.

https://www.teamrankings.com/mlb/stat/batting-average-on-balls-in-play?date=2019-10-31

Mine all seem to be catchers. Travis d’Arnaud, Kurt Suzuki, Wilson Ramos, Jason Castro and Francisco Mejia. LOVE all of them.

See I feel differently on this topic than most. SDS bit the bullet and said hey look this happens and we are making it happen for a reason. League wide BABIP is around .300 and even on barrels the batting average is .800. So 70% of the time you hit the ball it’s still an out and 20% of the time you cream the ball and it’s still an out. It sucks but actually one of the things I don’t mind about the game.