Too deep at 2B.

[Joeythebigboss]

Quote: Originally Posted by Dag_BoomStick

I don't doubt how good he is. He is on pace with padroia minus the hr aspect but steeling is so easy in this game I can do almost as well with padroia.

Tell me how good of a chance you got stealing with pedroia against a good catcher my D.d catcher won't even sweat XD

[MrOldboy]

Quote: Originally Posted by Joeythebigboss

Tell me how good of a chance you got stealing with pedroia against a good catcher my D.d catcher won't even sweat XD

You'd think so, but even a 63-70 speed runner will be successful most of the time against 99 throwers. Unless you slide step and pitch out. My DD catcher has high 90s throwing, but only throw out maybe 20% of runners. This is with only slidestepping and throwing a strike.

The devs just upped the runner speed too much without taking into account fielder animations. Catchers take too long to get throws out and tagging this year can be a mess, then add in how difficult it is to time your throw to 2nd. Preload...nope just gonna stand there.

When you have players online who hit L2 whenever anyone with speed is on without taking a lead, that is a problem. They don't even care if you pitchout and slide step, they will still be successful a majority of the time no matter what and they know it and abuse it.

[Joeythebigboss]

Quote: Originally Posted by MrOldboy

You'd think so, but even a 63-70 speed runner will be successful most of the time against 99 throwers. Unless you slide step and pitch out. My DD catcher has high 90s throwing, but only throw out maybe 20% of runners. This is with only slidestepping and throwing a strike. The devs just upped the runner speed too much without taking into account fielder animations. Catchers take too long to get throws out and tagging this year can be a mess, then add in how difficult it is to time your throw to 2nd. Preload...nope just gonna stand there. When you have players online who hit L2 whenever anyone with speed is on without taking a lead, that is a problem. They don't even care if you pitchout and slide step, they will still be successful a majority of the time no matter what and they know it and abuse it.

Yup the base stealing cheese is Real people with 99 speed are OP.

[Dag_BoomStick]

Quote: Originally Posted by Joeythebigboss

Tell me how good of a chance you got stealing with pedroia against a good catcher my D.d catcher won't even sweat XD

My dd guy is a catcher as well and is near maxed out on stuff to prevent steels yet it still happens to much. I do steel but not nearly as much as some ppl. Gets kinda annoying when ellsbury or altuve get on and they throw over every other pitch when Im not taking a step.

[KObossy]

I start Cano vs Righties and Altuve vs Lefties. Cano out hits all other 2B's and there isn't a big difference between Padroia and Altuve except for the speed plus I favor Contact over Power.

Since Cano gets most of the starts I like having Altuve on the bench as my late inning speed guy.

Devon Travis may make this argument irrelevant in a month lol.