Can using guess pitch affect your hitting ability?

[cleetus]

I use guess pitch often, usually guessing high and fastball. My question is, if I use guess pitch and am wrong, how badly does it affect my hitting? I play with pure analog batting on all star difficulty. I am using the Pirates. Right now I can get on average 5-6 hits per game and I have not hit a home run in 15 games. Trying to look for reasons why hitting has been a struggle for me. I am able to get 3-4 walks per game and get the pitchers pitch count up there. Just not having much success. What camera angle does everyone use? I use a custom one that is down lower as I feel that using the fish eye cam I would have a hard time tracking balls that go down low.

[Sgexpat]

Re: Can using guess pitch affect your hitting ability?

Are you open to moving to zone hitting? I find it helps move walks and extra base hits / power upwards. There are some good threads on it.

Also I would advise using guess pitch low when in double play situations and / when facing sinker ballers.

I do not actually know if guess pitch impacts your ability to hit the ball negatively.

[KBLover]

Re: Can using guess pitch affect your hitting ability?

I believe guessing wrong imparts some penalty. Probably like guessing right, it depends on the type of guess pitch you are using (no feedback, etc).

At least it used to, half the reason I didn't use it was because of that. I'd lose the ability to adjust to a pitch (without penalty) where if I "guess" in my head fastball but recognize change up and adjust my timing, I don't have the mechanic making me "be wrong" even though I correctly adjusted as a hitter.

Doesn't help that The Show pitchers are far more likely to throw non-fastballs in "cripple" counts than irl pitchers.

[scooterperpetual]

Re: Can using guess pitch affect your hitting ability?

I believe guessing wrong imparts some penalty. Probably like guessing right, it depends on the type of guess pitch you are using (no feedback, etc).

At least it used to, half the reason I didn't use it was because of that. I'd lose the ability to adjust to a pitch (without penalty) where if I "guess" in my head fastball but recognize change up and adjust my timing, I don't have the mechanic making me "be wrong" even though I correctly adjusted as a hitter.

Doesn't help that The Show pitchers are far more likely to throw non-fastballs in "cripple" counts than irl pitchers.

Yea I have used guess pitch for the longest time but it just kills my ability to punish pitchers when they throw high heat or hang a breaking ball. I usually just foul it off resulting in very low home run numbers for me

[mrCPUgeek]

Re: Can using guess pitch affect your hitting ability?

I play on dynamic difficulty. Use classic guess pitch. My normal approach is to guess high with pitcher's fastball. Then with two strikes I guess low because I have a tendency to swing at balls in the dirt.

Maybe it is my sliders but I feel like I get good results with this approach. I have games with five or less hits. I have games with eight plus. I average a HR somewhere around two out of three games or so. I have games with multiple homers and I have stretches with none. Many (not all) of my homers do come from pitches that I guess wrong on.

I'm sure there is a penalty for guessing wrong. But I don't think it is enough to discount what I get out if it in return.


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[cleetus]

Re: Can using guess pitch affect your hitting ability?

What camera do you guys use? I tried dynamic difficulty but it seemed way too easy so I tried to challenge myself and went to all star. Thinking I might have to come down to vetran.

[mrCPUgeek]

Re: Can using guess pitch affect your hitting ability?

What camera do you guys use? I tried dynamic difficulty but it seemed way too easy so I tried to challenge myself and went to all star. Thinking I might have to come down to vetran.

Set your slider for dynamic difficulty up and you'll progress to harder levels faster.




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[Vtownwaves]

Re: Can using guess pitch affect your hitting ability?

Yes, guessing pitches affects your hitting ability, of course it does. If you're aiming for a high fastball and they even just throw it over the middle of the plate with a breaking ball, you're not going to make good contact barring a great hitter. You're aiming above where the ball is actually going to land, and you're looking for a fastball when it was a breaker. Like this is just common sense.

And if you're wondering why you're not hitting well, its because you keep aiming high. You're getting on top of the ball, not swinging through the middle or aiming low to get underneath it with power. YOU ARE LIMITING YOURSELF. The only pitch you're gonna hit well is a high fastball at that point. If you want to hit better, its more advantageous to guess LOW. That way, even if its in the middle of the plate or higher, you can swing upwards crushing the ever loving **** out of the ball. But if you're aiming high and they're throwing middle of the plate or lower, you're in groundball city, and you deserve to hit multiple double plays. There's just NO reason to aim high UNLESS THEY'RE A POP UP PITCHER. In that case, aiming high might turn those into line drives instead of short flyouts.

[Sgexpat]

Re: Can using guess pitch affect your hitting ability?

Yes, guessing pitches affects your hitting ability, of course it does. If you're aiming for a high fastball and they even just throw it over the middle of the plate with a breaking ball, you're not going to make good contact barring a great hitter. You're aiming above where the ball is actually going to land, and you're looking for a fastball when it was a breaker. Like this is just common sense.

And if you're wondering why you're not hitting well, its because you keep aiming high. You're getting on top of the ball, not swinging through the middle or aiming low to get underneath it with power. YOU ARE LIMITING YOURSELF. The only pitch you're gonna hit well is a high fastball at that point. If you want to hit better, its more advantageous to guess LOW. That way, even if its in the middle of the plate or higher, you can swing upwards crushing the ever loving **** out of the ball. But if you're aiming high and they're throwing middle of the plate or lower, you're in groundball city, and you deserve to hit multiple double plays. There's just NO reason to aim high UNLESS THEY'RE A POP UP PITCHER. In that case, aiming high might turn those into line drives instead of short flyouts.

First of all this is a really good comment, especially about getting under balls.

That said I have found aiming high and taking low strikes highly effective against power pitchers with 1B empty (or with 1B occupied and 2 outs). The reason is they will try and give you 1 or more heaters up in the zone. Those are the easiest (besides change ups down the middle) to hit out of the park or for a double. The trick is you have to take all middle or low strikes as you will, as you say, ground out too much otherwise.

So I follow this approach:

Runner on 1B less than 2 outs - low zone take high
No runner on 1B - high zone take low unless sinker / 2 seamer / junk baller guy, who is always middle / middle-low zone.
Runner on 1B 2 outs - see above