Unless you almost never throw a ball? Unless your fastball (or whatever the primary pitch is for your particular pitcher) usage and strike% is over 80%? Unless you only use your primary pitch as your strikeout pitch?
The game constantly takes away confidence from your primary pitch, like it were a little boat constantly taking on water, and throwing strikes is your only means of bailing out that water. It's very frustrating to have pitched 4 or 5 innings of no-hit ball, with 8 strikeouts, with no walks, and with no major contact given to opposing batters, and to have your primary pitch be at 40-50% or less.
For instance, I'm currently in the Top of the 5th inning playing on All-Star level vs. the CPU. I've thrown my 4-seamer 30 out of 57 pitches. Of those 30 pitches, 70% have gone for strikes or outs. My pitcher's fastball confidence is sitting right around the halfway point. If I start throwing it for nothing but strikes, I'll probably start getting pounded.
I think this gets back to the original decision to decide that the only way a pitcher can get confidence is through throwing a strike. I still think that it should be a mix of execution and result; that a set-up pitch deliberately thrown out of the zone but with perfect or near perfect execution should, if not act as a confidence booster, at least be confidence-neutral.
Maybe it's being done to tamp down on dominant pitching? If that's the case, I guess I wish they'd figure out a better way. I admit that at All-Star difficulty, it seems that it's a little too easy to pitch dominant games. But there's currently very little incentive for me to pitch on higher levels.
The game constantly takes away confidence from your primary pitch, like it were a little boat constantly taking on water, and throwing strikes is your only means of bailing out that water. It's very frustrating to have pitched 4 or 5 innings of no-hit ball, with 8 strikeouts, with no walks, and with no major contact given to opposing batters, and to have your primary pitch be at 40-50% or less.
For instance, I'm currently in the Top of the 5th inning playing on All-Star level vs. the CPU. I've thrown my 4-seamer 30 out of 57 pitches. Of those 30 pitches, 70% have gone for strikes or outs. My pitcher's fastball confidence is sitting right around the halfway point. If I start throwing it for nothing but strikes, I'll probably start getting pounded.
I think this gets back to the original decision to decide that the only way a pitcher can get confidence is through throwing a strike. I still think that it should be a mix of execution and result; that a set-up pitch deliberately thrown out of the zone but with perfect or near perfect execution should, if not act as a confidence booster, at least be confidence-neutral.
Maybe it's being done to tamp down on dominant pitching? If that's the case, I guess I wish they'd figure out a better way. I admit that at All-Star difficulty, it seems that it's a little too easy to pitch dominant games. But there's currently very little incentive for me to pitch on higher levels.
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