hitting with low power players

[Therebelyell626]

Re: hitting with low power players

To me personally it felt like this was sent an issue before the first major path to fix pith speed. Once he pitch speed was adjusted it felt like there was discrepancies between the hitting physics and the new pitching physics. I think the new hitting mechanics were meant to work better with the out of the box pitch speeds

[BigOscar]

Re: hitting with low power players

I would also say, and have thought for years, that the ratio size of the infielders compared to the size of the field makes the holes smaller between 3b & SS as well as between 2b & 1b. Taking it further, there appears to not be much room between first basemen and the first base foul line (same goes for 3rd basemen and the 3b foul line).

Maybe it is my perception, which could be totally wrong. Maybe it merely has to do with infielder reaction time being lightning fast. Regardless, it seems that hard hit balls and even solidly hit balls that should get through the infield do not because there just isn't enough room between infielders due to the playing field being small and infielders being too close together (when standing in their normal positions). Anyone care to comment on this possibility? Maybe I'm just seeing things incorrectly.

Yeah I know what you mean and have often thought that. The oufielders and infielders do seem very big and the holes between them don't seem as large as they do in real life

[Detroit Tigers]

Re: hitting with low power players

I've had horrible results with all guys like this in pretty much every past show, but not this year they've actually been some of my better hitters this year.

This for sure. Seeing slow grounders get through up the middle at an extreme rate compared to previous years, and probably seen about as many bloop singles in ~30 games with ‘18 than I did in 200+ games last year. So yeah, not really seeing this issue at all. In fact, power is what I’m lacking so far this year in my chise. I think I only have 3 or 4 HR as a team through 9 games.