MLB The Show 19 Twitch Stream - Hitting Improvements

[TGov]

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Aaahhh yes, thank you!

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[The Kid 24]

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Here's the archive.

https://www.twitch.tv/videos/380702747

Anyone know why the archive in Twitch app doesnt work? I click on it and nothing happens.

[nemesis04]

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I did not hear any mention of a sensitivity slider for the PCI? Not sure what the apprehension is about adding something like that.

[agentlaw13]

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I like what I’m hearing about contact hitters. Sounds like they will definitely more effective at slapping the ball around the field this year.

Hearing about the improvement in this year’s game kinda explains something that I’ve been puzzled by in my franchise on the current game.

Jose Ramirez’s definitely had some batting “woes” that made me scratch my head. Obviously he’s a pretty dang good hitter in real life but in my two franchise seasons, he was just an average hitter. His average was around .275 for both years (which is pretty decent) but what bothered me was he rarely hit anything but weak singles and had very little power. He hit around 15 homers in each season (played almost every game in both seasons). He very rarely hit doubles/triples and the ball was never driven with any force. And I believe he only averaged around 50 RBIs in each season. For one of the leagues best hitters and a player that has both high contact and power ratings, I definitely expected more from him at the plate in my virtual world.

It looks like the changes they made this year will keep players and situations like this from happening as often. Looking forward to seeing the improvements in action.

[countryboy]

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One thing I like is that they took the time to implement the hitting changes, the pitching changes, and the defensive changes all in the same dev cycle to prevent, in theory, the game from becoming unbalanced, where one phase overpowers the others.

Looking forward to playing the finished product and seeing all three of these areas interact with each other.

[El_MaYiMbE]

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I like what I’m hearing about contact hitters. Sounds like they will definitely more effective at slapping the ball around the field this year.

Hearing about the improvement in this year’s game kinda explains something that I’ve been puzzled by in my franchise on the current game.

Jose Ramirez’s definitely had some batting “woes” that made me scratch my head. Obviously he’s a pretty dang good hitter in real life but in my two franchise seasons, he was just an average hitter. His average was around .275 for both years (which is pretty decent) but what bothered me was he rarely hit anything but weak singles and had very little power. He hit around 15 homers in each season (played almost every game in both seasons). He very rarely hit doubles/triples and the ball was never driven with any force. And I believe he only averaged around 50 RBIs in each season. For one of the leagues best hitters and a player that has both high contact and power ratings, I definitely expected more from him at the plate in my virtual world.

It looks like the changes they made this year will keep players and situations like this from happening as often. Looking forward to seeing the improvements in action.

This 100000000x is something that I see all the time and it has plagued the series for years.

Ichiro, DJ Lemahieu, Jeter, Ramirez, Dee Gordon, etc...

These are all contact hitters that have been in MLB The Show throughout the years, and while you can hit .280-.300+ with them, when you go look at the type of hits you are getting they are all singles.

Pure contact hitters being able to hit hard hit balls in the gap, that are not HRs, has been missing. I think this may be the year we see that change. I am hopeful and excited.

[thescoop]

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I like a lot of what I heard yesterday.

[Armor and Sword]

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This 100000000x is something that I see all the time and it has plagued the series for years.



Ichiro, DJ Lemahieu, Jeter, Ramirez, Dee Gordon, etc...



These are all contact hitters that have been in MLB The Show throughout the years, and while you can hit .280-.300+ with them, when you go look at the type of hits you are getting they are all singles.



Pure contact hitters being able to hit hard hit balls in the gap, that are not HRs, has been missing. I think this may be the year we see that change. I am hopeful and excited.

Go to my slider thread and check out what Phillisfan hit with Jose Ramirez.

MVP type season.

What interface do you hit with?


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[Armor and Sword]

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I like what I’m hearing about contact hitters. Sounds like they will definitely more effective at slapping the ball around the field this year.

Hearing about the improvement in this year’s game kinda explains something that I’ve been puzzled by in my franchise on the current game.

Jose Ramirez’s definitely had some batting “woes” that made me scratch my head. Obviously he’s a pretty dang good hitter in real life but in my two franchise seasons, he was just an average hitter. His average was around .275 for both years (which is pretty decent) but what bothered me was he rarely hit anything but weak singles and had very little power. He hit around 15 homers in each season (played almost every game in both seasons). He very rarely hit doubles/triples and the ball was never driven with any force. And I believe he only averaged around 50 RBIs in each season. For one of the leagues best hitters and a player that has both high contact and power ratings, I definitely expected more from him at the plate in my virtual world.

It looks like the changes they made this year will keep players and situations like this from happening as often. Looking forward to seeing the improvements in action.

Philliesfan mashed with Ramirez. The different results people get with hitters on this game can be all over the board based on skill, interface, online vs offline etc etc.


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[El_MaYiMbE]

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Go to my slider thread and check out what Phillisfan hit with Jose Ramirez.

MVP type season.

What interface do you hit with?


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My problem with sliders is everyone is adjusted by the same scale. If I up Solid Hits across board to give contact hitters better contact and more 100 MPH batted balls, now Judge and Stanton are hitting 120 MPH line drives for HRs on regular.

These types of problems need to be remedied by devs. They admitted this was an issue and that contact hitters simply didn't have enough power/solid contact being made behind the scenes.

This was a much needed change.

[Rob_NYY]

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The Show is always the one game I look forward to most every year. But man, watching these streams the last two years it feels like the devs aren't even talking to me. The focus is always on DD and online play. I really, really hope they worked on offline Franchise mode. It felt stale to me about 4 years ago and not much has been changed aside from a facelift to the menus. They haven't even updated the rules for playoff eligible players and that rule was changed three years ago. It's annoying to make the playoffs and then be told certain players can't be on the playoff roster because they weren't on the MLB team September 1. Franchise mode needs a lot of attention and I'm afraid that, for another year, all the dev time went to DD.

[Padgoi]

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1. Defensive stream looked amazing. Before we all go nuts, we also should take into consideration that the streams in previous years looked good too and I haven't been happy with a show game in years, so I try to take the streams with a grain of salt. With that said, the defensive stream looked really good and I have high hopes.

2. Bunting still looks off. I know they only showed a few, but the bunts are still coming off the bat too hard, to the point that I feel like it's still going to be WAY too easy to get the lead runner on a force out or even turn a double play if the runner isn't stealing. There has to be a way to DEADEN bunts, to make them just plop down and not bounce 20-40 feet every bunt. Some bunts only go a few feet . . . they need to understand and implement this otherwise bunting will still fail to be the strategic function it is in real baseball.

3. Hitting stream looked decent to me. As someone said earlier, the 3-5th best pitches in a pitchers arsenal SHOULD be their least effective pitches and I am ABSOLUTELY in the camp that in 2018, secondary pitches were ENTIRELY too effective, ESPECIALLY changeups. I'm totally ok with what they said about alleviating the effectiveness of secondary pitches.

However, something still seems off to me about how the ball is coming off the bat.

(a) the bunt single - they freeze it RIGHT before the bunt goes down the third base line and the ball actually looks like it's going to be right to the pitcher before it weirdly redirects towards third base. Looks VERY off and very unrealistic. The ball physics off the bat look off to me.

(b) some of the gappers they showed also looked off based on where the pitch is thrown. I don't care how good a hitter is, if a pitch is on the inside part of the plate, it's VERY difficult to hit that ball into the right-center field gap for a right handed hitter at the exit velocity they were hitting them. Yes, you can hit it into the gap, but the exit velocities were hard. It is absurdly difficult to hit a ball 90+ mph into the right center field gap for a right handed hitter on an inside fastball. If you are RIGHT on it, you'll probably pull that pitch. If you're late, you'll probably foul it off or maybe dunk a single to right center. Ball physics off the bat just looked off in that video and it's really starting to irk me because ball physics have been off for YEARS in my opinion. This video did nothing to quell those fears.

[PhilliesFan13]

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Armor I think you mean Carlos Santana and not Jose Ramirez from my posts.

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[Armor and Sword]

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Yes Philles,

Senior moment


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[Armor and Sword]

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My problem with sliders is everyone is adjusted by the same scale. If I up Solid Hits across board to give contact hitters better contact and more 100 MPH batted balls, now Judge and Stanton are hitting 120 MPH line drives for HRs on regular.



These types of problems need to be remedied by devs. They admitted this was an issue and that contact hitters simply didn't have enough power/solid contact being made behind the scenes.



This was a much needed change.

Only 2 things I changed were solid hits and foul frequency to 4

HOF Directional hitting.




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