Suggestions for stealing?

[pantherfan076]

Never have I had this issue... sliders are 5 but Anderson and Engle get thrown out by a country mile. It’s like I let the L2 go to time it but the catcher throws them out from his knees!?

[bigp51]

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The only success I’ve had stealing is when I press L2 while pointing the left stick at first base. If I hold L2 I tend to get picked off. Same with just pressing L2 by itself.

I had 119 stolen bases with Billy Hamilton before he got hurt in my franchise.

[Jhack99]

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Ive practically given up on stealing. What I do if in certain situations is going Quick manage and and steal from there. Whatever happens happens. This game is so broken when stealing (and bunting - I do the same thing) is concerned, I'll take the dice roll over me being successful at it.

[pantherfan076]

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Ive practically given up on stealing. What I do if in certain situations is going Quick manage and and steal from there. Whatever happens happens. This game is so broken when stealing (and bunting - I do the same thing) is concerned, I'll take the dice roll over me being successful at it.

I never thought about that and hate too but there may be no choice

[Mackrel829]

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Ive practically given up on stealing. What I do if in certain situations is going Quick manage and and steal from there. Whatever happens happens. This game is so broken when stealing (and bunting - I do the same thing) is concerned, I'll take the dice roll over me being successful at it.

I also do this for stealing, bunting, and particularly for suicide squeezes.

Shame it has to be that way but it's not the end of the world.

[Fishbone Walker]

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Can't remember where I read it, but if you hit L2 (steal) and then hold down on L1(Lead off) it works for some reason (I don't know, maybe they get a better jump?) But yeah, since I started doing that I find that stealing is actually possible. Maybe it's a placebo, but I dunno, what have you got to lose?

[countryboy]

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Can't remember where I read it, but if you hit L2 (steal) and then hold down on L1(Lead off) it works for some reason (I don't know, maybe they get a better jump?) But yeah, since I started doing that I find that stealing is actually possible. Maybe it's a placebo, but I dunno, what have you got to lose?

This is what I do.

Press L2 to que the steal.

Wait for the pitcher to get ready to go home and then I press L1 to get a better lead/jump for the steal.

Is it 100% successful? No and nor should it be, but I have good success stealing bases doing this and have for a few iterations of the Show.

[Jhack99]

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I never thought about that and hate too but there may be no choice

There is one cavat to this method. If you don't do this before the first pitch it will reset the count to either 1-0 or 0-1 or a result will happen. It can be cheesed to an wxtent but until otherwise.

[Jhack99]

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This is what I do.

Press L2 to que the steal.

Wait for the pitcher to get ready to go home and then I press L1 to get a better lead/jump for the steal.

Is it 100% successful? No and nor should it be, but I have good success stealing bases doing this and have for a few iterations of the Show.

I used ti do this, but forgot about it this year. I'll try it again and see if i can still do it correctly.

[ReturnoftheTmac]

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The computer seems to never get caught tho which is crazy. Honest to god when the CPU gets on I lower the baserunner steal ability and when I get on and plan on trying a steal I raise baserunner steal ability all the way and speed by one click. It’s kind of immersion breaking and lame but it’s not too bad with the way of base all today with less steals and runners on since the HR #s.

Although when I get to the 2nd year of my franchise I’m going to do a league wide rating adjustment to get more steals and less Ks and Hrs in baseball. Wish they’d offer rule change options like 2k but I can make my own in my head.

[Mjphillips]

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Queue it up with L2 then hold L1 until the pitcher starts his motion. NOTHING else works IMO. I went a whole season without stealing until someone suggested this. Now I'm leading the league realistically.

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[kinsmen7]

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With Armor's sliders, using the Mariners, I'm leading the league by a long shot in stealing (Though Dee Gordon, Jake Fraley and Tyler O'Neil *trade*, are all burners).

I'll never steal on the first pitch of an at bat (Even using quick counts). After a couple of pitches, I just press L2 to cue it up, and have had incredible success with it.

Hopefully this helps!

[LetsGoBucs]

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Queue it up with L2 then hold L1 until the pitcher starts his motion. NOTHING else works IMO. I went a whole season without stealing until someone suggested this. Now I'm leading the league realistically.

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If I remember correctly I think this signals the runner to take off on first move. I've had my runner picked off/caught stealing several times using this method. So be careful...