Your opinion. How important is vision to directional hitting?

[Jeffrey Smith]

I’m thinking about a rebuild on 22 and I’d like to find some under valued players for the team.

I play every game using directional hitting and I’ve always believed in vision ( and clutch to a lesser extent) to be the most important rating when finding hidden gems and under valued players.

I was wondering what others look for when trying to find cheap players while in a rebuild.

I’ve rarely had any success with low vision players ( I’m looking at you Joey Gallo).

Any suggestions regardless of your preferred hitting input is welcomed.




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[jcar0725]

Re: Your opinion. How important is vision to directional hitting?

I’m thinking about a rebuild on 22 and I’d like to find some under valued players for the team.

I play every game using directional hitting and I’ve always believed in vision ( and clutch to a lesser extent) to be the most important rating when finding hidden gems and under valued players.

I was wondering what others look for when trying to find cheap players while in a rebuild.

I’ve rarely had any success with low vision players ( I’m looking at you Joey Gallo).

Any suggestions regardless of your preferred hitting input is welcomed.




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I find vision to be very important. High vision and contact players are hard to strike out for obvious reasons when controlling them. Finding cheap players are something I like to do. I like that the game makes it difficult to find a player that has everything you need, you really have to dig deep and mix and match. Sometimes find a nice two players that you can platoon (lefty/righty matchups).

I really try to find whatever I can strength wise. I'll search for high power guys, high contact guys, high vision guys, great defense but no hitting etc etc and try to build a lineup that way, and use most my budget on pitchers, because it's hard to pitch (classic pitching) with bad pitchers.

Then I work the draft hard to find exactly what I need draft. And when the team is ready to contend, I spend extra to get a high priced player or two if needed. And usually some of those cheap lineup guys I found will stay on the team in some way and it's pretty cool.

[IndianSummer]

Re: Your opinion. How important is vision to directional hitting?

I use directional as well but, timing only. I never use the stick to alter ball direction. If I want to go opposite field, I try to be a little late on the swing.

Vision is one of the first things I look at, I feel it’s really important. Speed is also underrated in my opinion.

I never look at a players OVR, I look at his attributes individually.

[Therebelyell626]

Re: Your opinion. How important is vision to directional hitting?

Vision is actually pretty important, even on directional hitting. Vision dictates the size of the pci (how much wood you can get on the ball) even if you can’t see it. Guys like Gallo have low vision, but generally high discipline. So they are true three outcome players but can still be useful when you need to get someone on base or hit a home run.

From what I understand, clutch provides a boost to hitters with runners in scoring position. So a guy with high contact, high vision, and high clutch should generally be able to drive in runners frequently with base hits

[JoshC1977]

Re: Your opinion. How important is vision to directional hitting?

I’m thinking about a rebuild on 22 and I’d like to find some under valued players for the team.

I play every game using directional hitting and I’ve always believed in vision ( and clutch to a lesser extent) to be the most important rating when finding hidden gems and under valued players.

I was wondering what others look for when trying to find cheap players while in a rebuild.

I’ve rarely had any success with low vision players ( I’m looking at you Joey Gallo).

Any suggestions regardless of your preferred hitting input is welcomed.

For directional, vision is probably the most important hitting rating along with contact IMO.

I won't necessarily build a roster around strictly ultra-high vision, but I absolutely will purge low vision hitters unless they offer a ton of value defensively.

[Caulfield]

Re: Your opinion. How important is vision to directional hitting?

as far as I can see, as for the last few posts in this thread, the eyes have it lol

but yeah, vision is definitely a biggie

as for the mentioned clutch, I'm only interested in pitcher clutch, especially relief pitchers, so less concerned about starters clutch

though I'm more a station to station kind of guy, I do like having some speed in players, be it baserunning or defense. the baserunning, I don't manually steal, I leave it up to the runners aggressiveness to move 'em around the basepath (off-topic, I used to get mad as hell when my Adam Jones from 7-8 years ago always used to be too aggressive and get thrown out too much when he had Chris Davis at the plate. drive me crazy, seemed every time Jones would get thrown out, Davis would hit a gapper for extra bags)