MLB 11 "Road To The Show" thread

[DK10]

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season 3 is going a lot better for me. i finally learned the evils of trying to guess pitch every time


through about 55 games im at .325 40rbi and 12 hr and 2nd in CF all star voting. Signed a 4yr 5.5mill contract this offseason

[malikz4]

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Has anyone here played for the Cleveland Indians for an extended period of time. Their home ball park is awful during sunny games. It's virtually impossible to see the ball coming out of the pitchers hand. It was evident in my stats too: During my 3rd and final year in Cleveland (my 3rd in the MLB) I batted .241 with 50 HRs and 110 RBI's.... At home i batted .222 with 11 HR's. Luckily over the offseason I became to expensive for them and they traded me to the Yankees. After a full year with NYY and that Wiffle Ball Park, I batted .294 with 70 HRs. I was just curious to see if anyone else has experienced problems with Progressive Field

[Phillies2010]

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Has anyone here played for the Cleveland Indians for an extended period of time. Their home ball park is awful during sunny games. It's virtually impossible to see the ball coming out of the pitchers hand. It was evident in my stats too: During my 3rd and final year in Cleveland (my 3rd in the MLB) I batted .241 with 50 HRs and 110 RBI's.... At home i batted .222 with 11 HR's. Luckily over the offseason I became to expensive for them and they traded me to the Yankees. After a full year with NYY and that Wiffle Ball Park, I batted .294 with 70 HRs. I was just curious to see if anyone else has experienced problems with Progressive Field

Absolutely, Indains home field is terrible the sun is unbearable to see the ball through, i feel your pain. My rtts 3rd basemen was in Cleveland for 4 years, and i hated every moment of it

[malikz4]

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Btw, How many people here have broken Bonds' 762 HRs?

[Mercury53]

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Btw, How many people here have broken Bonds' 762 HRs?

Probably could have last year. Came up to Cleveland when my player was 19 and hit 20 bombs in three months, then 59, 58 and 62 the years after. Being 23 or 24 at the time with already that many homers, if I had kept going I could have beat it I think.

[rkwittem]

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One question for you guys:

Does it make a difference how many points AT ONCE I put into one category (like Power L/R)?

I´m now always putting the minimum 40 points into one category and I wondered if it matters if I put like 150 points into Power. Do I progress faster that way?

Thanks in advance.

I'm a pitcher so maybe it's different for me, but when I was dominating AA I would dump roughly half of my points into areas that would screw me over during the prior game. Say I was having trouble locating my curve or 2SFB. I always tried to meet my achievement goals since they're important, but if I had problems with a particular pitch or giving up too many hits or HRs in a particular start, I would try to fix those.

If I earned like 600 points, I'd dump 300 into a certain pitch attribute that was bothering me and then dump the other 300 into my achievement goal requirements.

[B1ackswords]

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Has anyone here played for the Cleveland Indians for an extended period of time. Their home ball park is awful during sunny games. It's virtually impossible to see the ball coming out of the pitchers hand. It was evident in my stats too: During my 3rd and final year in Cleveland (my 3rd in the MLB) I batted .241 with 50 HRs and 110 RBI's.... At home i batted .222 with 11 HR's. Luckily over the offseason I became to expensive for them and they traded me to the Yankees. After a full year with NYY and that Wiffle Ball Park, I batted .294 with 70 HRs. I was just curious to see if anyone else has experienced problems with Progressive Field

Dude I have had the same problem!!!!! With the Astros we had an Inter league game there and the first warmup pitch i got the BP Pitcher got a nice breez of A/C. I finished the 3 grame series going like 2-11 with a BB

[Mrfrosty]

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So after 3+ years of toiling away in the Reds minor league system, as a SP, I finally get the call up during september. Struck out my first batter, then my very next batter blasted a 430 footer to LF.

Weirdly enough, the very first pitch I saw as a batter was a high fastball that I hit to dead away center for a HR. No clue how this happened and I thought for sure it was going to stay in the park. CF jumped up and it just missed his glove. Think the distance on it was 413 feet. Since then, I can't even sniff a hit.

[Mercury53]

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Dude I have had the same problem!!!!! With the Astros we had an Inter league game there and the first warmup pitch i got the BP Pitcher got a nice breez of A/C. I finished the 3 grame series going like 2-11 with a BB

Wanted to quote the Indians comment but didn't feel like finding it. LOL. I played three seasons with Cleveland and dominated, winning them a World Series. I batted .350 and up every year with 55+ homeruns. I have no issues with their stadium.

[ChernoTheInferno]

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Some of the ratings in RttS are completely idiotic. I have a 99 strength/accuracy arm for my CF and no matter from where I throw the ball I can't get the ball within 10 feet of home plate. I've tried different ways of pressing the button, different ways of positioning. And every other throw a runner that should've been out by ten feet is safe because my throw for some reason ends up 20 feet up the 1B line. Even bothering to throw feels like a waste of time because if my throw to a base is accurate the infielder screws it up anyways.

[zpk5003]

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Just got called up to the Major's the fastest I ever have while playing RTTS.

I was in AA hitting .347. No power numbers, just a bunch of singles and SB's really, so I scored a lotta runs. The starting 2B in AAA got hurt (the only one the AAA team was carrying) so they called me up on June 10th.
So, I get to start right away and I have one of the greatest series of my 4 years playing this game! I hit .600 (9/15) with 3 triples 2 doubles 3 RBI 5 runs scored and 7 SB (thank you knuckleballers). I get called up to the majors on June 14th!!!!

Kinda sucks because I wont be able to make an all-star team and ROTY is pretty much shot. But it's cool to be an 18 year old at the Major League level.

I am playing on Veteran btw, but it's still an impressively fast call-up!

[Raziel403]

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So, anyone run into the problem of getting called up to be a AAA Starter too fast, then getting left to fall apart without getting enough TP no matter what you do?

I'm seeing that with my new 3B I'm doing, and after a season not being able to hit water if I fell out of a boat (no problem with *my* hitting, as I'm doing everything I do normally), my Contact/Vision being too low, when I do manage to connect on a good pitch, it doesn't go anywhere. So now in my second season, I manage to get sent back down to AA, and now it seems like I'm more attempting to salvage my player's career rather than advance it. I'll see what happens down the line.

[YoungPhenom91]

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Started a SS career yesterday, thought about hopping on to a team, but I didn't want to just hope on to the Yankees so I got drafted to the Royals, so far, I'm batting .576 and I'm starting. Only thing I hate is that I am still batting 9th, one game they put me at 8th and I went 3-4 a double, 2 singles, and a FC. Then after that I went back down to 9th. I increase my hitting with my training points and power but I just don't understand. How do you move up in the lineup and how fast does it take to move through the system?

[Mercury53]

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Started a SS career yesterday, thought about hopping on to a team, but I didn't want to just hope on to the Yankees so I got drafted to the Royals, so far, I'm batting .576 and I'm starting. Only thing I hate is that I am still batting 9th, one game they put me at 8th and I went 3-4 a double, 2 singles, and a FC. Then after that I went back down to 9th. I increase my hitting with my training points and power but I just don't understand. How do you move up in the lineup and how fast does it take to move through the system?

Things don't happen after a few games. Give it time, you will be moved around.

[heater26_99]

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AAA CP for SWB Yanks, stuck here because there's no room on the 40 man roster. Riding a 34 consecutive save streak isn't amounting to anything. I did notice Mariano was placed on the trading block today.