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Re: MLB 11 "Road To The Show" thread
Thanks. But Woow I feel really stupid! I'm on my 3 year and never new that lolComment
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Re: MLB 11 "Road To The Show" thread
The White Sox organization really pisses me off. Unless they trade me, I'm jumping ship as soon as my six years are up.
First season (2010), they acquire me in a huge trade and I promptly get benched in AA (I had a ton of playing time with the Red Sox organization). It wasn't until the last two weeks I finally became a full-time starter.
Second season, I start off as the starter in AA and I'm thinking "okay, that's cool since I didn't have a chance to play a full season." Fast-forward to early-May, I'm promoted to AAA as a bench player and I see little playing. I'm struggling yet they keep me there for three months. I manage to become a starter for only three days before I'm sent back to AA as... a bench player. I'm there for two weeks, starting the last week and helping the Barons go on a playoff run, but I'm called up to AAA again. First I thought it was ridiculous but they were also in the playoff hunt so I decided to stick with it until the season ended. The season finally ends and the White Sox decide to put me on the 40-man roster and call me up in September... to sit for four weeks and miss out on the minor league playoffs.
So in the third season, I get through spring training and I figure since they have Dayan Viciedo in RF blocking me, that I'll be the starter in AAA. NOPE! They decide that the best way to develop a player is to have him ride the bench behind not one RF, but two RF'ers and only allow him to acquire 35 at-bats before the All-Star break. I was (thankfully) sent down to AAA three days before the break, where I finally can get some playing time.
I've kept asking to be traded, moved, and for playing time but nope. Seriously, I've lost so much development time and opportunities because of this organization. I can't tell you how pissed off I was when I found out I was riding the pine in the MLB level (no more ROTY for me).Comment
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Re: MLB 11 "Road To The Show" thread
I just found out you can hit L2 to see where the ball is when it's hit while running the bases.Comment
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Re: MLB 11 "Road To The Show" thread
2nd base for the Cubs atm and I reach the offseason and Starlin Castro retires due to injury!Comment
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Re: MLB 11 "Road To The Show" thread
Started a new RTTS...my 3rd game as a SP (so still in the bullpen) went 31 innings. I threw 8 innings of one hit ball, and the game went another 16 innings after it haha.Blue Jays, Blackhawks, AuburnComment
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Re: MLB 11 "Road To The Show" thread
Started another CP last night (since my first one was too similar to my SP). Played with the opening sliders a bit, and was pleased with the result (going minimum stamina, about 90% movement, and 90% dominant pitch). Righty, starting with 4SFB, slider, and 2SFB. Tried to put most of the adjustment points and starting training into velocity & movement. My fastball is around 93-95, 2-seam is around 87-88, and slider around 80-82. A bit disappointed that slider is still so much lower than other two. My control ratings are pretty lousy, but I was doing okay placing my pitches in game. I put him into the Texas organization and it was kind of funny, he was the only reliever on the AA staff, all of the others were starters (using the posted Opening Day rosters from this site). The AAA team had most of the relievers in the organization, which is thin at both CP and RP.
So, I opened as the setup man. Played a couple of hours and got into mid-May with 16 or so appearances. I've blown one save, and man, the manager was standing there ripping me in the dugout after the game! Took another loss when I was inserted into a 2-2 game in the 13th - pitched fine in the 1st inning, but missed location on a fastball with one out in the next inning of work and left it right in the center of the plate a bit up - deposited for a walk-off homer. I said "oh-oh" as soon as I let go and saw where it was heading, had to chuckle in spite of myself.
Other than those two failures, my outings have all been pretty good, I've given up a couple of runs in mopup outings, but otherwise have 4 holds and 1 save (earned as a 2 inning shot where my team scored insurance runs). ERA is was right around 2, averaging more than a K per inning, whip was 0.6 or so. I've drilled a guy (another pitch that got away) and walked 3.
I've added points into my various ratings, particularly control (all of which are in the 30's now, they started at 15 or so) and some stamina, but I'm still not good enough to earn the closer role. And another funny thing I noticed while checking statistics - geezer Arthur Rhodes has 4 starts, including a complete game shutout!Comment
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Re: MLB 11 "Road To The Show" thread
Spring Training can be really useful if you've reached the role of MLB Starter. 3 Trainings, don't have to worry about training the entire period, and I finished with 1000 points. I got my overall moved from C to B for April. Also, Chris Helsey beat out Jonny Gomes for LF starter.Comment
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Re: MLB 11 "Road To The Show" thread
Ok so I already have a starting pitcher for the MLB braves and enjoying it a lot but I think I want to create a closing pitcher too but in last years game I played closing pitcher thru like 5 years and still hadn't make it to the MLB so I'm wondering if it still that hard to get called up as a closer...? Anybody made it to the MLB as a closer?Comment
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Re: MLB 11 "Road To The Show" thread
Woooooooow!!!! I'm soooo pissed! I created a 3b person and get drafted by the braves and they start me from game 1. Thru 4 games I was batting around .400 with 3 or 4 doubles and 1 triple 5 rbi and 2 walks. Doing great right?.. well my 6th game come and I'm at bat and I hit the ball and it barly went anywhere and the ump called it foul then the hole game just stops but the players still moving and stuff... so I had to quit the game and come to find out my auto save wasn't on so now my person is gone.. like how does this happen.lol. I never had any proublems with this game ever and now this s*it happens... soo STUPID!Comment
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So I'm slumping bad. My batting average has dropped from .312 to .280 in a short few weeks. I can't get any breaks. I hit the ball well only for it to be right at a defender. Oh well thats baseball. I just hope I get out of it soon.
I did hit my first grandslam a few nights ago. I swung on a pitch out of the zone and was able to turn on it.Ohio State - Reds - Bengals - Blackhawks - BullsComment
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Re: MLB 11 "Road To The Show" thread
OK, I'll try this again: If anyone in this thread is playing a pitcher in RTTS, do you have the "Hot and Cold Zones" turned on? And if you do, what do you see? It looks like you have to turn on the strike zone grid for this to work - did that. I see the strike zone grid when a batter is at the plate. But the way it SHOULD work, as far as I can tell, is that you can see red and blue squares in that batting grid that represent the current batter's hot and cold zones. The stronger the color, the more hot or cold. But I see nothing in those zones, and have not seen anything in those zones over 3 seasons as a starting pitcher.
Do any of you RTTS pitchers see the hot and cold zones in the strike zone grid as the batter is standing there???Comment
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Re: MLB 11 "Road To The Show" thread
Made it to the Show full time in my 4th season as the starting RF for the Cardinals.
I got called up in September last year, and hit .158 with 2 HRs, including a walk off. They offered me a new contract and the starting job, I gladly accepted.
In early May, I lead the N.L. with 28 RBIs, and I have 8 Homers, which is how many I had last year in AAA, and that's good for 6th in the N.L. I still strike out too much though, I have 36 Ks.Comment
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