Mike Lowe MLB The Show '18 Sliders

[JaFFiTh]

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For simming purposes, does anyone else set up every team's bullpen like below?

I find the 2nd setup man hardly ever get any playing time, as the 7th inning guy is usually out of a middle reliever. So I am gonna try and use a long relief, 4 middle, a set up and a closer.


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[I_HATE_THAT_DUDE]

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I have the setting at 1 and actually so far (8games in) there were two minor trades completed which I thought was cool


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I had similar experiences with the setting at 1 as I’ve seen two trades by Phillies and the nationals ( not with each other) to other teams..looks to be for depth at the time 7 games into the season...I’m liking the setting at that level as well.


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[Rmiok222]

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Maybe I had a weird streak but with the new sliders I had king Felix walk me 5 batters in a row. Love the sliders tho. I personally put it back to 5 and 5 instead of 4 and 6


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[louthedew]

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Maybe I had a weird streak but with the new sliders I had king Felix walk me 5 batters in a row. Love the sliders tho. I personally put it back to 5 and 5 instead of 4 and 6


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Don’t worry about the small sample size. Baseball is a game where it should eventually equal out. If you’re making changes make sure to focus on the large scale data


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[Mike Lowe]

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Don’t worry about the small sample size. Baseball is a game where it should eventually equal out. If you’re making changes make sure to focus on the large scale data


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Agreed. I was skeptical of ever changing that slider too, but I'm really liking the results so far.

I have just 8 games left in this 2017 season. Every pitch of every game.

[Mike Lowe]

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I'm going to stream a hugely-important series against the Rockies tonight. If you're around, come pop in!

[Mike Lowe]

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Streaming some late night MLB The Show. Game 156 of my carryover save. I've played every pitch of every game since over a year ago!

Playoff push, Stanton approaching 60 HRs

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[NolanRyansSnowmonkey]

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Don’t worry about the small sample size. Baseball is a game where it should eventually equal out. If you’re making changes make sure to focus on the large scale data.

Agreed. I was skeptical of ever changing that slider too, but I'm really liking the results so far.

I have just 8 games left in this 2017 season. Every pitch of every game.

Loving the sliders and the Youtube streams and videos, Mike!

Speaking of large scale data, do you keep track of total stats in the areas we focus on the most, namely stats like human babip, batting average, hr, xbh, etc, since the first game these sliders were used?

Just curious of what people are seeing as a whole after accumulating 20 or more games.

Mine look pretty good game to game, but when I average out all the games, my babip and batting average has crept lower and lower without really noticing it. But overall they are both too low. I'm usually a really good hitter as I'm very patient and selective and make good contact.

I'm seeing .260 babip and I was surprised babip was relatively quite a bit below .300 by MLB standards, because the games look right visually. Although sometimes I think ground balls are still gobbled up quite a bit even with fielder reaction on 2. But maybe somehow I'm not hitting ground balls hard enough for whatever reason these days. Not sure how to remedy that within myself.

.260 doesn't seem too low at a glance until you realize that the very worst team in MLB every year has over .270 babip. (Cleveland being the sole exception so far this year but it will go up).

Mainly trying to figure out if it's just me so I can figure out what I'm doing wrong this year, if so. I play with a variety of good and bad hitting teams.

Would love to see some statistics you and others are seeing, not including games from last year obviously, now that we've accumulated a decent stretch of games.

It very well could be that I'm just doing something at the plate that is negatively affecting how hard I hit balls this year.

[hllback23]

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I’ve been using the sliders in my Franchise with the Yankees. My record is 3-7, I’m on a 4 game loosing streak.

I use guess pitch and when I get a fastball up in the zone (strike) I place my PCI right on the ball and what happens next after I make solid contact with the ball, is it floats softly to short or second base where the defender takes a step and casually catches it for an out. It doesn’t make a difference if it’s a contact swing or power swing and it doesn’t matter if it’s Judge or Didi, same results. It almost feels like a glitch because I get perfect timing on the ball.


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[richnav]

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I’m wondering does anyone else see an out fielder like start walking sometimes while going after a deep hit


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[richnav]

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I’m also wondering if there is a problem with the pitcher confidence it seems like my relief pitchers always come in with crazy low confidence


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[NolanRyansSnowmonkey]

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I’m wondering does anyone else see an out fielder like start walking sometimes while going after a deep hit


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Not sure about that exactly, but I saw the third baseman miss a ball down the line and it went into the corner and the third baseman chased it all the way down the line, running past the left fielder who just stood there and watched him run by. Left fielder never moved and the third baseman retrieved the ball from the outfield corner.

So it wouldn't surprise me to see what you saw. There are definitely a few scattered bugs but not often enough to take too much away from it. I'm loving the game.

[dman08]

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I’m wondering does anyone else see an out fielder like start walking sometimes while going after a deep hit


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I have seen this myself. I don't know if it's the game in general or the fact that we turned fielder speed down. It looks ugly but i just kind of chalk it up as a bloop but that he couldn't get to

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Mike Lowe MLB The Show '18 Sliders

Like these a lot Mike. Using everything except I have pitch speed at 9 and, my question, I have SP stamina at 7 and RP stamina at 3. Wondering why you settled on 5 for both (sorry if you explain or discuss it elsewhere).

In my experience RP at 5 tends to have RPs available at full or near-full stamina quite a bit, even on three consecutive days. I much prefer it so that a RP is “unavailable” the day after a longish outing and certainly unavailable after pitching two or three days in a row. Not really seeing that with RP stamina at 5.

And as for SP stamina, just today I had Daniel Norris (70 stamina) run out of energy (literally “out of energy”) at 85 pitches. Seems like if I had SP stamina at 5 he would have been out of energy at 75 or even 70 pitches, which is patently ridiculous. Just wondering your thoughts. Cheers man. Great sliders.


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[Mike Lowe]

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Loving the sliders and the Youtube streams and videos, Mike!

Speaking of large scale data, do you keep track of total stats in the areas we focus on the most, namely stats like human babip, batting average, hr, xbh, etc, since the first game these sliders were used?

Just curious of what people are seeing as a whole after accumulating 20 or more games.

Mine look pretty good game to game, but when I average out all the games, my babip and batting average has crept lower and lower without really noticing it. But overall they are both too low. I'm usually a really good hitter as I'm very patient and selective and make good contact.

I'm seeing .260 babip and I was surprised babip was relatively quite a bit below .300 by MLB standards, because the games look right visually. Although sometimes I think ground balls are still gobbled up quite a bit even with fielder reaction on 2. But maybe somehow I'm not hitting ground balls hard enough for whatever reason these days. Not sure how to remedy that within myself.

.260 doesn't seem too low at a glance until you realize that the very worst team in MLB every year has over .270 babip. (Cleveland being the sole exception so far this year but it will go up).

Mainly trying to figure out if it's just me so I can figure out what I'm doing wrong this year, if so. I play with a variety of good and bad hitting teams.

Would love to see some statistics you and others are seeing, not including games from last year obviously, now that we've accumulated a decent stretch of games.

It very well could be that I'm just doing something at the plate that is negatively affecting how hard I hit balls this year.

Yes, and mine are in-line. Heck, it's how I built this set years ago. It's good you're tracking, and now you have a base to make any potential adjustments from.