Armor & Swords MLB The Show 20 Classic/Directional Clean Screen Simulation Sliders

[Joey2410]

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Actually doing a Jays franchise right now. Their prospects were more MLB ready etc.

Boy was I wrong. One through 9 struggling, 4 different players at or under .200, every arm struggling except Ryu. Lowest bullpen ERA is 4.53.

I expected to be challenged for a WC position but at this point we’re fighting Baltimore to stay out of the basement of the AL East lol.

I play as my Os, and it’s pretty tough. Feel like when it gets turned around it’ll feel great!

[JordanWolfsteiner]

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I play as my Os, and it’s pretty tough. Feel like when it gets turned around it’ll feel great!

That’s what I keep thinking too, it’ll feel great when it gets turned around but it’s tough to stay the course.

I’m starting to think it’s my abilities this cycle playing on HOF. I’ve followed Armor’s settings/sliders to a tee for many cycles now but this is easily the hardest I’ve ever struggled.

[The Craigler]

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I’ve noticed the past two games I’ve played, the opposing starting pitcher is totally gassed on the energy meter by the 4th inning. Pitch count is relatively low, so I’m not sure what is happening. Anyone else seeing this? I’m using Armour’s sliders in the OP.


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[Armor and Sword]

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I’ve noticed the past two games I’ve played, the opposing starting pitcher is totally gassed on the energy meter by the 4th inning. Pitch count is relatively low, so I’m not sure what is happening. Anyone else seeing this? I’m using Armour’s sliders in the OP.


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I need to know what those pitch counts look like.

I have noticed a quicker hook as the season wears on but I also notice pitchers not starting with full energy as the season wears on and depending on schedules.

I have worked guys to 70-75 pitches going into the 5th and out they go.

And that is what happens to most guys in the MLB.

5 and fly is a huge trend in MLB today. Been trending like this for 3-4 years now.

Most guys don’t get to the 6th inning IRL.


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[JordanWolfsteiner]

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I need to know what those pitch counts look like.

I have noticed a quicker hook as the season wears on but I also notice pitchers not starting with full energy as the season wears on and depending on schedules.

I have worked guys to 70-75 pitches going into the 5th and out they go.

And that is what happens to most guys in the MLB.

5 and fly is a huge trend in MLB today. Been trending like this for 3-4 years now.

Most guys don’t get to the 6th inning IRL.


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Trevor Bauer led the league last year with 213 IP. Stretch that out over his 34 starts and that's an average of 6.2 innings per start and he's an absolute workhorse.

Only 6 starting pitchers hit the 200 inning mark last season, compared to 7 in 2018.

Agreed that this is the new norm and I think the sliders represent that to a tee.

[hunterdawgs10]

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Just to piggyback off what Armor said regarding the pitcher not being at full stamina at the start of the game..

This makes days off crucial! I had a pitcher that couldn't ever get to full stamina, I had to push him to the low yellow and red quite a few starts just to get him through the 5th and not burn the bullpen up. I'm 35 games into the season and that pitcher has just now recovered enough to be at 100% for his next start.

[JoshC1977]

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Just to piggyback off what Armor said regarding the pitcher not being at full stamina at the start of the game..

This makes days off crucial! I had a pitcher that couldn't ever get to full stamina, I had to push him to the low yellow and red quite a few starts just to get him through the 5th and not burn the bullpen up. I'm 35 games into the season and that pitcher has just now recovered enough to be at 100% for his next start.

I LOVE that about this year's game. I've been forced to make some tough choices because of it. It also doesn't help that I've had 4 different SPs go down to injuries in just the first month and a half of the season (2 are still on the IL). The games where they exit early wind-up putting a major crimp on my pitching staff for a good week unless I have an off-day.

[Rmiok222]

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Trevor Bauer led the league last year with 213 IP. Stretch that out over his 34 starts and that's an average of 6.2 innings per start and he's an absolute workhorse.

Only 6 starting pitchers hit the 200 inning mark last season, compared to 7 in 2018.

Agreed that this is the new norm and I think the sliders represent that to a tee.

Chalk that up to Francona. He’s not scared to let his guys throw 130 pitches if they’re looking okay lol


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[JordanWolfsteiner]

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Chalk that up to Francona. He’s not scared to let his guys throw 130 pitches if they’re looking okay lol


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Exactly lol. I think it really speaks volumes about where the game is it and where it's headed. I remember a time when pitchers weren't considered an ace unless they went well over 200 innings. Now the best pitchers in the game don't reach that mark or barely do.

[vertman]

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Exactly lol. I think it really speaks volumes about where the game is it and where it's headed. I remember a time when pitchers weren't considered an ace unless they went well over 200 innings. Now the best pitchers in the game don't reach that mark or barely do.

NOLAN RYAN. Pitchers today couldn’t hold a candle to him. Baseball has been my life. It’s really tough to not watch the Yanks every night or any baseball for that matter. I definitely like the way the game was played 30-40 years ago as opposed to today . Still love the game but it’s so different for obvious reasons


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[bcruise]

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You absolutely should be aiming pitches outside the zone with regularity imo. I’m throwing outside the zone like 50% of the time at least. And not just when I’m getting hit, I mean almost all the time.

A few reasons for this:

1) You can get exceptional movement and location from stuff aimed off the zone, to the point where they are invariably some of your nastiest pitches.

2) As the pitcher, balls are yours to play with, that’s what they’re there for - they’re your three chances to get him to swing at a piece of trash and nub a slow roller to 3B or pop out into foul territory or something. Use them to your advantage. Don’t wait on poor accuracy to throw your balls for you, distribute them where they make sense, like a 0-2 brushback at a guy’s nose, a 2-2 changup in the dirt, three straight sliders away after getting up 0-2 with a couple of fastballs, etc.

3) I find allowing a walk or three is not nearly as bad as allowing hits. Yeah it’s still scary and you’re still in the stretch but man if you can get out of the inning you’ve still got that zero in the hit column. That’s just friggin huge compared to an inning with three hits allowed imo.

Plus everyone always lead the league in fewest BB allowed anyway, the more the better imo. Would much rather have a laborious inning with 1 hit 3 walks and 1 run on 38 pitches than I would let things slip away and allow a slew of hits on 16 pitches or whatever.

There’s also the very real chance there’s just nothing you can do. You don’t get the calls, you walk a guy you didn’t mean to, low confidence, error, boom five-run inning. Sometimes that’s just gonna happen. When it does I just start pitching to contact and pray for quick innings lol.

This is such a great post top to bottom. Absolutely agree with intentionally throwing out of the zone when the count dictates it. The execution of that strategy is a little different for me as a meter player, but the concept is the same.

As a general rule, the only pitches I mean to intentionally throw in the zone are fastball-types (and sinkers are an edge case because they have downward movement that can generate easy outs when thrown out of the zone). Sliders, curves, and changeups I almost never try to land in the zone, even on corners - I aim them well off the plate and let the natural inaccuracy and ratings dictate what happens from there. Sometimes I'll get chases on something that dives out of the zone, other times I'll throw a breaking pitch that actually ends up catching a corner for a called strike when I aimed well off of it (those are usually the ones that end up hanging in the middle when you aim to a corner, btw). If I get neither of those, it's a ball - and I have several of those to use as a pitcher.

[MOJOMORRO]

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Quick question: How do I un-injure players in this game? I know I've read somewhere you can do it but I want to make sure if I do it it doesn't throw off other injuries. Had Jack Flaherty apparently break his forearm while catching an underhanded flip running to first base and I just can't lose him for 2-3 months off something like that. If he did it throwing a pitch or got hit with a ball then fine and maybe if he was gonna miss a start or two I could joke in my head that the runner collided with him and messed up his wrist but damn no way my whole season ends in the first month because of something that is actually physically impossible.

[Armor and Sword]

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Quick question: How do I un-injure players in this game? I know I've read somewhere you can do it but I want to make sure if I do it it doesn't throw off other injuries. Had Jack Flaherty apparently break his forearm while catching an underhanded flip running to first base and I just can't lose him for 2-3 months off something like that. If he did it throwing a pitch or got hit with a ball then fine and maybe if he was gonna miss a start or two I could joke in my head that the runner collided with him and messed up his wrist but damn no way my whole season ends in the first month because of something that is actually physically impossible.

Go to your profile....game options....general settings advanced set injuries to manual.

Then go to the injured list screen R1 and then remove the injury (you can also add injuries too).

Then go back to that setting and toggle back to on. Or you will not see injures if you leave it set to manual.

[Rmiok222]

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Quick question: How do I un-injure players in this game? I know I've read somewhere you can do it but I want to make sure if I do it it doesn't throw off other injuries. Had Jack Flaherty apparently break his forearm while catching an underhanded flip running to first base and I just can't lose him for 2-3 months off something like that. If he did it throwing a pitch or got hit with a ball then fine and maybe if he was gonna miss a start or two I could joke in my head that the runner collided with him and messed up his wrist but damn no way my whole season ends in the first month because of something that is actually physically impossible.

Go to settings, scroll to where injuries are (I think it’s under general. I’m not infront of my ps4) set to “manual”. Go back to franchise main menu screen. Go to injured player screen. Hit X on Jack Flaherty. Then remove injury.

After this don’t forget to set injuries back to “on” or you’ll never see any injuries anywhere.


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[Rmiok222]

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Go to your profile....game options....general settings advanced set injuries to manual.



Then go to the injured list screen R1 and then remove the injury (you can also add injuries too).



Then go back to that setting and toggle back to on. Or you will not see injures if you leave it set to manual.

Beat me to it lol


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