Pitching, Do you let the catcher select the pitch?

[bulvine]

While pitching, do you let the computer catcher call out the pitches?

[Nick65]

Not any more - I have found it much more fun to call the game myself. Having the catcher call the pitches almost seemed robotic to me. Much more engaging to call the pitches myself.

Either way I still stink

[countryboy]

nope..I pitch what I want when I want.

[chuckm1961]

I tried letting the catcher call pitches at times. For some variety--sometimes I picked the pitch, sometimes I listened to him.

Too often, at a key moment, he would call for a letter-high fastball to someone like Pujols at a key moment in the game.

I took his advice a couple times, thinking the AI must know something I don't.... and whammo, bye-bye baseball.

Now I ignore the catcher.

I would be MUCH more interested in playing off the catchers' signs if: 1) I understood his signals for pitch location; 2) he was not an idiot much of the time; 3) the game had a catcher's signal-calling skill rating; and 4) I could shake off the catcher, and get a different pitch call.

[JayD]

If i like what he is calling then i will pitch the call but if i don't i will pitch what i think is best for the situation. Its annoying to see the catcher call fastball after fastball with no variety.

[MelMan1486]

I pitch his pitches when I like what he's calling, but when he wants a high slider inside the zone against Howard or Manny I shake him off real quick.

[cardsfan2222]

I don't usually follow the catcher's sign. They call for way to many pitches up in the zone, and over the middle of the plate. I stick to hitting the corners, and keeping the ball low.

[chuckm1961]

Am I missing something regarding shake-offs? It's nice to make the pitcher shake his head, but it seems meaningless.

If you shake off the catcher, doesn't he just keep calling the same pitch? That's what I'm seeing.