sadly, this is what makes my day...

[il blood il]

i drew 8 walks in a single game...with the royals, francueor walked 4 times himself...and to make it even better but it was jered weaver who walked 6 of the 8 men...

[beantownbruins]

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i drew 8 walks in a single game...with the royals, francueor walked 4 times himself...and to make it even better but it was jered weaver who walked 6 of the 8 men...

Nothing sad about that, I'm always just as proud to draw a walk as I am to hit a homerun. I've never had 8 though, nice job man!

[Knight165]

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Eight IS awesome.
I think that's great.
I played a game yesterday.....one of the few I actually play...and had 4 walks through the first four innings....I was thinking I was going to cruise to a win....but the CPU changed pitchers...it threw me off and I struck out 7 times in the final 5 innings including a K to end the game with the winning runs on base.

I was still happy to have walked four times. Even in the loss.

M.K.
Knight165

[emath]

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3 was the most I ever got last year, and just one this year (and that came in a game I played last night, and is the ONLY one I have in ALL games this year, lol)

[heater26_99]

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I'd rather have 8 walks than HR's, niiiiiice. It gives you a cool sense of realism that you can look up and see the pitch count semi high for the CPU.

[spit_bubble]

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My high so far is 6, though one was intentional.

I've basically spent most of my time with this game trying to adjust sliders to get a realistic amount of walks, and have come pretty close so far.

BBs are a small but very important part of adding to the realism of a game. If you aren't getting to that average of approximately 3 per game, per team, then it's going to throw all the other numbers off as well.

So being able to both draw and issue walks at a somewhat realistic pace in this game is huge. I think they've done a good job with that this year.

[JoeC]

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Last night in my Cubs franchise I drew back to back 4 pitch walks to start the game vs wandy rodriguez. First time I have ever had something like that happen to start a game. I ended up drawing 5 walks total for the game.

The most walks in a game with MLB 11 has been 9 in an exibition game vs the nationals.

[lw22]

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i drew 8 walks in a single game...with the royals, francueor walked 4 times himself...and to make it even better but it was jered weaver who walked 6 of the 8 men...

That's very nice.

The most BB I've had is 6. Only averaging about 1.5 per game.

[Armor and Sword]

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Great job.

Most I have drawn with this years game is 6 and oh yes it felt so good.

I have been able to draw 3 to 4 a game and had a couple of 5 walk games thus far. Walks are there if you work that count. And I will say it again...on 0-2 and 1-2 counts the Contact swing is fantastic. I am really having some **** 10-12 pitch battles and then working the count back to 3-2...and getting the walks.

The CPU does pitch around hot guys and star hitters. A-Rod has been on a a tear (11 HR's through 19 games...insane) and I have been getting pitched around in my last 4 games. He has drawn 5 walks in the last 4 games.

[il blood il]

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i actually looked at last yr team stats for BBs and SOs...if you can draw 2-4 walks a game, then its realistic...if you can strikeout 7-9 times a game, thats realistic as well...i always shoot for 2, if i get that early, then i try for 4...i pretty much just try to get to a full count every abat and hope i can lay off the low changeup/slider..

[torpidbeaver]

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Nothing sad about that, I'm always just as proud to draw a walk as I am to hit a homerun. I've never had 8 though, nice job man!

Exactly this, man. I even made a thread about it.

I've never hit 8. I've eked out 6 walks in a game.

I'm still last in the league in walks, but at least I'm tied for last, so it's not like it's some crazy statistical outlier.

[snailbiscuit]

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I have no trouble getting the opposing pitcher's pitch count up, I just can't quite seem to get that 4th ball frequently.

I just finished a great game about an hour ago where I got Roy Halladay to throw 101 pitches in 4 and 1/3 innings. I got 10 hits and 4 runs but only walked once. I got to a 3 ball count probably 6 or 7 times, but he just kept throwing borderline pitch after borderline pitch that I just couldn't lay off of due to the often times horrible variable strikezone.

Most I've had in a game is 4 off of Chris Carpenter. It's weird I drive the pitch count up better and draw more walks against top flight pitchers than I do against scrubs. As a matter of fact, Nelson Figueroa took a no hitter to the 8th against me and then took another to the 7th. Yet, Halladay can't get out of the 5th inning!

[antilowpe]

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In 16 games, I've drown 60 walks (3.75 per game) good for 6th place in the majors.

My problem is I have about 6-7 walks with a bunch of players (Dunn Konerko Quentin Rios Beckham Pierre). I want my walk numbers to be close to the "fear" a batter could put on a pitcher.

IRL, Dunn will be walked 100 times a season whereas Pierre will draw about 50 walks. In my franchise, I could end with maybe 60 walks with Dunn but 60 also with Pierre.

Maybe one solution is having a "fear" rating for each batter (different from plate vision/discipline). For example, Pujols would have a 99 "fear" rating, meaning the opposite pitcher will throw it a ton of borderline pitches and of course miss it.
And a guy like Pudge would have a 20 "fear" rating.

I know in a certain way this is how some ratings are working but maybe that another rating could influence more the battle between pitcher/batter.

You could also think that a "fear sensitivity" rating could be add to the pitchers. A Cliff Lee guy will rather throw a strike even to Pujols in a 3-1 count than a Scott Kazmir.

Just a thought !

[cardsleadtheway]

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I just played a game against the Yankees where I walked 11 times. I ended up winning the game 6-2 with only 4 hits. Every inning, Campbell would say "it isn't often a team has more runs than hits." I also struck out 9 times, and hit into 4 double plays. I still felt good about the effort though, as I chased their starter and two long relievers.

[Siddo4ty4]

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3 was the most I ever got last year, and just one this year (and that came in a game I played last night, and is the ONLY one I have in ALL games this year, lol)

Almost like me. I rarely get walks..