Stances with slap/Japan swing types?

[MrOldboy]

Quote: Originally Posted by bayman

Note to anyone checking: slap swing (and I assume Japan swing) only works from the left hand side, the switch hitters like Hamilton don't do it when hitting from the right side

Yep, but I expected this to be the case. A right handed "slap" swing is fairly hard to pull off I feel and there aren't any right handed Japanese hitters in the league right now. Maybe next year they can add it in for players like Hamilton and Bonifacio (who doesn't even have a slap from the left side I think).

[Bkaminsky88]

Anybody realize that you can't slap hit in rtts?

[justcallmedaddy]

I'm not really sure, but maybe Alejandro De Aza? You may have to look at him.

[MrOldboy]

Quote: Originally Posted by Bkaminsky88

Anybody realize that you can't slap hit in rtts?

Yep, first thing I tested as I wanted to make a speedy slap CF. Had to go in and make sure I didn't mess it up in the editor, but its just not there in game. Why not have them in RTTS? I don't get it.

[bayman]

I asked during the live stream what the chances were of them adding the ability to assign these swings this year. Russell talked about it but I couldn't hear the answer and it didn't archive. Anyone else hear it?

[Aensland]

fwiw Shin Soo Choo is South Korean and he doesn't have that type of swing.

[CJ10]

Quote: Originally Posted by MrOldboy

Yep, first thing I tested as I wanted to make a speedy slap CF. Had to go in and make sure I didn't mess it up in the editor, but its just not there in game. Why not have them in RTTS? I don't get it.

Because the shows motto is "wait till next year". I have been asking for correct follow throughs for years now, they finally add some, but you cant use them with any other player but the player they belong to. Its ridiculous.

[bayman]

Quote: Originally Posted by Aensland

fwiw Shin Soo Choo is South Korean and he doesn't have that type of swing.

It's worth nothing in the context of the thread. His nationality has nothing to do with the type of follow through he was given in the game. And in the game he has the same follow through as Ichiro and the other Japanese type swingers.