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Originally Posted by My993C2 |
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How is this unrealistic? Please educate me, I am new to RTTS and I have never played real world baseball at an elite level. But one would think that if this was real, I know it's a stretch, that our pitching coaches who have a vested interest in our development would want us to become proficient in what is currently in our tool boxes before we go adding new stuff.
It sounds like the people bringing up the problems around being cast into the DH role have a grip and perhaps there is a problem in the game around power hitters. Is this only occurring on AL organizations? But there two solutions for pitchers.
1) Show some patience, play the games, put in your time and the training opportunity should present itself when our virtual pitching coaches think we are ready.
2) Create a pitcher in MLB 17 that has everything you want and port him over to 18.
I thought RTTS was about the journey not the end destination. I am looking forward to long hard grind through the minor leagues. In my brief time playing MLB 17 RTTS, I found I was progressing too easily. I made it to AAA in less than 10 games if you ignore the 5 games they asked me to be a closer.
So I just wanted you folks to know that apparently there is a way to add new pitch types because I was concerned when it was brought up here and I was prepared to create a pitcher with 4 pitch types in MLB 17. But now that I know I should be presented with the opportunity sometime down the road. I am not worried. I am in no rush to build a MLB Hall of Fame pitcher before next week.
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So with regards to pithing the fact is the system is obscure which is not good design. Either documentation needs to be provided or a public explanation needs to be applied. Simming the seasons should have 0 affect on me getting additional pitches unless they intend for us to sit for 4 or 5 years on 3 pitches in which case we should not be called up to the majors as every starter will tell you that 3 pitches is the fast way to the bullpen for LR or back to the minors.
So what this tells me is either this training is incredibly rare or there is a bug in the system which with SDS would not surprise me in the least. But without documentation of how to gain a new pitch you have no idea of if the system is working or not.
Finally with how gradual training is in this mode you are going to need to start working on the 4th pitch very early in your first year because you will not be able to delay being called up to the majors on simple stat growth alone. In 17 and 16 you could delay getting called up by working solely on your pitches because of how slow your stat growth was relative to your hard stats like bb/9.
Now I could see some logic of starting developing the pitch in the off season which is why I started simming to see if that was what was going to happen and also I was trying to see how the training would go since if it is random like so much of RTTS is this year with regards to training I will be making sure to get at least one of my choice pitches.
Now I could easily cook up a rookie with the 5 pitches I want in 17 but that does not get around the base issue I see right now which is a possibly bugged system and there are plenty of people who sim their AA and AAA seasons I tend no to. But if what you said is true this would wrongfully target those who do that and when they get to the majors they get their faces pushed in.