Strike zone

[Baseball Purist]

Will the show ever implement a consistent strike zone? I mean every single game is simply CB Bucknor level bad behind the plate. Pitches that are completely in the strike zone are hardly ever missed in real life, but yet its hard to go a full inning without seeing this once in the show.

At this point should we not have consistent umpires? How hard is it to have specific umpires that either have a small or big strike zone. One pitch can be a strike, and then you follow up the next pitch in the same exact location and its a BALL?!

I think the biggest indicator in the strike zone logic needs to be reworked are the warm up pitches. Balls completely in the zone are often called balls, DURING WARM UPS!

[forme95]

Does the real MLB have consistent strike zones? Do real life umpires make mistake calls? I think the strike zones in the game are perfect and don't need to be reworked or changed at all.

You can have actual perfect strike zones however. In settings, you can set umpires to direct I believe instead of personal. Ive never used the setting, but I believe it will call anything in the box a strike and anything out a ball.

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[Caulfield]

I imagine we'll get perfect umps when real life baseball does.
That is to say, when humans stop making video games and Skynet starts.
I personally love it that the Show umps make me as mad as IRL do.

[Robo COP]

feel like it's much improved this year

[Baseball Purist]

Quote: Originally Posted by forme95

Does the real MLB have consistent strike zones? Do real life umpires make mistake calls? I think the strike zones in the game are perfect and don't need to be reworked or changed at all. You can have actual perfect strike zones however. In settings, you can set umpires to direct I believe instead of personal. Ive never used the setting, but I believe it will call anything in the box a strike and anything out a ball. Sent from my LG-D850 using Tapatalk

Um yes, umpires have consistent strike zones. Some will call high, some will call low, small big.Do they miss calls, yes. My issue is, the shows umpire never have any consistency with their calls. To hear the commentators say, this is how so and so calls the game..to then watch them be utterly random on every pitch is just bad.

I dont want them to be perfect. Heck i dont mind bad called games. But pitch to pitch, inning to inning, its all over the place. Pitchers and batters look for the umps tendencies early in the game. In the show, they have no tendency. Its completely random on if it will be a ball or strike. Again the warm pitches illustrate this the best.

[forme95]

Quote: Originally Posted by Baseball Purist

Um yes, umpires have consistent strike zones. Some will call high, some will call low, small big.Do they miss calls, yes. My issue is, the shows umpire never have any consistency with their calls. To hear the commentators say, this is how so and so calls the game..to then watch them be utterly random on every pitch is just bad. I dont want them to be perfect. Heck i dont mind bad called games. But pitch to pitch, inning to inning, its all over the place. Pitchers and batters look for the umps tendencies early in the game. In the show, they have no tendency. Its completely random on if it will be a ball or strike. Again the warm pitches illustrate this the best.

I understand what you are saying. I know what you mean also. Umps arent consistent though. Ive seen plenty of games (real life games just this year so far) where 1 pitch low and out is called a strike and the next pitch put in that exact area (and close to the same spot be called a ball and it was actually in the zone that time and closer to if not actually a strike. Umpires for the most part are all horrid this year. Which will lead to the "electronic strike zone" talk again. Which by the way, I am 100% totally against. Pitchers just have so much movement, that I can watch a catcher clearly move his glove 3 ft (maybe a slight exaggeration) and the umpire will buy it. But thats real life, and this is a game. So I will say, it does happen, but it may happen more in MLBTS. Im ok with it though. It makes the game a better challenge when the pitcher is trying to paint the corners and its a win some lose some. Its helped me and has hurt me.

[JayCutlersCig]

Quote: Originally Posted by Baseball Purist

Will the show ever implement a consistent strike zone? I mean every single game is simply CB Bucknor level bad behind the plate. Pitches that are completely in the strike zone are hardly ever missed in real life, but yet its hard to go a full inning without seeing this once in the show. At this point should we not have consistent umpires? How hard is it to have specific umpires that either have a small or big strike zone. One pitch can be a strike, and then you follow up the next pitch in the same exact location and its a BALL?! I think the biggest indicator in the strike zone logic needs to be reworked are the warm up pitches. Balls completely in the zone are often called balls, DURING WARM UPS!

Strike zones in real life are inconsistent. One AB, I’ll find myself laughing at my own luck, and others, it’s cursing it. The Umps in this game have varying strike zones, which I absolutely love.


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[dazzelle]

Quote: Originally Posted by Baseball Purist

My issue is, the shows umpire never have any consistency with their calls. To hear the commentators say, this is how so and so calls the game..to then watch them be utterly random on every pitch is just bad.

Have to agree with this, a umpires trait/personality needs to be 100% accurate so as to distinguish them from each other.

The umpire in my last game was described as a offensive players dream as he squeezed pitchers east-west. I can't say that i saw anymore pitches that were 50 50 called strikes but i did notice when pitches clearly inside the zone were called balls.