Wild Pitches

[AUTiger1]

Instead of creating a new thread to ask this question, I'll ask it here, what pitching sliders do you guys use to get realistic walk totals? If I draw 2 walks that's a good day for me. My last game I drew 3 walks. But here's why that was a bit frustrating. I was facing Sal Romano who had nearly a walk per inning and had more walks than strikeouts. I got a walk to start the game against him and I'm thinking, sure, here we go, it's going to play out the way it should. Well, turns out I only got 2 walks against him in 4 2/3 IP despite the fact that he had 18 walks in 19 2/3 IP coming into the game.

It's not that I'm not patient enough. I'm plenty patient. I've got no issues at all getting to a 2-0 or 2-1 count. But getting those last 2 balls is always a challenge. For example, I'm up 2-0, then there's two absolutely borderline pitches that goes for strikes and now I've got to defend against anything close and I end up hitting a weak pop up by chasing a borderline pitch.


Seems like walks on this year's game aren't as many as previous years. I remember a couple years ago in a game against Roy Halladay of all people I drew 5 walks in just 5 innings against him. That was amazing since Halladay hardly walked anyone in his career.


I'm not much of a sliders person so I'm just wondering what sliders will give me better results in this area.

[NolanRyansSnowmonkey]

Quote: Originally Posted by AUTiger1

Almost always with runners on base and it leads to runs.

I had enchiladas the other night that led to runs.

But i digress..

To your other question about CPU pitching sliders for accurate walks-

I have 2 Franchises both of which i average approx 3 BB per game.

One setup is:
CPU Control - 5
CPU Consistency - 4
CPU Strike Freq -5

The other is:
CPU Control - 5
CPU Consistency - 6
CPU Strike Freq - 4

These are on Legend but will probably play on HOF
Etc also.

My favorite is actually the second set:
CPU Strike % - 63.4% (2018 MLB is 63.7%)
CPU 1st Pitch Strike % - 60.1% (2018 MLB 60.4%)

Perfect. I love everything about that second set on Legend.

The first set may be my favorite actually... I dont know lol. Its its right at 64% and almost 60%. Both really perform about the same actually.

[Unlucky 13]

Is this the first year where a wild pitch can bounce into the dugout, leading to a runner on base getting two bags? I'd never seen it before, but I've won two games in 18 because of this. I was very surprised and confused the first time.