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Originally Posted by injury log
I think some posts above are making way too big a deal about what is essentially a minor addition to the game, and others are understanding the purpose perfectly.
In real life, a manager can opt to 'call a game' from the dugout. You can't do that in OOTP (at least not yet), but an OOTP manager should at least be able to give some vague instructions to his pitcher. A 'pitch to contact' option at least allows the manager to tell his pitcher to try to stay in the zone, to keep his pitch count down, and to not throw 'chase pitches'. As I pointed out above, it's not an option you'd want to use very often, since strikeouts are good. But it at least adds to the options available when playing out games, and I can't see how that's a bad thing.
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I disagree if it is too effective. In the 500-700 games I watch per season a re-occurring story is the inability of most pitchers to "pitch to contact". As I said earlier, this feature needs to be combined with a "nibbles at corners when I have a big lead" rating or it is artificial.
A manager can presume to call the game from the dugout but it must match the pitchers capabilty or it's not realistic.
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