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Originally Posted by kcharles520
When my pitcher gets 3 ball counts I almost always use "Pitch to Contact." I figured it was a fair, viable strategy--give the opponent easier pitches to hit while slightly reducing the walk rate. Fair tradeoff right?
After 40+ games of using the strategy however, my team has a super low BB/9 compared to the rest of the league, w/ no big difference in batting average against or slugging. In other words, pitch to contact has proven TOO effective, even for pitchers w/ awful control ratings. (I also have an abysmal K/9 rate which bugs me as well.)
Just wanted to bring this up for anyone looking for realistic stats because the way it is coded, this is definitely unrealistic.
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Significantly higher slugging though.
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