[Grafton19]

Originally Posted by DaBears

I play out all games, typically playing manager-only.

The issue you will likely have with doing pitch by pitch is sheer boredom after a while. I don’t know a number, but maybe 60% of pitches (IRL and in OOTP), nothing happens. Kershaw throws the ball, some guy catches the ball. IRL, there is an art to that. I could watch Kershaw throw a curve or slider on TV all day long. Ditto Rivera’s cutter, or just watch Maddux paint corners at 89mph. It’s fun. In OOTP, there is none of that, and can’t be.

I enjoy the strategy of the game pitch by pitch, so tend to go one pitch until there is a reason not to, like a batter is at the plate where strategy might matter (I might pitch around Trout at 3-1 more than your average player, but don’t want to necessarily pitch around the entire at-bat), when a speedy runner gets on-base for the other team (in OOTP, you pay a huge price for hold runner in one pitch mode, so maybe I only hold at 0-0 and 2-0, but not at 0-2), and then as others have said, from the 7th on (could be 6th on, or just 9th - not much need to slow play it ina 14-2 game in May).

One pitch will keep you much more interested, and then use PxP when it’s intriguing to do so. Just my two cents.

Totally can see that, but I kind of look at the pitch location screen to take my eyes off of the play-by-play which makes it a little more fun. Plus when I win I get satisfaction of making the right decisions which more times than not one decision I made killed me and that’s OK because I know I made it. CPU AI is so much better that you can’t screw up too much