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Old 04-08-2019, 09:42 PM   #381
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Is there a place I can look at the new 3D improvements?
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Old 04-09-2019, 07:22 PM   #382
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Can bench/hitting/pitching coaches now get hired elsewhere as a manager before their contracts are up?
This is legitimately the one feature I keep waiting for.
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Old 05-10-2019, 11:45 PM   #383
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you didn't know who mike trout was until last year? yeah you didn't just drift away, you were lost at sea! lol
Same story here. The roid era pretty much killed it for me. I still played and coached but stopped watching entirely. I couldn't name 2 players right now and I can only name 1 because baseball news sometimes slips through my normal news feeds (Machado who got signed on the padres recently... cant remember his 1st name though). I just looked up trout a few seconds ago lol.

I play OOTP with fictitious players only.

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Old 05-11-2019, 02:48 AM   #384
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Same story here. The roid era pretty much killed it for me. I still played and coached but stopped watching entirely. I couldn't name 2 players right now and I can only name 1 because baseball news sometimes slips through my normal news feeds (Machado who got signed on the padres recently... cant remember his 1st name though). I just looked up trout a few seconds ago lol.

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i find this incredibly sad...
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Old 05-12-2019, 08:38 PM   #385
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i find this incredibly sad...
MLB loss is OOTP gain
I am not that old and have no joy in watching MLB.
My baseball fix is by playing, simming (OOTP is not quite there yet...please improve pbp and have stats equal to baseball ref), listening to old baseball radio broadcasts
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Old 05-15-2019, 02:05 PM   #386
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I think the game has gotten too static: too many of the Three True Outcomes for me. De juicing the ball would help with homeruns but K rates are nearing 1 per inning and I don’t have a great answer to fix that.
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Old 05-15-2019, 10:55 PM   #387
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I think the game has gotten too static: too many of the Three True Outcomes for me. De juicing the ball would help with homeruns but K rates are nearing 1 per inning and I don’t have a great answer to fix that.
Agreed about the HR rate. Candidly, for me at least, I think highlight-reel outfield plays are fun and cool to see; I want to see more of those and more great fielding in general; it makes the game more dynamic in a way. So, I agree with your point that the whole HR or Strike-out thing gets a bit stale after a bit.

And the thrill of an HR, which in part, like soccer's point scoring rate, was related to the fact that it happens, but not too often; so it seems to be losing some of its glean. I guess, MLB really did have a good balance in the past.

But I think the HR rate is not just related to the ball; the changes (stitching and I think some internal issues?) are also being delivered into an age that from what I understand, now has smaller park dimensions on average, than at any time in MLB history. Also, add to that the power-pitchers that are now in vogue, and I guess you have what you see currently.

Anyway, you are right. No easy fix.

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Old 05-17-2019, 09:30 AM   #388
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Only a tiny number of players use feeder leagues because they're crude and not an efficient use of resources IMHO. Not because they're opposed to feeder leagues. Personally I love that stuff and would be all over it, but it just doesn't play out well IRL.
I absolutely wanted feeder leagues for my playthrough and did a bunch of testing to get them working well enough for me. It adds so much to the story of the league that I couldn't imagine not using them anymore. There are still some needed changes with them based on player creation and movement, but the feeder league filled MLB is moving along just fine.

What I mean by that comment is that I agree that they are crude and the reason nobody uses them. However, I also don't feel that they are a lost cause and should still be worked on.

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Old 05-18-2019, 11:00 AM   #389
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I think the game has gotten too static: too many of the Three True Outcomes for me. De juicing the ball would help with homeruns but K rates are nearing 1 per inning and I don’t have a great answer to fix that.
Unscrewing the superchargers off the baseballs would also help to keep strikeouts from spiralling all out of control, because hitting for the fences is not going to be as much of a successful strategy anymore. Hitters would actually have to be a bit more selective, slap a single for a change, and hey, maybe exploit the wide open side of the field the shift is giving you?
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If memory serves, the actual effect shifts seem to have is kind of low...
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"Specialist" Secondary Role

Hello,

I noticed that, as opposed to previous versions of the game, instead of having "lefty specialist" as an option for relief pitchers' secondary roles, it is now just "specialist". Does this mean if I gave a right-handed relief pitcher the secondary role of "specialist", it would be as a right-handed specialist? Thanks.
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Old 06-06-2019, 01:28 PM   #392
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Hello,

I noticed that, as opposed to previous versions of the game, instead of having "lefty specialist" as an option for relief pitchers' secondary roles, it is now just "specialist". Does this mean if I gave a right-handed relief pitcher the secondary role of "specialist", it would be as a right-handed specialist? Thanks.
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Old 06-06-2019, 01:30 PM   #393
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Hello,

I noticed that, as opposed to previous versions of the game, instead of having "lefty specialist" as an option for relief pitchers' secondary roles, it is now just "specialist". Does this mean if I gave a right-handed relief pitcher the secondary role of "specialist", it would be as a right-handed specialist? Thanks.
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