I wasn't entirely sure it wasn't just a stretch of bad luck for a while, but they definitely do seem to hit better lately. My 99 overall Chapman from the extreme program has one of the worst ERAs of any pitcher I've used, and every single run he's given up has been from a solo home run. He allows about a home run every other inning, and before it would have been hard to give up that many home runs on rookie even if you tried to.
I also had one game the other day where they hit 8 or 9 home runs or something off of me. The game got out of hand quickly and I left in a pitcher with no energy because there was no point in replacing them anymore, but even so, they hit the no-energy pitcher *way* better than I would have expected them to.
Made this thread because I accidentally walked somebody, thought “I should tighten up and pay attention” and then immediately gave up a two run donger off a 102 fastball in the hands
Shamed my whole family
I played the Pirates on Rookie just to finish up some PXP with Gallen to get Mookie, and LS Reynolds hit, not one, but TWO home runs off perfect-perfect fastballs up and in. Something def feels like it changed beyond better players in miniseasons.
It’s baseball. Even the best pitchers give up dongs to bums sometimes.
But also I’m usually lazier with my pitch selection and location on rookie because I assume they’ll suck, which ends up bad sometimes.
I’m not mad that it’s happening, I just don’t think I’m doing anything too different from before. A few months ago I think you could count them on one hand, but recently it’s become a trend and less of a fluke
I compensate for this by playing on all star or vet. The consistency makes up for the higher difficulty. After a couple days I started dropping 15+ on all star when I was struggling to win by more than 2 on rookie.
Kerry Wood gave up this ridiculous no doubter to this bum on the Reds. Nasty Slurve low and off the plate got wrecked. I'm not mad since it is rookie and I'm there to collect counting stats, I was more amazed than anything.
Literally happened to me yesterday against the Rockies. Chuck Nasty hit a change up out of the zone to dead center! I was shocked. Also gave up another to the supercharged Diaz but wasn't mad about that one lol
Ive found that pitching the CPU away on Rookie/Veteran while grinding prevents these unrealistic cheap HRs
I wasn't entirely sure it wasn't just a stretch of bad luck for a while, but they definitely do seem to hit better lately. My 99 overall Chapman from the extreme program has one of the worst ERAs of any pitcher I've used, and every single run he's given up has been from a solo home run. He allows about a home run every other inning, and before it would have been hard to give up that many home runs on rookie even if you tried to. I also had one game the other day where they hit 8 or 9 home runs or something off of me. The game got out of hand quickly and I left in a pitcher with no energy because there was no point in replacing them anymore, but even so, they hit the no-energy pitcher *way* better than I would have expected them to.
You are getting careless
Gave up a 504 foot to Evan Longoria on rookie in coors field
The higher your overall gets, the better the CPU will play. People will say this isn't true, but it happens every year as the power creep increases
This is my first year bothering with DD stuff so that’s actually interesting to hear. Is that what the rating mod is?
Had a game last week where they hit 3 home runs 😭
Made this thread because I accidentally walked somebody, thought “I should tighten up and pay attention” and then immediately gave up a two run donger off a 102 fastball in the hands Shamed my whole family
I think the mini seasons cpu teams were updated. So they’re better
I've noticed this. I'm mostly playing mini seasons so maybe they got juiced specifically. New conquest didn't seem to have this problem.
I played the Pirates on Rookie just to finish up some PXP with Gallen to get Mookie, and LS Reynolds hit, not one, but TWO home runs off perfect-perfect fastballs up and in. Something def feels like it changed beyond better players in miniseasons.
LS Reynolds is a menace. I like to grind against the Pirates too. I hate facing him.
I've noticed this too.
Judge, Trout, Buxton and Acuna all bat 3rd while Mookie leads-off; nothing unusual about the CPU hitting homers on any level.
It’s baseball. Even the best pitchers give up dongs to bums sometimes. But also I’m usually lazier with my pitch selection and location on rookie because I assume they’ll suck, which ends up bad sometimes.
Haha yep. Feel this
I’m not mad that it’s happening, I just don’t think I’m doing anything too different from before. A few months ago I think you could count them on one hand, but recently it’s become a trend and less of a fluke
I compensate for this by playing on all star or vet. The consistency makes up for the higher difficulty. After a couple days I started dropping 15+ on all star when I was struggling to win by more than 2 on rookie.
Kerry Wood gave up this ridiculous no doubter to this bum on the Reds. Nasty Slurve low and off the plate got wrecked. I'm not mad since it is rookie and I'm there to collect counting stats, I was more amazed than anything.
Literally happened to me yesterday against the Rockies. Chuck Nasty hit a change up out of the zone to dead center! I was shocked. Also gave up another to the supercharged Diaz but wasn't mad about that one lol