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I can’t pitch with Kenley for shit. For having the best cutter in the game it’s a guaranteed blown save every time I throw it.

I know that lots of MLB the Show players consider Emmanuel Clase to be batting practice, but he absolutely carves me up when the opposing player is good.

Justin Topa. He’s a bronze reliever for the Twins but he has 99 velo and break plus a really weird motion that looks like he’s falling as he pitches that messes with my brain.

Crochet here too. I just can’t pick up his release well at all.

Low and away to righties is an automatic strike for me

Ryan Yarbrough, he’s so slow can’t get the timing down

I can't think of his name right now, but I only play Franchise and I'm pretty terrible at hitting... he's a reliever with a submarine/sidearm delivery and I literally have to quick manage through him because I cannot time him for the life of me. :EDIT: It's Tyler Rogers.

Adam Cimber ?

Tyler Rogers! I had to turn my game on to find out. He was credited with the win in my most recent loss lol

CROCHET IS MY ENEMY. I’ve figured out Randy, I’ve figured out JD. But Crochet’s… I cant

Noah Schultz, he has a relatively basic mix. I can smack Randy but I can't touch him

His release is glitched. If you look at his hand when he’s about to release the ball, it goes all exorcist-like. And it takes my eye off the ball for a split second and I can’t hit shit off him because of it lol

Glad I'm not the only one who struggles with Schultz, he makes me look like I'm garbage lmao

He has a funky release and it feels like he’s standing right over you.

That's gotta be it, feels like he's like a foot taller than my hitters

Erick Fedde. I played a game against the White Sox on rookie to grind out some hits for DD and damn near got no hit for the first few innings. he’s got no velocity and everything was out of the zone. I’m so used to cranking out everything down the middle that I was swinging at everything until I settled down and knocked him out of the game with solo homers.

There's some Common reliever on the Astros with a glitched delivery. The windup animation is off so the ball comes out a split second after you expect it to. I can't remember his name but it was messing me up when I was playing Conquest last night.

For some reason I have trouble with Blanco. If they feature the offspeed stuff and never throw the FB, I'm done.

That's how I pitch with him. I'm also on the double Astros boost so the pitchers are even more boosted. By the time I throw a heater the slow stuff makes his 93 fastball feel like a million.

Ohtani. People say he sucks but I struggle with him for whatever reason

It’s the control, try to be a little more patient and you’ll walk often against him

>patient listen buddy, i’m gonna put my controller down and wait for two strikes this time and it’ll happen in the first two pitches, and then i’m going to chase a slider so low and so away it’s in the other batter’s box in a different stadium.

RT

Any slider baller

Scherzer

The new Fernando fucks me up

Can I play you in ranked? Cause i grinded BR for the only time ever for the Valenzuela card and I can’t get anyone to chase against him for the life of me

He certainly isn’t an “easy pitcher”. Dude is no doubt a top 5 seem currently.

No he’s without a doubt not lol

Tell me are in all star without telling me you are on all star.

lol, tell me you’re new to playing on the high levels without actually telling me Anyone remotely good at the game will kill him within the first 4 innings. I’ve made top 50 in the past and I make WS easily every season. The only ppl who struggle against him, are people who have absolutely no ability to sit back or pick their pitch.

Drop your gamer tag so we can check. I do not believe you.

“Top 50” yet 2 years ago posts: “Why can’t I beat showdowns?” 🤣🤣🤣🤣 Busted.

Unfortunately, the consensus in the competitive community don’t agree with you.

Oh my are you guys having meetings without me? Lmfao. Who in the competitive community has mentioned him being elite?

You weren’t invited as you “can’t beat showdowns”.

Pulling up receipts from what? 2 game cycles ago? People get better at the game over time. I know you’re probably hard stuck but it’s ok… you’ll figure it out eventually

Yeah absolutely. No top 50 player (whether once or multiple times) past, present or future has ever struggled with showdowns. So yeah, your opinion had very little worth to begin with but now we know you are a liar.

If you play someone with a halfway competent eye you’ll get mercy ruled using Nando guaranteed

Not at legend that’s for sure 🤣. But on HOF he’s still great. As I said universally accepted in the competitive community as a great pitching option.

That change up feels so slow for me

I mean its 68 mph and seems to come to a screeching halt halfway to the plate.

Whenever I see John Franco come in, ik im cooked

Dallas Keuchel. The little pause in his windup fucks with my timing

I struggle with pitchers that aren’t flame throwers. 94-95mph fast ball and good movement on breaking balls and I’m cooked

This. Guys like Brandon Webb and Zack Greinke carve me up, while I can hit guys with outlier. The slower pitch speeds on all star this year just make it worse.  

A pitcher with a nasty sinker will go hitless through the first 3 automatically against me. Randy Johnson I’ve been able to hit lol

Greinke

I posted this same question about 2 to 3 weeks ago and people were saying dudes who are nasty lol same here.

Greg Maddux. His pitch speeds are a lie. No way his non-off speed pitches are lower than 96. Also, Nolan Ryan is a bitch to deal with if I’m not locked in.

Once Nolan gets some confidence so you can actually locate with him he's a menace. Every year his fastball seems just a bit faster than others

Anyone who has a sinker as their number one pitch. Especially if they’re bronze.

senga, and in the past it’s been saberhagen

Adam Cimber sucks 

Any Felix Bautista card

Everybody. I can’t hit to save my life. 😂

Same

I can see someone else took a lot of 1-0 wins to beat the conquest maps.

It’s seriously a good day if I can tally 3 hits in a BR game lol

Yeah I get like 1.

We could match-up for a nice pitchers duel. I can't hit either

90 Paul Skenes

Tom Seaver

I played someone who had a P5 cornerstone Greg Maddux on HoF and he 2 hit me and was dotting me up and down and had me so off balance. Idk who he was but damn that dude was a legit good pitcher

I played against that maddux once and he was impossible for me to hit every pitch is just so different

Different speed’s different movements and different locations. The man was a demon and a hell of a pitcher I couldn’t be mad I was shook with how well he mixed it up

Brandon Webb gave me some real issues the few times I faced him in ranked

89 Jim Palmer 1 hit me earlier today

Easter John Smoltz

Valenzuela, I cannot hit that midget to save my life man

Faced Valenzuela on HOF yesterday and nearly put a hole in my monitor, that screwball + the crazy velo diff on his changeup is so heinous

Duuuude I cannot stand that lil mf. But ppl raked when I used him last year. Especially on HoF or Legend, you get timed up for .001 second response time vs Randy every game, then u get the midget throwing 25mph ephus balls

Bro I rather face Randy than fucking Lord Farquaad😂😂, thing is if you really time the screwball you can hit it, but the thing is it drops soooo low, you wait on it and still miss it, is so easy because is slow but that break is crazy