MLB The Show 16 Twitch Stream - Gameplay and Animation (Archive Available)

[dran1984]

Quote: Originally Posted by bama2032

100% agree with this! I have asked SCEA multiple times to add the ability to edit color of the catchers mask and cannot even get them to respond as to by they won't or can't.

Another thing they need to update are the team jackets that the managers and pitchers wear.

[tnixen]

Quote: Originally Posted by NEOPARADIGM

I guess they're just never going to update the classic catcher's masks, huh? I think this might be the 5th year a row I've made this post. vs. What is with that tan padding? When was the last time you saw a mask like that? Why are they STILL not color-coordinated with the uniform? Nobody wears that mask. And yes, I'm aware of masks that look like this: But that isn't what's being represented either. You can select specific colors for six different parts of a batting glove, but you get one classic catcher's mask, and it's tan and tan only. I just don't get it. Year after year after year.

Sony did not have enough time to get it in this year. I am pretty sure they want to do it and I bet anything its on there list just not really high on the list right now. But I bet it makes it into 17.

[tnixen]

I played 4 games in a row this afternoon and must have had like 8 broken bats. I wonder if this was cut down some for 16?

[Blzer]

Quote: Originally Posted by tnixen

I played 4 games in a row this afternoon and must have had like 8 broken bats. I wonder if this was cut down some for 16?

I'm not saying that real life has many sawed-off bats, but that many broken bats in real life in general is totally possible. I've seen Benito Santiago break two bats in the same AB. Wood bats break all of the time.

So, strangely enough, I'd like to see more bats break, but of the other variety... not just all bats that split and shatter.

[kehlis]

Quote: Originally Posted by Blzer

I'm not saying that real life has many sawed-off bats, but that many broken bats in real life in general is totally possible. I've seen Benito Santiago break two bats in the same AB. Wood bats break all of the time. So, strangely enough, I'd like to see more bats break, but of the other variety... not just all bats that split and shatter.

8? Hardly:

Quote:

That's been MLB's goal since 2008, when bat breakages reached an all-time high, with approximately one per game. Over the past four seasons, MLB has made a concerted effort to make bats safer through specific programs and regulations. In the process, there has been a steady decline in broken bats. Constant for the past year, breakages currently occur at a rate of around a half-bat per game. Last season, the rate was .50 multipiece failures per game. The most up-to-date breakage information for this season shows a rate of .53 bats per game.

http://m.mlb.com/news/article/36046676/


Full disclosure, the article is mainly talking about bat's that break into two pieces and become a danger rather than a simple split that the batter just walks back to get a replacement and that number is probably hard to track but 8 is a bit high...

[dran1984]

Quote: Originally Posted by Blzer

I'm not saying that real life has many sawed-off bats, but that many broken bats in real life in general is totally possible. I've seen Benito Santiago break two bats in the same AB. Wood bats break all of the time. So, strangely enough, I'd like to see more bats break, but of the other variety... not just all bats that split and shatter.

If I remember correctly, they was a thing where the maple bats where breaking more often.

[kehlis]

Quote: Originally Posted by dran1984

If I remember correctly, they was a thing where the maple bats where breaking more often.

Break rate was about the same but because of the grain of maple bats their breaks are more extreme (dangerous).

[dran1984]

Quote: Originally Posted by kehlis

Break rate was about the same but because of the grain of maple bats their breaks are more extreme (dangerous).

Ah okay. I knew there was something but I couldn't remember the specifics.