MLB The Show 25: What Is the Sweeper and What Makes It Different?

[Steve_OS]

If you've been playing MLB The Show 25, you'll notice that there's a new pitch in...

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[Watson]

Old enough to remember when this pitch was called a slurve

[Ghost Of The Year]

Quote: Originally Posted by Watson

Old enough to remember when this pitch was called a slurve

I think they misnamed the sweeper. They should have named it swurve.
Waiting for The Show to add the gyro now. And what they really need to do is add a sixth pitch as an option instead of limit it to five. Also, let you choose to throw six of the same pitch if you want to, or two of the same pitch or any combination you want.

[Instant C1a55ic]

I want my running fastball back....

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[Ghost Of The Year]

Quote: Originally Posted by Instant C1a55ic

I want my running fastball back.... Sent from my SM-F946U using Operation Sports mobile app

A few years ago they got rid of one of the changeups (I'm thinking maybe Palmball) and then brought it back a year or two later, so there is hope and precedence it could come back.

[Therebelyell626]

Quote: Originally Posted by Ghost Of The Year

I think they misnamed the sweeper. They should have named it swurve. Waiting for The Show to add the gyro now. And what they really need to do is add a sixth pitch as an option instead of limit it to five. Also, let you choose to throw six of the same pitch if you want to, or two of the same pitch or any combination you want.

Isn’t the “gyro” that pitch that Daisuke Matsusaka used to throw?

[Madden08PCgmr]

You're going to try to tell me Mr Snappy was a sweeper?

Not buying and won't ever buy.

This is all just a byproduct of this generation being obsessed with velocity.

Some guys can really spin it now, similar to Randy. Most can't.

[CBoller1331]

Quote: Originally Posted by Therebelyell626

Isn’t the “gyro” that pitch that Daisuke Matsusaka used to throw?

A gyro is essentially just an extremely "ineffecient" slider....(and ineffecient isn't a negative term in this sense)

In other words it spins like a spiral (which is "gyroscopic" spin - hence the name. A lot of times you'll hear it called a "bullet" spin). A ball thrown with perfect gyroscope spin has no back spin or front spin or side spin to influence the direction it "breaks" so all of it's movement is due to gravity.