Anyone else think pitchers are too good on defense?

[war_eagle23]

What I mean by this is, don't you guys think that pitchers stop line drives up the middle entirely too much? It annoys the heck out of me.

[jeffy777]

Definitely. Needs fixed for sure.

[JBH3]

I think it's not as big a problem as it was made out to be. After reading impression prior to purchasing I thought I would see a vacuum on the mound, and that wasn't the case.

I've see plenty of grounders/seeing eye singles make their way up the middle. The come backer line drives seem to get caught a little too much, and it would be nice to see some of those ricochet off the actual pitcher and cause an injury.

[mkharsh33]

in my last game (tampa bay (me) vs. toronto) i counted a total of ELEVEN outs made by both pitchers combined...

yeah, definitely a problem...not even close to real-life.

[jeffy777]

Quote: Originally Posted by JBH3

I think it's not as big a problem as it was made out to be. After reading impression prior to purchasing I thought I would see a vacuum on the mound, and that wasn't the case. I've see plenty of grounders/seeing eye singles make their way up the middle. The come backer line drives seem to get caught a little too much, and it would be nice to see some of those ricochet off the actual pitcher and cause an injury.

hmmmm, not what I'm seeing. I've played through 2 full seasons of My Player already at 2nd Base (I play almost every single game) and just about every ball hit up the middle is gobbled up by the pitcher. I'd say the pitcher snags about 90% of the balls hit up the middle, which is way too much.

[foofighter2455]

Quote: Originally Posted by jeffy777

hmmmm, not what I'm seeing. I've played through 2 full seasons of My Player already at 2nd (I play almost every single game) and just about every ball hit up the middle is gobbled up by the pitcher. I'd say the pitcher snags about 90% of the balls hit up the middle, which is way too much.

Co-sign...

[m-dogg]

yes this is an outrageous problem. As a SS for the red sox I see this up close, Beltre on my right playing super shallow gobbling up EVERYTHING hit his way, and then the pitcher on my left making him look like a minor leager the way he is able to grab hot shot after hot shot. every pitcher is better than any defensive wiz in the history of baseball. I've hit plenty of balls off the pitcher, they just catch them or grab them and quickly through me out...

[JBH3]

Quote: Originally Posted by jeffy777

hmmmm, not what I'm seeing. I've played through 2 full seasons of My Player already at 2nd Base (I play almost every single game) and just about every ball hit up the middle is gobbled up by the pitcher. I'd say the pitcher snags about 90% of the balls hit up the middle, which is way too much.

You're talking about my player, and my experience is strictly limited to franchise gameplay. I play my player, but the only player I have is a starting pitcher so my ability to see what the CPU pitcher does when the ball is hit up the middle is limited to when my SP-MyPlayer can get on base...which isn't much.

Again - for franchise play, I stick to what I stated previously. Maybe these things are different among game modes?