Franchise Power Hitting Problem

[clonze_07]

Lately (my franchise is in may), I havent been able to hit homeruns. I was leading the league by 1 after 2 weeks and now my team hasn't hit a homerun in about a month on the game. What happened? Mark Reynolds when I guess a pitch is right on a few of them and the most it does is hit a line drive. Also I'm patient when I hit and I zone my pitches, so I do see about 100 pitches (unless the starter is getting rocked) per game from the starter.

I've sat a few of my players to get their energy up but that doesn't seem to correct it, also I've tried inducing a fly ball and it really in my opinion doesn't change a whole lot.

Any ideas?

[ckarlic]

Quote: Originally Posted by clonze_07

Lately (my franchise is in may), I havent been able to hit homeruns. I was leading the league by 1 after 2 weeks and now my team hasn't hit a homerun in about a month on the game. What happened? Mark Reynolds when I guess a pitch is right on a few of them and the most it does is hit a line drive. Also I'm patient when I hit and I zone my pitches, so I do see about 100 pitches (unless the starter is getting rocked) per game from the starter. I've sat a few of my players to get their energy up but that doesn't seem to correct it, also I've tried inducing a fly ball and it really in my opinion doesn't change a whole lot. Any ideas?

Sounds like you may be in a slump and pressing too hard. Ive hit those "valleys" before and what I do is take some time off from the game and pick it up a couple of days later. For me it seems to be mostly psychological than anything. I also never use the power swing at all. Im playing on AS Default as well.

[Maynard]

its baseball. i went thru a 2 week stretch to start june and my team batting was terrible. I couldnt get anything going on offense. I batted like .215 in 3 straight series

now i have turned it around, thanks to the pirates and hit over 300 in the past 2 series sweeping both the pirates and phillies.

[Jason_19]

Quote: Originally Posted by clonze_07

when I guess a pitch is right on a few of them and the most it does is hit a line drive.

Try turning guess pitch off. After you get used to it, you should be able to hit better.

[Chrisksaint]

All about timing, today I was in a groove hit 3 HR through the 3rd inning @ Houston, turn the hitting difficuly from veteran to all-star and proceed to hit 5 more homers in the game

[Juiceman]

It's probably in my head, but when my power guys are not hitting well I hit contact with them and it seems to get things back in order after a while and then I'll re-introduce the power swing again.

But huge slumps happen. Just ask Carlos Lee, Pablo Sandoval, Adam Jones, Matt Kemp, etc. They've all had huge slumps at some point this year. Carlos Lee probably being the best example. Just brutal.

[JayBruce32]

can you hit for power with the contact swing?

[Darkleaf]

Quote: Originally Posted by JayBruce32

can you hit for power with the contact swing?

Absolutely! A large majority of people just use (X) contact swings and see an accurate amount of HR's.(Myself included)