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MLB '10: The Show Blog: Catcher Calling the Game

05:06 PM - February 16, 2010 by TN - BRAVES FAN

Playstation.Blog has posted another MLB '10: The Show blog. This one detailing the catcher calling the game.

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	"Hello again everyone. This is Eddy Cramm, Senior Designer for MLB 10: The Show, and I am here today to talk about the new Catcher Calling the Game feature. Catchy name, huh? Road to the Show, since its inception has been a very well received mode because it gives the gamer a very deep, realistic, and fun alternative to the traditional career mode. The mode allows you to create the guy you want to create, in the position you want him to play. Depending on the position that you choose, you will be asked to do different things in the field that are specific to your position. Last year, as we looked back on our game, there was one position we wanted to improve upon. That was the catcher."

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# 41 countryboy @ 02/16/10 09:00 PM

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Originally Posted by pjv31


	With Carmen San Diego

# 42 countryboy @ 02/16/10 09:02 PM

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Originally Posted by Knight165


	Hey....that's not fair. I know where it is....but we just can't see it yet. C'mon Russ...get that puppy live already! M.K. Knight165

# 43 bp4baseball @ 02/16/10 09:05 PM

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Originally Posted by Knight165


	Hey....that's not fair. I know where it is....but we just can't see it yet. C'mon Russ...get that puppy live already! M.K. Knight165

ha ha, how many pm's have you recieved asking where it is

# 44 countryboy @ 02/16/10 09:06 PM

^^lol...

I'm wondering how many times "Sounds of the Show blog" has been typed into google.

# 45 Knight165 @ 02/16/10 09:09 PM

I love the idea of calling every pitch in RTTS.
I think I'll actually revive a RTTS career for '10 because of this.
I always make myself a catcher(I was one).....and it was the one big thing missing.
I wish they had calling each pitch for Manage only Mode too....so it's kind of like I got my wish.
Hopefully....they further it along next year.

M.K.
Knight165

# 46 Russell_SCEA @ 02/16/10 09:29 PM

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Originally Posted by Knight165


	Hey....that's not fair. I know where it is....but we just can't see it yet. C'mon Russ...get that puppy live already! M.K. Knight165

Waiting on legal right now its looking like Wednesday

# 47 Knight165 @ 02/16/10 09:31 PM

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Originally Posted by Russell_SCEA


	Waiting on legal right now its looking like Wednesday

Beautiful.
I can't wait.
I know you worked hard on this.

M.K.
Knight165

# 48 Russell_SCEA @ 02/16/10 09:48 PM

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Originally Posted by Knight165


	Beautiful. I can't wait. I know you worked hard on this. M.K. Knight165

Its a team effort, I'm just piece of an 80 man puzzle

# 49 TN - BRAVES FAN @ 02/16/10 09:54 PM

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Originally Posted by Russell_SCEA


	Its a team effort, I'm just piece of an 80 man puzzle

Keep it up Russell....did the lawyers clear the blog yet, or will it be on Wed.?

# 50 countryboy @ 02/16/10 09:59 PM

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Originally Posted by Russell_SCEA


	Its a team effort, I'm just piece of an 80 man puzzle

yeah...but we all know you're the most important piece.

# 51 Rob_NYY @ 02/16/10 10:21 PM

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Originally Posted by Russell_SCEA


	Waiting on legal right now its looking like Wednesday

Wednesday as in tomorrow, or Wednesday as in next Wednesday?

# 52 TN - BRAVES FAN @ 02/16/10 10:27 PM

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Originally Posted by Rob_NYY


	Wednesday as in tomorrow, or Wednesday as in next Wednesday?

# 53 bp4baseball @ 02/16/10 10:53 PM

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Originally Posted by Jdurg


	Congrats SCEA guys. You have gone gold and get a MUCH deserved break. My free time will disappear come March 2nd.

100% Agree

# 54 beau21 @ 02/16/10 10:54 PM

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Originally Posted by Jdurg


	Congrats SCEA guys. You have gone gold* and get a MUCH deserved break. My free time will disappear come March 2nd.*

They have?

# 55 Qb @ 02/17/10 10:33 AM

Stupid work firewall!

This is one I've been waiting for, as I'm the former catchers club (FCC?) as well. I gave RTTS a shot when I got the game in November, but only playing D on plays coming to me didn't feel right. Catcher wasn't much fun either, but the early info has me interested in giving it a shot this year. Wish I could read the blog...

# 56 stealyerface @ 02/17/10 11:06 AM

I think the dynamic of the pitcher calling off the suggestion is one that could be worked into a very interesting scenario. Seeing as though there is a FCC, I fall into the catagory of the FPC.

Sometimes, I knew that we needed to throw a curveball, but when I had the ball in my glove, my fingers grabbed a Splitter grip on the seams that felt so perfect, I didn't want to let go.

I always tried to tell my catcher that his pitch selection was a "suggestion", and that I would take it into consideration before I threw what I wanted to throw.

Sometimes there was yelling....

So, I think that there could be some real games within the game with a dynamic that utilized the pitcher's strengths and what he was throwing effectively. I love how you can see how your pitcher is progressing through the game with the little bars that represent each particular pitch, and how effectively it is being thrown as the game wears on.

As a RTTS Catcher, your decision for the pitch would be based on how well your pitcher is throwing the ball, and if his Slider effectiveness bar is all lit up, then you would expect to maybe see him go to that pitch when he needed to.

The other interesting way to approach it would really capture being "In Synch" with your battery mate. If you call for a 2-seamer and you get the shake off, you would then call for another pitch. Based on your next pitch selection, if you guessed what he wanted to throw correctly, there would be some sort of meter that you would either gain or lose effectiveness points based on the pitches you called for.

Watch a pitcher and catcher work a game where the pitcher is just rolling, and you'll see them be an extension of one another, and typically, even for pitchers with a 4+ pitch-arsenal, after the first shake off, the catcher usually gets that second call right.

Working this dynamic into experience points, or Pitcher/Catcher Confidence Points would add a real twist to the game, and done correctly, could make the difference of a Rookie Catcher that the pitchers are not quite sure of yet, or a rock-solid back stop that the pitchers can't wait to throw to.

On a side note, I played at college with a catcher who claimed that there was no such thing as a passed ball. Only wild pitches.

Catchers are a different sort.

syf

# 57 Reaman @ 02/17/10 02:13 PM

Thanks a lot TN - BRAVES FAN!

# 58 cardsfan2222 @ 02/17/10 02:20 PM

Will the catcher be able to go out to the mound to calm down the pitcher, or is that still up to the manager?

# 59 ODogg @ 02/17/10 02:32 PM

So can you play co-op online with one player pitching and the other one catching using this new mode?

# 60 tnchance94 @ 02/17/10 03:46 PM

i h8 the fact that ur either a starter or a closer kinda gettin off topic there. sorry. being a starter takes too long and closers dont get enof time. put in middle reliever nd ill b happy

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