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Originally Posted by rassy7

This is good to know. I pretty much went to that strategy except for power hitters when the alternative was an intentional walk. If they have a bad eye rating, I can sometimes get them to strikeout on pitch-around pitches.

I have pretty strong 2B, SS and CF, but the thing is, the AI used the exact same guys in the same places. I guess the AI just handled defense better somehow? I can't see if they used any shifts.

Strange thing is, I looked at the SP pitch stats from my previous 8 games and compared them to the 5 simmed games and they're very similar.

My SP strikes/total pitches from last 8 games: 60.25%
AI's SP strikes/total pitches from 5 simmed games: 61.6%
Total walks were also comparable
So as frustrating as it is to see all the full counts, it didn't seem to make a difference with the AI at the helm.

I'm still missing something. Nothing is jumping out at me in the comparison. If the AI just used "pitch," then we've done the same thing, except my attempts resulted in a long losing streak and the AI won five straight.

I use all three pitch options depending on the situation though most often the old #1 - Pitch. Pitch Around against low contact-high power hitters since they tend to chase. Pitch to Contact with a slow runner on 1st and a poor/fair contact hitter with poor/fair power at the plate or crappy hitting pitchers since PtC throws more strikes and generates more ground balls (at least in my experience).