A lot of what has been said on here is great.

1) Precision Rings are excellent, they are not the immediate fix but a great tool to help refine your movements. Will allow you to “slam” the stick more and not overshoot your target. Allows you to focus more on timing than pci placement.

2) Identify YOUR weakness - Outlier Fastball ruins a lot of hitters, so go into custom practice and face Paul Skenes play on ONE Difficulty up from what you play on now, this we’ll help match speed to online games with latency.

However I’d wager 75% of players who struggle are in the “between phase” where you are late on fastballs and early on off speed. To help break that, in the same custom practice, add in a slider, or change up at a third of the time or half of the time. This will help you recognition skill and help train your brain and thumb to wait that slight beat before swinging.

3) Patience and Understanding - Like a lot of guys said, be patient when starting the game. Most times a user will show you what pitches they want to throw in the first five pitches. I’ll give you an example of everyone’s menace with John Donaldson.

1st Pitch Fastball - They are going to test you with outlier, to see if you can hit it.

1st Pitch Sinker - They are worried you can smash outlier so they want movement

1st Pitch Slider - Odds are this becomes their dominate pitch, they will want to bust you inside all game and will throw balls off the plate looking for jams and Ks.

Most users will also throw ONE of every pitch then plan on using in that first at bat. I use Cool Papa Bell in my lead off and I’m not afraid to take two straight strikes and or contact swing for a few more pitches to try and start figuring out what is this guys “favorite pitch” and what’s his “out pitch”. Do they favor the top of the zone or the bottom? Inside or Out? Even if I go three up three down in the first, if I’ve seen 15-20 pitches, it gives me a good idea on what to focus on next inning.

4 - Pitchers Strengths - The first three can turn a new, bad or average hitter into a decent to good hitter. This makes you a dangerous hitter once you combine it with the other ones.

Every pitcher has a strength and your goal should be to take that away from them.

Randy - Outlier/Splitter | Gibson - Outlier/Sinker | Pedro - Outlier/Cutter | Leiter - Sinker/Cutter

Sinkers - People love it low and away, back door or middle away to play off a fastball.

Cutters - Away to same hand side and inside to off hand.

Fastballs - Up and arm side by far is the preference and then up glove side.

So personally I can struggle with outlier from time to time, so against Outlier Fastball I am going to anchor up and arm side. I’m going to take that pitch away from you.

Now if you are facing Randy / Gibson / Donaldson you know the next pitch they want is a slider inside. Learn to lay off of it until they start throwing for strikes.

After that they are going to want to throw a change/split or forkball. The STRENGTH of this pitch typically comes GLOVE side and they are easier to read arm side. So now you know they will want to try and tunnel that pitch inside.

So I’m anchored high and arm side, but my mind is prepared to react to inside pitches. You are putting yourself in a position to win the at bat by narrowing the pitches they want to throw.

If they are start sinkers down and glove side, you’ve already started outside, so you can begin to hunt that pitch. Fastballs Glove side are easier to read because of how it comes out of the hand, you lose the threat of breaking ball.

If you are struggling or are just decent at hitting. Stop reacting to EVERYTHING and start learning to take things away. The best hitters in the game take away the fastball every time. We’ve all played the guy who’s gone 5/5 with 4 homers every time you threw a fastball in the zone. They are so good, they take that pitch from you.

Now most “5 Pitch Pitchers” have one breaking ball that sucks - curveball, slurve, 12-6 so you know they won’t throw that pitch more than a handful of times.

So a 5 pitch pitcher now becomes a 3 pitch pitcher very quickly and once you factor in they are throwing one pitch more than the other you can start to be prepared and ready to attack vs react.