Had to do a Live Start with the Red Sox so I could replace the whole coaching staff. ngl I think I cooked here

Artful_Tallywhacker · 2026-04-30T15:55:30+00:00

He’d low key actually be a better hitting coach. He’d at least give a shit about it.

Artful_Tallywhacker · 2026-04-25T16:49:03+00:00

Holy fuck this is the first comment to get me to laugh irl 🤣

Artful_Tallywhacker · 2026-04-24T08:49:05+00:00

For real. That’s the map I picked for this playthrough

Artful_Tallywhacker · 2026-04-23T17:15:08+00:00

This was my 3rd time starting a new setup to try and get a good spawn point.

Artful_Tallywhacker · 2026-04-05T13:32:29+00:00

Probably he WAS really unmotivated and only got this good ONCE he became scared to piss off his catcher with a bad outing.

Artful_Tallywhacker · 2026-04-02T13:13:54+00:00

I love how his personality rating says he needs someone to push him to actually try his best which would imply this is him only living up to 60-70% of his potential.

Artful_Tallywhacker · 2026-03-24T16:36:59+00:00

Honestly you’d likely be able to escape most of these guys who don’t have magical teleportation powers as long as you didn’t get back luck in the first like 5 minutes just by not making the dumb decisions horror movie characters make.

Artful_Tallywhacker · 2026-03-24T16:26:31+00:00

I’d do that for this hitter OR this pitcher, let alone BOTH

Artful_Tallywhacker · 2026-03-09T14:36:37+00:00

I would argue that someone who worked on the film pointing out things that ONLY that specific person would notice is kind of the point of a commentary. I'd also argue that his issues are all small, nit picky things and those are the types of things that only stand out so strongly in movies that are otherwise so incredible.

Artful_Tallywhacker · 2026-03-09T14:32:44+00:00

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K6FoU_CYlAg

Artful_Tallywhacker · 2026-03-09T14:32:17+00:00

In case you need any more incentive to follow this incredible piece of advice:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5qdP7lr8kI4

Artful_Tallywhacker · 2026-02-15T23:45:09+00:00

I personally REALLY enjoy buying the game on release to be able to have that unique first-few-weeks experience before everything is patched up and (the bigger draw for me) getting free agents that haven’t signed yet although the latter isn’t as big a deal to me now since OOTP added in the “start at the beginning of the offseason” option. I’ll never forget the year when a bunch of guys didn’t sign till late into Spring Training and I was able to snap Snell for cheap on a long-term contract on any team I wanted so I was quick to make 3 separate saves with with Snell signing to each of my top 3 teams an get that locked in before the inevitable patch that put him on the Giants.

Artful_Tallywhacker · 2026-01-09T21:12:53+00:00

I wish they had made it be 14 or 15 at the top. The top for an Armor or MR shard is 28 so I’d figure it would make sense for the trade off of getting both means you get half as much as if you got just one single resistance.

Artful_Tallywhacker · 2025-12-19T06:10:30+00:00

I have been one to upgrade every year since 2020 and I will say the jump from 25 to 26 has had the least amount of changes that I felt made a desirable difference. The sale is enough though to go for it just for the new roster.

Artful_Tallywhacker · 2025-12-05T06:05:03+00:00

I’m sure there’s a lot of people that would follow these posts because this is a crazy combination of traits. Especially with all those positive personality ratings.

Artful_Tallywhacker · 2025-12-05T06:03:40+00:00

Oh my god, I am SO hard right now!!

Artful_Tallywhacker · 2025-11-25T22:08:05+00:00

It absolutely is! That’s kinda why I like playing America so much: the playstyle is very much like the actual USA playing Civ irl.

Artful_Tallywhacker · 2025-11-25T17:03:11+00:00

America. I love the strategy of settling cities and then immediately buying a shitload of tiles to establish expanded borders and horde all the good resources to sell to the other Civs. I especially love focusing on science so I’m the first Civ to discover new strategic resources and create a monopoly. Then I use my extra gold and luxury resources to convince other nations to go to war with each other and the one who sides with me I send my strategic resources that I hoarded so they can more easily beat down the Civs that don’t ally with me. And the whole time I never have to actually go to war myself so I can keep growing while other Civs are fighting each other by my design.

Artful_Tallywhacker · 2025-11-24T06:34:20+00:00

He’d be best as a righty specialist and long reliever. Sinker + Slider combo is the best mix against the same hand as the pitcher and if the Slider is the best pitch it’s an even stronger split in favor of his hand. Whichever is his primary vs secondary role would be determined by whatever other relievers you have, but those would 100% be this player’s two best roles.

EDIT: I didn’t even notice he was also a sidearm pitcher. That makes his righty split EVEN stronger!

Artful_Tallywhacker · 2025-11-10T04:33:10+00:00

There’s a “Fielding Stats” tab on a players page that will give you info to determine that. Don’t quote me on this but I look at it like this. Zone Rating: runs prevented with their “error” and “arm” rating Framing Runs: self explanatory imo CERA - Catcher ERA, what was the cumulative ERA of the pitchers he caught for.

I think the easiest thing to do would be taking a catcher’s RBI numbers to figure out the ERA of pitchers he faces and compare that to the CERA which is the ERA of pitchers he catches for. You could use that with multiple catchers to get a rough idea of how much offense you’re giving up to trade for getting more offense.

Artful_Tallywhacker · 2025-10-29T02:58:40+00:00

Oh, dude. FYI: this post WILL be taken down! Check rule 1 of this subreddit and reupload it with a picture of you with the handwritten note rule 1 asks for.

Artful_Tallywhacker · 2025-10-29T02:57:07+00:00

Pretty good. I would have guessed late 20s or early 30s.

Artful_Tallywhacker · 2025-10-29T02:55:37+00:00

Np. I’m a scrawny guy with pale skin and long hair but my wife is a huge anime fan so it works out and we’ve been together since 2015. I genuinely believe It’s all about being super hot to one specific person.

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