Power Pros Forum

This is what I got so far:

96 MPH Top Speed
Control 155-185 At this point don't expect anything higher than 160 haha
Stamina 148-155 Lowest Stamina level (148) is for his career average, 6.3 innings per start, highest level (155) is from 2014

Slider 1-2
Curveball 2-3
Changeup 3
Sinker 3-4
Not the most knowledgeable about X-movement and z-movement, like what number is considered a lot of movement

Poise 4 - Yes, he won a Cy Young award for crying out loud (should've gone to King Felix though )
Recovery 4 - You know the drill
Dr. K - Yes, career K/9 is 9.3, 2014 was 10.3, and I'll most likely acquire it anyways

Uncertain of these 3 abilities:
Fastball Life 4 - ???? probably no, Rarely used his fastball, in 2014, but batters had a .103 BA against it. Career average is at a whopping .327, yikes
Spin 4 - I think this might work, other than his sinker batters had a .240 BA or lower against every other pitch, in 2014
Release 4 - Maybe, batters had 8 stolen bases on 17 attempts ~53% CS in 2014

W/RISP 4 - Most likely no, could go both ways though, in 2014 78.6% strand rate but in his career it's 73.8%
VS Lefty 4 - No, lefties hit about .020 higher, in his career, than righties do. I'll try my best to avoid it. Don't yell at me if I get it haha
Groundball Pitcher - No

Feedback is much appreciated

Maybe lucky as a possibility?

I think fan graphs may have had a piece on x and y movement. You'll notice that lefties will sometimes have -ve readings on x movement. I take any x movement for a righty delivering from a 3/4 angle to be average at around 5 or 6 others will be different. Look up an article about the straightest fastballs on fan graphs you'll know it's the right one because Kershaw tops the lefty list. It explains most of the movements etc.

my $0.02:

top spd - min 96, might go with 97 since he hit 96.9 last season and has hit 97 in the past
ctrl ~175 (I know, might be unattainable, hehe)
stam ~142 is a min, 157 is a high...he really broke out this season with dominance and the CGs.

pitches:
2SFB 1 (its a sinker, but the MLBPP SNK is not right - 2SFB is the right one to use for speed/break accuracy)
H-SLD 3 (comes in at 88.8mph avg...maybe just normal SLD, whatever comes closest to 88.8mph)
CB 2
CHG 2

specials:
Id go with Release 4, sure
Recovery 4 ok
Dr K I get too
Poise 4 sure
Spin 4 could be useable sure

I'd say no on Fastball Life 4 - hitters hit .368 on it over his career. they hit .200 last season but that's cuz he barely threw it (like 3% of his pitches).

I already made a version of Kluber, I can post that version today if you'd like and you can consider whether you need to make another version.

dooo it man.

you might want to throw up a list of the players you've made (that aren't already up here), so that guys can mention any that they want to see. Might save time and make the universe happy!

alrighty then, I'll put that list up later, between lunch and basketball practice

I'd also like to see AgentP's version but I'll write this here just in case:

To finalize:
97 MPH Top Speed
Control 155-175
Stamina 142-157

2SFB 1
H-SLD 3
CB 2
CHG 2

Poise 4
Spin 4
Release 4
Recovery 4
Dr. K

I will try my best to avoid VS Lefty 4, but the Mon Mon Monkeys are going to be a problem because their entire line up consists of lefty hitters

Had to intentionally tank in the last game against Gil to prevent from getting any other blue abilities. VS Lefty 4 in next to unavoidable when I try to make these elite players because I have to preform as good as possible, in the games, to get their abilities up.

Very nice job! Well done!

This is almost exactly what I wanted to get when I made Kluber, only you actually got to those abilities, instead of being 6 MPH, 10 control points, and 30 stamina points short! (Although mine has a level 5 original pitch so I guess that sort of makes up for it???)