Hey everyone! I'm in season 2 of My Life mode with a starting pitcher I created in Success Mode. I did pretty well my first year, but my second year isn't going so smoothly. I had a lot of decent/good outings, but I've had several times when the manager told me I'm being scouted more. I'm at the point where anything I throw in the strike zone is being hit, either for a contact out or a base hit. I'm still getting through many games and winning, but giving up 8-12 hits per outing, and my strikeout average per game has gone from 9-10 when I started to around 3-4. And when I play the stronger teams like the Yankees or Red Sox, they put up some monster innings on me (and I reset the game, ha ha).
I have played this game for a long, long time, and played My Life once before, but got so frustrated with it, that I stayed away from this mode, sticking only with Success and Season Mode. I only recently decided to give this mode another shot, but I'm getting worried that if this continues, I'll be throwing my controller at the TV. And I don't want that... :p But yeah, if they keep scouting me, I am afraid every game is going to be like a game against the Yankees or Red Sox, and I just won't get anywhere.
So, my question - Anyone have any tips (as pitchers) as to how they continue to do well in their My Life career when the difficulty starts going up? I saw some posts on this for hitters, but didn't see any for pitchers, which makes me think that other players out there get by despite this scouting. I mean, does the AI learn your tendencies, which means you have to start throwing pitches in random parts of the zone, like high in the zone? Do you have to throw more balls out of the zone to throw off batters? It's just that I'm throwing good sequences with decent location, but when the batters are hitting lvl 5 Original Pitch Sliders and lvl 5 Drop Curves for hits repeatedly, it gets one frustrated. These are supposed to be out pitches! And I mix up my selection well - I pitch in real life, so I use those same strategies (pitching to both sides of the zone, changing speeds, etc.) in the game. I might soon get better results in real life than this game.
And in case anyone was wondering if it is just my abilities, 99 mph fastball (with Fastball Life), Stamina A (188), Control (152), good array of breaking balls with Spin (2FB - 2, Orig (Slider with more break) - 5, DCB - 5, CChg - 4, V-Sld - 2), and lots of blue abilities. So, I don't think it's my character, I just could use some tips to know how to counter the teams scouting me!