Pitch Types
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There are 25 known pitch types in MLB Power Pros, each assigned a direction on the 8-direction control stick.
A pitcher can have up to two pitches per direction. Generally, the pitches will break in the general direction of the control stick (fastballs stay up, off-speed pitches are down, curveballs and sliders break left, screwballs and shuutos break right).
The following list is for RIGHT-HANDED pitchers in Behind PITCHER View. For a south-paw (or behind-batter view), just swap left(down) and right(down).
I've included some of the in-game abbreviations.
Up
- 4 seam Fastball (4SFB) A straight pitch that has no movement, unless your pitcher has the Gyroball ability. The fastest known pitch.
- 2 seam Fastball (2SFB) A pitch similar to a fastball but drops down.
Left
- Slider (SLD) A pitch similar to a curveball that has horizontal movement.
- Hard Slider (H-SLD) Similar to a Slider, still has horizontal movement.
- Cutter or Cut Fastball (CUT) A pitch with horizontal movement. Used to jam batters.
Down-Left
- Curveball (CB) A breaking ball that moves diagonally.
- Slow Curve (SCB) A slow breaking ball that moves diagonally. Less break but more slowdown.
- Drop Curve (DCB) A breaking ball that moves diagonally, but seems to drop down.
- Slurve (SLV) A breaking ball that moves diagonally.
- Knuckle Curve (KNCB) The fastest diagonal pitch.
Right
- Shuuto -a sort of reverse slider (SHU)
- Hard Shuuto (H-SHU) Similar to a Shuuto.
- Sinking Fastball (SIFB) Similar to a sinker but is faster with horizontal movement.
Down-Right
- Sinker (SNK) Similar to a curve, pretty much the opposite of it.
- Hard Sinker (H-SNK) Similar to Sinker.
- Screwball (SC) Similar to a curve, pretty much the opposite of it.
Down
- Changeup (CHG) A slow pitch developed to throw off the batters timing.
- Circle Changeup (CCHG) Seems like a 2 Seam fastball when thrown, but breaks suddenly.
- Forkball (FORK) A type of changeup.
- Palmball (PALM) A type of changeup where the ball is held more in the palm.
- Vertical Slider (V-SLD) The ball seems to spin similar to a slider but drops horizontally.
- Knuckleball (KN) A random erratic ball that is rather slow.
- Splitter (SPLT) A faster changeup. Used to create ground ball plays
- Foshball (FOSH) A type of changeup.
The custom pitch from success mode has been seen as an Original (ORIG) pitch in the direction of the changed/upgraded pitch.