Conventional wisdom says hit this guy in the 3-hole, but I want Pablo up to the dish as much as possible, preferably with Petey Wheels sitting on 2nd.
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Guy is a triple crown threat at the dish plus he could just as easily lead the league in steals if he wasn’t so preoccupied hitting dingers.
In Backyard Football, he was Johnny Manziel before Johnny Manziel, but his prowess on the diamond somehow exceeds his greatness on the gridiron. What else is there to say about this guy? Greatest video game athlete of all time and it’s not even close. Still, there’s no better choice at the top of the order. The only real downside here is Pete does have some swing and miss in his game, as being a free-swinger with an obvious learning disability doesn’t often lead to consistent contact. You could play two overweight clunkers at the corners and Pete’s raw speed would more than make up for the lost ground in the gaps. The kid can absolutely go get it out in center as well. He’s just as likely to go deep as he is to squib a single and steal his way to third two pitches later. A sprinter with an awkward-yet-powerful left-handed stroke, Pete Wheeler is the obvious choice to leadoff your Backyard batting order. I could likely rattle off at least 80% of the fictional characters from memory, but putting them in the perfect lineup, aside from a few obvious choices, was a little more difficult. While Backyard Football also took up a ton of my time in my youth, Backyard Baseball is what kept me in front of a bright heavy glass screen for multi-hour marathons of gaming. I highly recommend checking it out, as it brought back all the fond nostalgia I have for the Backyard sports series.Īlmost everyone I know (aside from Will deFries apparently) shares that fond nostalgia for the cartoon sports games about extremely likable multi-cultural little leaguers giving it their go at every major sport you can think of. Players move differently on different fields, slower in the sand and faster on the grass.Yesterday The Ringer ran a hell of a piece on the cult classic computer game Backyard Baseball and its incredible legacy. The game features fairly simple menus, baseball cards of all the players, rosters and schedules, a system of 'good and bad days' that alter players' stats (one may not like Tuesdays, or be much better when a particular person is on the other team, etc. And, as in Backyard Sports titles, there are power-ups: pitches like the Big Freeze, the Corkscrew or the Elevator.
There's even batting practice, from tee-ball to the hardest difficulties, and a Spectator mode for two teams to face off while you watch. Play a single game, or an entire season (earning pennants and trophies and maybe getting into the Hall of Fame), or even online against other BB2001 players. Choose a Backyard Sports team or create your own, or choose from the 30 licensed MLB teams (with uniforms and logos).
As a coach, you can choose from the 30 fictional Backyard Sports teams, the 31 real Major League Baseball players represented as children, or both.
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