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• Pick the Right Archetype
• Put on Power Equipment
• Work on Your Batting Stance
• Swing Early and Often
• When to Use Power Swing
• Best Pitching Archetype in MLB The Show 22
• Best Pitches and Pitching Motion
• Best Ballplayer Perks for your Loadout
• What is the best archetype in MLB The Show 22 pitcher?
• What are the archetypes in MLB The Show 22?
• What are the best perks in MLB The Show 22?

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Everybody wants to hit a home run. It’s the most exciting play in all of baseball, and slamming a ball into next Tuesday always feels great in MLB The Show 21. However, because they’re so tough to hit with consistency, you might be looking for some tips to help out your long ball game. While we can’t guarantee you’ll hit a homer every at bat, we do have some tips that should help improve your power hitting.

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• Pick the Right Archetype
• Put on Power Equipment
• Work on Your Batting Stance
• Swing Early and Often
• When to Use Power Swing

Pick the Right Archetype

Our first suggestion would be to change your archetype to Slugger. This archetype comes with the biggest power boost against pitchers. Here's how to change your archetype:

1. Go to your profile.
2. Select your loadout.
3. Press X (A on Xbox) on the badge on the left hand side of the screen.
4. Pick the Slugger archetype.

On top of that, we’d recommend choosing a Power perk or two to boost those power numbers even higher. As you play more with the archetype, you’ll unlock better perks and archetypes, so pay attention to anything new that you can add to give you even more power.

Put on Power Equipment

While you’re on the loadout page, make sure to also choose equipment that gives you power. You can earn new gear by playing in Road to the Show or Diamond Dynasty. This gear can give you the boost you need to get those extra few feet on your long balls.

Work on Your Batting Stance

Another important tip is to check your batting stance. In our Road to the Show Guide and Tips, we went into a ton of detail about batting stances, but our biggest suggestion related to power-hitting is to make sure have a one-handed follow-through on your swing.

It might seem like a small thing, but it actually does help quite a bit. Your player can really turn on the ball and sling it to the outfield with a one-handed follow-through.

Swing Early and Often

You aren’t an on-base maverick like Ichiro. You’re aiming to be a power hitter. So stay aggressive at the plate. Don’t swing at junk pitches, but feel free to let it rip at anything in the zone. Once you’ve built up your power stat, you’ll be surprised at some of the pitches you can crank deep. After all, you can’t hit a homer if you’re not hitting the ball.

When to Use Power Swing

In general, we don’t use power unless we’re pretty sure we know where a pitch is going. The reason for this is that you want a low pitch if you’re going with a power swing. Pitches up in the strike zone will often result in pop-ups if you use the power swing, so it’s best to stick to a standard swing. If you can get a hold of a pitch low in the zone, you’ll have a much better chance at cranking a dinger.

Again, our tips won’t guarantee a home run, but they should put you in a great position to get one. Keep plugging away and you’ll be ripping them before you know it.

MLB The Show 22 allows more customization than ever this year with players no longer restricted to a single Ballplayer, and that means you can work towards crafting the perfect pitcher.

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Best Pitching Archetype in MLB The Show 22

Best Pitches and Pitching Motion

Best Ballplayer Perks for your Loadout

We've got the info you need to build with the best pitching archetype, perks, pitches, and motion for you in MLB The Show 22.

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Best Pitching Archetype in MLB The Show 22

Right from the start, you'll be faced with the challenge of choosing your pitching archetype and the reality that it's something you can't change.

While most Ballplayer details can be changed after creation, archetype is the primary thing you won't be able to alter.

MLB The Show 22 offers four pitching archetype options: Velocity, Control, Break, and Knucksie.

That fourth one can be tempting, but players who have any desire to use their Ballplayer in Diamond Dynasty need to avoid it as Knucksie pitchers can't be used online.

Of the three remaining options, all have strengths and can work well if they fit the style you really wanna pursue.

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Velocity has some definite advantages, but we suggest Control, especially for a Ballplayer that could become a mainstay of your Diamond Dynasty squad.

Best Pitches and Pitching Motion

While some of this can come down to your own preferences, there are some reliable selections that tend to do well online.

Sinker and Cutter are highly recommended, as both are very strong pitches in MLB The Show 22 and can excel in Diamond Dynasty.

Follow that with a curve or changeup of some kind, but for us the preference tends to be the Slurve and Circle Change.

Your fifth pitch is where some would put a Sliders just to have access, but it's also a good option to slip a 4-Seam Fastball in at the bottom.

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The fifth pitch in your arsenal won't be the strongest and will get thrown the least, but it can be beneficial to have a very uncommonly throw fastball in a pinch.

As for pitching motion, you can always go with a quick option like Josh Hader if you prefer, but for maximum effect online we suggest Generic Windup 7.

Choosing a generic option means its a motion players are less likely to be familiar with, and Generic Windup 7 is one of the filthiest submarine style motions available.

Best Ballplayer Perks for your Loadout

As you work through the archetype programs and unlock more powerful pitching archetypes, you'll also snag more and more top quality perks.

While most of the perks you need are obtainable in the packs these programs provide, you're also able to head to the Community Market in Diamond Dynasty to buy them outright with Stubs.

We don't have suggestions for Knucksie as it won't be usable online, but in general you'll want to lean on Break perks and can use any of the Break suggestions below.

While sometimes you can use perks for a more rounded player, these suggested perks for each pitching archetype will lean on your strengths:

• Control: Control 1, Control 2, Control 3, and Conductor
  • The first three will give you the necessary stat boosts while Conductor gives you significantly increased pitch accuracy.
• Velocity: Velocity 1, Velocity 2, Velocity 3, and Pulse Pounder
  • Again the primary three give you the needed stats, and Pulse Pounder gives significantly increased pitch velocity.
• Break: Break 1, Break 2, Break 3, and Battle Tested
  • Finally you'll have the same stat boosts, but Battle Tested is a bit weaker as the significantly increased pitch break only activates in the 7th Inning or later.

Another good thing to keep in mind as you're choosing these and outfitting equipment is that the HR/9 attribute is not active in online games.

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It is only affected by simulated play, and as a result has no impact on your play in Diamond Dynasty.

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