Easy Base Stealing
If your runner is on first base and has decent speed, take two or three lead
off steps. As soon as the pitcher's arm moves to throw, press Up + Square. If
the pitcher throws to first base, once the ball gets to the first baseman press
Circle to go back. If he does not throw, you should be safe at second base.
Easy Fly Ball Catches
When you are in the outfield and are not sure where the ball is going to
land because of the wind, the outfielder will lock on the ball to make an easy
catch. This only works under the rookie difficulty setting.
Stealing Home
If you have a fairly fast runner on third base, start to steal home. Go back
when the throw to third base goes home. You will be safe almost always.
Building a good team
Start a franchise or season. When you get to the season, go into the "Edit"
category and select your player. Choose to move the player to another team. You
then can have any desired star on your team. After your first season you will
lose some players due to the fact you will be over budget, but you can do this
trick again. To get better ratings for other players, do the same thing by
selecting a player and then editing the desired category up or down.
Get ejected
Hit a player while pitching three or four times and you will be ejected.
Incorrect Batting Stances Corrected
message: There are many batting stances that are either incorrect or just not as
close to other batting stances (according to their real life counterparts), so,
here's a list of players on the game that can be edited to another batting
stance to make them more like their real stance. This list will get larger when
more stances will be corrected.
THE LIST:
-Pedro Feliz to Sean Casey
-Marquis Grissom to Special 5 or Tony Womack
-Andres Galarraga to Jason Kendall
-Livan Hernandez to Jeff Kent
-Kirk Rueter to Medium
-Benito Santiago to Ben Grieve
-Yorvit Torrealba to Magglio Ordoñez
-Ellis Burks to Special 4 or Special 5
-Chipper Jones to Barry Larkin
-Barry Larkin to Chipper Jones
-Ken Griffey Jr to Brady Anderson
-Shawn Green to Raul Mondesi
-Jim Edmonds to Andruw Jones
-Fred McGriff, Neifi Perez, and Rafael Palmiero to Bobby Abreu
-Sammy Sosa to Delino Deshields (otherwise keep the Sosa stance)
-Jason Giambi to Johnny Damon or High (Damon recommended)
-Lance Berkman to Special 3
-Jacque Jones to Cliff Floyd
-Pat Burrell to Barry Bonds
-Brian Jordan to Mike Piazza or Todd Zeile (he’s kind of a mix of them)
-Richie Sexson and Miguel Tejada to Nomar Garciaparra
-Eric Chavez, Terrence Long, and Erubiel Durazo to Sean Casey
-Ichiro to Special 5
-Geoff Jenkins to Special 6
-Armando Rios to Brad Fullmer
-Todd Hundley and Brian Giles to Carlos Delgado
-Alfonso Soriano to Jeff Bagwell
-Craig Counsell to Brad Fullmer (otherwise keep it on Magglio Ordoñez)
-Bobby Estalella to Special 4
-Phil Nevin to Andruw Jones
-Jose Cruz Jr. to Derek Jeter
-Eric Karros to Cliff Floyd or Todd Zeile
-Jeffrey Hammonds to Closed
-John Vander Wal to Jeromy Burnitz
-Kevin Young to Todd Zeile
-Albert Pujols to Moises Alou
-J.D. Drew to Edgardo Alfonzo
-Julio Franco to Matt Williams
-Mike Piazza to Jeff Kent (it’s closer to the REGULAR Mike Piazza stance )
-David Bell to High
-Placido Polanco to Medium
-Jim Thome to Shannon Stewart
-Aramis Ramirez to Manny Ramierz
-Tim Salmon to Tony Eusebio (kind of funky looking, but if his knees were bent
more and if his arms were a little more up, it would be exact)
-Garret Anderson to Special 5
-Randall Simon to Carl Everett
-Bill Mueller to Open
-Hideki Matsui to Special 7
-J.T. Snow to High or Lee Stevens
-Austin Kearns to Jay Bell or Steve Finley
-Kenny Lofton to Craig Biggio
