HOW TO READ PITCHER ATTRIBUTES:

PLAYER ABILITIES: (TAB #1)

Tabs at top: Player Abilities - Pitching Abilities - Hitting Abilities - Other Information 1 - Other Information 2

This is Hawks pitcher Hiroki Yamada. Note this page is identical to Tab #2 (Pitching Abilities) which we'll exclude in this section.

TOP LEFT AREA:

- Player Name (in red) / Team Logo / Jersey Number (34).

- Pitching Motion: Three Quarter motion #14 / Left Throws & Left Bats (Switch hitters will have a short horizontal line at the top, followed by a big box underneath with some more strokes inside the box.)

- ERA (2.85) / Pitchers Role Compatibility (Starter). There can be up to 3 text characters here (to the right of the light blue text box). Starter, Reliever, and Closer. They will also appear as a big font or small font. Big font means "best role", small font means "ok" and if it doesn't show a role that means he is not compatible at all. 

- Pitch Speed: 145 km/h or 90 mph (1 km/h = .62 mph)
- Control (D / 55)
- Pitchers Base Stamina (C / 69) : This is your basic in-game pitching stamina like every other baseball game.

GRAPHIC AT TOP RIGHT: This shows the direction & break of each pitch (from the batters perspective). The two lines of text at the top says that he has a "Fastball" & "2-Seam Fastball". He also has a slider with good movement and a changeup with a little bit of movement. In order to translate the pitch type text please see the 'Pitch Types' Page.

BOTTOM AREA:

This displays the special skills the player possesses. The top 2 rows are fixed skills in which every player will be rated. If the skill is shaded it means he has a normal, medium rating of 3. If the skill is in bold then he's either positive (blue 4 or 5) or negative (red 1 or 2).

In rows 3-6 you can see his positive (blue) and negative (red) Special Skills. Note: there is a couple that are both positive & negative, these will have a split blue & red color. For further details please view the 'Special Skills' pages.

HITTING ABILITIES (TAB #3):

* Not much useful info to see here since Yamada is a pitcher. See the "Batter Attributes" page for further details.

- Player Name (in red) / Team Logo / Jersey Number (34).

- Batting Form: Standard Form #9) / Left Throws & Left Bats

- Batting Avg (.250) / HR's (0) / RBI's (1)

• Trajectory *: 1
• Contact: G / 22
• Power: G / 7
• Speed: E / 45 (will also affect how fast your player moves on defense)
• Arm Strength: C / 63
• Defense: F / 35 (players with high defense grades will catch the ball and throw the ball in quick, smooth motions)
• Error Prone: F / 33 (may also denote how prone the player is to making a big defensive play. For example an 'A' rated defender will make big plays with few errors, while a porrly rated player will make alot of errors and few big plays.)
• Position: Pitcher.

* Trajectory ranges from 1 to 4. The higher the number, the bigger the flyball you can hit. For example, a slugger with a high trajectory & power rating can hit high flyballs and would be a serious homerun threat.

OTHER INFORMATION 1 (TAB #4):

- Speed: E / 45
- Arm Strength: C / 63
- Position & Defense: Can play as Pitcher only with a defensive rating of F / 35. The breakdown in this box is as follows (from L to R):

- Pitcher (F 35)
- Catcher
- 1B
- 2B
- 3B
- SS
- OF

- Error Prone: F / 33 (may also denote how prone player is to making a big defensive play.) For example an 'A' rated defender will make big plays with few errors, while a poorly rated player will make alot of errors and few big plays.

BOTTOM AREA:

ROW 1 (Player Roles): These show how the CPU will use this player.

ROW 2-6 (Common Skills): Green skills are tendencies which the CPU will use with this player.

Please view the 'Special Skills' pages for more details and translations.

OTHER INFORMATION 2 (TAB #5):

BOTTOM AREA:

- Pronunciation of his name
- Age (23) and 3rd year as a pro
- Birthday (07/30/1988)
- Name shown on uniform (H. YAMADA)

- Bat color
- Glove color
- Left wrist tape color
- Right wrist tape color