This unpredictability results in a fairly realistic number of walks and also adds some real tension to your games. He's either getting ready to pitch or he's auditioning for the Moscow Ballet. It's lonely in the outfield. On the batting side of things you can guess the pitch that the pitcher is going to throw, and thereby increase or decrease your odds of a good, clean hit, or you can just go ahead and crank that puppy. Timing is everything when you have ash in your hand, or at least that s what my daddy used to say.
Bunting is also an option, but so is just standing there and taking a ball in the bean.
Fielding is par for the course with HH 2001. It s nice to see some smarts in the infield these days. I remember some games where even from 10ft the player would do a full wind-up throw. Not here baby. Infielders will even toss a ball behind their back to get an out.