Going up and swinging wildly will only get you back to the bench in three. The same thing goes when you're on the mound. If you don't vary pitch type, location, and speed, you're gonna get shelled. Oh, and as a side note, I should mention that you have to warm relief pitchers up. It takes a few batters before they're ready to enter a game, so make sure that you think ahead.
Hits are realistic and varied.
You'll hit frozen ropes, high-hoppers, gappers, line huggers, and Texas leaguers. Foul balls get sprayed all over the place. Being able to foul off pitch after pitch and hang in there in tough situations lends a real baseball atmosphere to many at-bats. I guided Chuck Knoblauch through a 15-pitch marathon against Kevin Brown in the seventh inning of a recent exhibition game on pro level. I finally struck out, but simply being able to stay alive with tips and fouls into the stands was very dramatic.