MLB The Show 18: How to Get Called Up in RTTS
Tip 3: Play the Right Way and Make Smart Training Choices
With training points out, you actually need to play the right way. RTTS will punish you for playing sloppily and lazily. If you swing at every pitch, your contact is going to be stunted greatly and you’ll never rank up in plate discipline. That’s why tip 1 earlier is so important. You’ll want to pick an archetype that is going to support the way you like to play, otherwise you’re essentially banging your head against a wall if you desperately want to be a patient good contact hitter, but you swing at everything.
Try your best to play the way you’re supposed to play and the game will reward you. However, if you’re really struggling and your progress is being slowed because of deficiencies in your game, then you need to make up for it using the training opportunities after each series. Don’t just be lazy and pick anything. Understand your options. You can either get a quick boost in a rating of your choice, or you can choose to raise the cap of something instead.
If you see that you’re approaching the cap on a rating (enough that you could reach it within one series), make sure that you’re choosing to raise the cap, otherwise, take the ratings boost. If you suck at taking pitches and you see an opportunity to boost your plate discipline, take it.
Now, while I might be painting a picture that the new system is restricting, it’s also liberating in a way too. Where, in the past, training points were so precious and you wouldn’t want to waste it on stuff like drag bunting if you wanted to be a power hitter, in MLB The Show 18’s RTTS, you can mix in some drag bunts to keep it leveled up without having to waste points. You literally become the player that you act like on the field, so just remember that.
That does it for how to get called up in RTTS for MLB The Show 18. If you have your own tips and tricks, feel free to share it down in the comments below.
