Common Location Habits
Low & Away Lifers: Aim there on MLB The Show 25 Stubs almost every pitch because it’s safe.

Climbers: Try to overpower you with high heat after offspeed pitches.

Corner Snipers: Rarely pitch over the plate, aiming for black edges to avoid hard contact.

Counter Strategy:

If they stay low, start shading your PCI down.

If they love inside heat, cheat your timing to catch it early.

If they nibble too much, develop discipline — force them into hitter’s counts.

3. Sequence Patterns: The “How” of Their Approach
Pitch sequences are the order in which a pitcher throws pitches. This is where advanced hitters make their biggest gains.

Even if a pitcher mixes pitch types well, they often have favorite sequences they subconsciously return to — like a two-pitch combo or a setup-then-finisher pattern.

Why It Matters:
Breaking the sequence code means you can call pitches before they happen.

How to Read Pitch Sequences
Setup → Finish:
Many pitchers use one pitch to set up another — for example, throwing a high fastball to change your eye level before dropping a curve.

Back-to-Back Avoidance:
Some never throw the same pitch twice in a row, which means if you just saw a slider, you can rule it out next.

Confidence Combos:
If their best pitch is a slider, they may pair it with a fastball inside to set it up.

Common Sequence Patterns
Hard–Soft: Fastball in the zone followed by a breaking ball away.

Soft–Hard: Offspeed early, then high heat to blow you away.

Double Junk: Two breaking balls in a row, especially to chase-happy hitters.

Counter Strategy:

If you see a repeating two-pitch combo, sit on cheap MLB Stubs the second pitch when it matters most.

Use your early ABs as data collection — even if you make an out, you’re building sequence awareness.