About the Game: MLB Tap Sports Baseball 2019 Beginner’s Guide: Tips, Cheats & Tricks to Build Your MLB Dynasty - Level Winner Check out our MLB Tap Sports Baseball 2019 beginner',s guide for tips, cheats and strategies that could help you out in your first couple days of gameplay. MLB Tap Sports Baseball 2019 Beginner’s Guide: Tips, Cheats & Tricks to Build Your MLB Dynasty. This year’s Major League Baseball season has just started, and you may be looking for a mobile game for your iOS or Android device that could keep you engaged all season long with a plethora of features, real-life teams and players, and fairly realistic results. If this sounds like you, then you might want to check out Glu Games’ MLB Tap Sports Baseball 2019. While Glu is probably better known for their celebrity-themed games such as Kim Kardashian: Hollywood and their Deer Hunter series of games, the company’s Tap Sports Baseball franchise has kept baseball fans entertained and glued (no pun intended) to their mobile device screens for years. This year’s edition introduces some new features, such as the option to add three players from your 2018 roster to the 2019 edition (provided you’re using the same Game Center account) and the ability to add your create-a-player “Legend” to your team. Apart from that, fans of the Tap Sports Baseball franchise can expect more of the same — realistic, real-life players and stats (including some all-time greats joining the present-day players), incredibly detailed ballparks, and different game modes that you could all use to your advantage to earn more rewards and improve your roster. If you’re new to the game, or if you’ve played a previous edition but need to get yourself back up to snuff, we recommend reading on for our MLB Tap Sports Baseball 2019 beginner’s guide. We’ve got eight tips and tricks that we believe could help you out in your first couple days of gameplay, much more so, we’d say, than the game’s brief tutorial stage. 1. Learning The Basics. Anyone who’s played previous editions of MLB Tap Sports Baseball should know what to do here, but for the benefit of those who have just started out, we might as well get you started on the fundamentals. First of all, there’s no need to worry about pitching and fielding — it’s all about timing your swing against the opposing pitcher and making sure you’re actually swinging at the right time. It may take a bit of practice, and even experienced players will go on slumps like real-life baseball players do, but the key here is to swing only when the ball travels within the strike zone — that’s the point between the midpoint of a batter’s shoulders and the top of their pants. Keeping things as close to layman’s terms as possible, do not swing if the ball appears to be headed to the vacant square opposite to where the batter is standing, or if it appears to travel too close to the batter. Games can be played against real-life, human managers or against AI managers, and more likely than not, you’ll be playing against human opponents most of the time. Regardless of which mode you play in, games will always be turn-based, and once you’re playing standard games against human players, you will need to wait until your opponent completes their turn before you can start the next inning. (You have the option to “nudge,” or send a reminder to your opponent if it takes them too long to play their half of the inning.) You can also play “bonus” games, where you will still be playing against human-owned teams, albeit with the AI controlling them so that you don’t need to wait in between the top and bottom of an inning. While you can select any of the 30 Major League Baseball teams, MLB Tap Sports Baseball 2019 will put you on even footing with everyone else — at least, as far as those who are playing the game for the first time are concerned — by assigning you a random roster, which you can then upgrade as you win more games and earn more Draft Picks. So, for example, you chose the Philadelphia Phillies, don’t expect to start out your Tap Sports Baseball experience with MLB’s real-life $330 million man, Bryce Harper, in the lineup as your right fielder, or with cover athlete Mookie Betts if you chose the Boston Red Sox. The game’s tutorial, however, will allow you to purchase one Franchise Player — that’s a real-life MLB superstar with vastly elevated stats compared to the players you’ll be starting out with, but only a limited number of games in which he could contribute to your team. 2. The Key To Timing Your Swing. We did mention how important it is to time your swing when playing games in MLB Tap Sports Baseball 2019. But since swinging is what you’ll be doing whenever you control your team on the field, we’ll also be covering this topic in a separate tip right here. So what do you need to do to ensure you’re connecting at a fairly reliable rate? (To give you a statistical idea of what you want to aim for, real-life league-wide MLB batting averages are usually in the .260 to .275 range or thereabouts, with .300 generally considered a good batting average.) Although you definitely want the bat to make contact with the ball, anyone who knows baseball will tell you that there’s much more than just that when it comes to registering a hit. If you don’t make that much contact with the ball, it will either go to the foul zone and result in a foul ball (which would count as a strike until you’re accumulated two strikes), or get sprayed in such a way that an infielder could easily get the ball to first base before your batter makes it there (your typical ground out). If you hit the ball and one of the outfielders catches it before it goes over the fence, that’s a fly out — that doesn’t count as a hit, but that, at least, suggests that you’re on the right track — you’ve made enough contact with the ball to give the batter a solid chance of getting the hit. As we mentioned in the first tip, you want to avoid swinging the moment you figure out that the ball will be traveling well outside the strike zone. But it’s inevitable for players to make such a mistake, especially during situations when you’re playing some of your first few games of the day, or if your form isn’t exactly where it should be. In the latter situation, you may want to take a break from the game and give yourself about a half-hour or so to regroup, this is usually a good way to deal with those times when you’ve simply got no momentum going in most types of mobile games. 3. When Should You Auto-Play Innings? MLB Tap Sports Baseball 2019, just like its predecessors, allows you to auto-play innings, which essentially means you’re allowing the game to handle the battling for your team, on top of the pitching and fielding that’s already handled by the AI. Theoretically, it’s possible to auto-play an entire game for all nine innings, win the game, and collect the rewards you would normally collect had you taken care of the batting all from the first inning to the ninth. (Or more, in case things go to extra innings.) But when should you auto-play, and when should you handle the batting? What we would recommend, if you’re a beginner, is to let the game’s AI take care of the batting if you’re up against a superior team whose Game Rating is equal to or greater than yours. If your opponent ends up trouncing you, or if you end up with a huge lead, you can take over and, well, step up to the bat. If you’re behind by several runs late in the game, the good thing is that there’s pretty much nothing to lose at that point, and if you’re conversely up by several runs, you can take it easy with the pressure off of you — take the chance to do the batting, as this could be good practice for you going forward. As you gain more experience, you may gradually let the AI bat for you against substantially weaker teams in terms of Game Rating, while st mlb tap sports baseball 2019 hack