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Highest curve stat in the game, and I believe 3rd or 4th highest overall curve in the game. His big claim to fame is that his balls are much faster than the other good pitchers, while curving almost as much. Also he has a great bat.

Toad baseball basics next?

@@theradman9478 it's gotta happen

But this guy said best

@@canevas1017 look, Joey KNOWS that Yellow Toad is an esteemed player

An interesting theory, I do think that Bowser would lose that extra oomph to make bad contact swings still go over the right field wall, so I don't think it's a worthwhile maneuver.

Petey has two things- the same power stat as bowser (even if his bat is worse), and the strongest arm in the game. This makes him a fantastic catcher that's very hard to steal on. He's kind of a just worse bowser, which still makes you incredible. Toadette is.. weird. She is the tallest fielder in the game for some reason, one of the two 90 speed characters in the game (tied with yoshi for fastest), and she's the only non-captain with two abilities (wall jump and sliding catch).

Pick order is 1-2-2-2... so if your opponent picks bowser 1st you get 2 picks. We're aware that 1st pick is a little better but it isn't a guaranteed win by any means

The pitching stat in MSSB can be a bit misleading. His high pitching stat correlates with his fastball speed, it's one of the fastest in the game. However, you'll find that throwing only fastballs doesn't get you very far once the batter learns of the timing, and with Bowser's terrible curveball there is little that he can do to throw off an opponent. The meta for pitching focuses more on pitching curve, something that Boo and Diddy Kong excel at, more than fastballs, which is why Bowser and Waluigi aren't regarded as highly.

@Bread And Circuses my comment is kinda outdated. Top 4 pitchers are Boo, Diddy, Dixie, and Waluigi in that order. Boo is the clear best, then the monkeys have their own tier, then Waluigi. Boo and the monkeys have better curve stats than Walu, and boo’s normal pitch is faster than Walu’s.

@Bread And Circuses 5th best matters very little, if you can't pick up one of the Top 4 pitchers at some point in the draft you are doing it wrong. There isn't really a 5th best, Peach/Daisy works but characters like Green Noki, Green Paratroopa, and Toadsworth are serviceable too. All 5 of those options are better served somewhere else on the field, or in Peach/Daisy's case better off not being on the team.

As opposed to being out of 10 or out of something higher than 100? Because technically charge can go up to 160 but 95 is the highest assigned to a character

@@MrJoesBaseballShow I thought they were kind of arbitrary numbers and thought they didn’t have a cap. I think I heard that stars on add’s 50 to everyone’s charge power and with 3 chem partners on base, you get 1.5x your charge power which would put Bowser at 142.5.

What do you mean that it can go up to 160?

@@TBlingTheMilkman My understanding is stars on caps stats at 100 and if you go too high the game can crash. The highest number I've seen used is 160 as a part of the random batting power mod.

@@MrJoesBaseballShow ah ok thanks