Over at operationsports there's a lot of good debate going on.
It seems like the computer always scores in the first inning of a game with computer assistance OFF. With it ON, the computer will play more naturally for the first 6 innings, but then come the 7th, the game breaks and you start making errors every other play until they catch up.
I can't tell you the number of times I've scored only to have the computer score the very next inning. They don't swing at balls, and every pitch they hit they nail with insane amounts of power. This is with the computer assistance OFF.
The problem is, there is computer assistance either way, with the setting turned ON or OFF.
And for the life of me I have no idea why SCEA decided to do this. MLB 08 had none of this. If it did, it was very little and hardly game changing.
After playing for over two weeks and seeing this in every single game I've played, I've decided to return this game. It's not worth the frustration. Everything else is so perfect, but when the A.I. (and online) are this shitty, there's zero point to playing.