The dream game for the baseball history nerds/stat nerds, tons of cool features like having the option to simulate every season all the way back to 1871, full international teams, minor leagues, and of course the ultra maximalist stats and options for any sim game. Macro-manage from trades and scouting budgets all the way to micro-managing pitcher's fastball tendencies. I've always been more attracted to the arcadey and athletic version of sports games than any of the numbers below the belt, but this game has a certain undeniable charm to it. Like, the sheer amount of options and decision-making you can do is impressive, but the game is also very flexible in regards to how much of these options you want to have direct control over. It's really a 'you get what you put on' type of sim game, which is really the only respectable approach to sim games TBH. On account of being so open-ended, some people in the official forums of this game compare OOTP to being a robust and accessible text-RPG over an actual hardcore sports sim; it's a comparison I can understand but one I'm not quite sure I fully agree with.

All in all, the only thing I can say for certain is that Trevor Story is out for 9 months, will probably not sign an extension if we miss the playoffs this season, and that German Marquiez is the most inconsistent 'star player' I have seen in a sports team in a long-ass while. Go Rockies.