What happens with MLB The Show 27? In my opinion, the most likely result is the entire 2027 MLB season will be cancelled due to the lockout that will almost certainly begin when the current player CBA ends at 23:59 on December 1st of this year.

One cannot easily count the number of customers participating at this community forum who have consistently told SDS they have rested far too long on their previously earned laurels. That they have spent the last several years spending woefully inadequate human time and resources on keeping the game engine and the overall game experience as realistic as current video game technology can support. The game has become choked by overly layered code that often operates against itself, producing wildly inaccurate presentations during a game.

Is SDS going to "mail it in" another year for 2027 and release MLB The Show 27 with nothing more than cosmetic changes in how the game functions, relying more on marketing slogans to repackage existing game function into enticing but false promises of new and better function? That's been the trend for too many years. People are noticing, and another year of that approach, combined with the near certain absence of an actual MLB season for 2027, doesn't strike me as an intelligent strategy.