I think a really cool feature that should be added to this game is to have players, especially your RTTS player, announce their retirement before playing out their final season. And there could be cut scenes of ceremonies as the player visits each city for the last time, where the home teams give him retirement gifts, such as a Fenway Park Green Monster scoreboard number plate with his uniform number, and respectful standing ovations from the home team fans.

One thing that I think needs to be fixed next year are your player’s stadium sounds, like when you score a run, or strike someone out, you also hear those sounds on the road. In real life, no stadium would ever support the road team with those sounds. They have to add an option to only allow it at your home games.

How about Roger Maris?

@Tikar626_MLBTS said in Deeper RTTS suggestions:

I'd love to see more detail in RTTS. There should be more interviews during the season after you have a big game or go on a streak or even a slump. The relationships things with your teammates like '20 should be incorporated back into the game. Maybe have the equipment/gear you use be based on contracts earned and you earn extra xp for wearing it. You're contract with the team should matter more, at the least when you earn a big contract your home screen should be in a bigger home or condo instead of just in the locker room.
Also being able to grind and max out my player without having to play DD is something I'd like. So far I'm seeing my attributes capping at 50 still.

I totally agree with the sponsorships!!! You can actually buy sponsorships in the Community Market but they're only used in Franchise Mode. I learned that the hard way when I wasted stubs on a sponsorship. I always thought your contract money should be connected with your stubs. Like say, for every million dollars, you get 10,000 stubs. And if you're making like 10 million per year, that's a whopping 100,000 stubs per year!!!!

-Exterior shots of each stadium, fans entering the gates
-Interior concourse shots, fans lining up for food
-Broadcast booth shots of Chris Singleton and John Sciambi
-Grounds crew putting tarp on the field during rain delays, struggling during windy rain storms
-Clubhouse champagne celebrations for division clinches, and playoff series/World Series victories
-World Championship ticker tape parades
-Meeting the President at the White House

1. More cut scenes, such as rain delays, Instant Replay Challenges and mound visits (These are featured in every other game mode except RTTS)

2. RTTS pitcher gets pulled after a long rain delay

3. Bench Clearing Incidents, ejections, fines, and suspensions (This could also apply to Franchise Mode)

4. Argue with the umpire (Press a button when prompted to trigger an argument meter, press and hold to go from Disappointed to Furious), manager comes out to argue and protect you

5. More realistic trades and free agent signings (7 years into my Yankees RTTS, the original 2022 roster is pretty much disbanded. In real life, 80% of the team would probably still be there by then)

@darkblue1876_PSN said in Some more cutscenes that I would love to see added to the game:

I would like to see something better for the end of a career other than you are sitting in the clubhouse and that's it. Maybe some interviews after the game for setting new all time records and such.

Post-career cutscenes for your Hall of Fame induction and number retirement ceremony!!!!

@GuTs-Def_XBL said in Anyone else having this network problem these past few days?:

Ok so I been having issues for about a day now so basically what's happening too me is pretty much the same as u guys I'll get an error that says I can't connect to the show online and I have 0 stubs and whenever I go into road to the show nun of my stuff is there like nun of my equipment or anything it's just gone so so meone knows a fix or why this is happening please let me know cause I've done about everything I can't even login on the mlbtheshow.com website so I'm not sure what's going but hopefully it gets fixed soon I'm eager to play my road to the show

WTF is going on?!?!? You would think they would at least put out a statement on social media, like "Sorry for the inconvenience!" But no, they have been silent!!!!

You know what would be funny, yet a really nice touch to the game? They should add a Zack Hample fan model into the game, and watch him run around various sections of the stadium for home runs and foul balls!!!

@tybud_PSN said in Walk Up Music:

I think you used to be able to do that. For some reason I remember using Soundgarden's intro to 4th of July as my walk up music. That was a long time ago, I've had my TV on mute for the show for the last few years.

Yeah, on the PS3, I copied some songs off my CDs. Nowadays, linking Spotify would be much, much easier!!!

Correct me if I'm wrong, but at this time last year, Shohei Ohtani was already revealed just weeks before. And when SDS usually start their gameplay reveal streams?

So I just pitched 6 innings, but lost. Next game, I was the DH and went 1 for 4. And now, next game, I'm suddenly pitching again on only 1 day rest!!! How did this happen? Is this a glitch that will be fixed in this year's game?

I think a really cool feature that should be added to this game is to have players, especially your RTTS player, announce their retirement before playing out their final season. And there could be cut scenes of ceremonies as the player visits each city for the last time, where the home teams give him retirement gifts, such as a Fenway Park Green Monster scoreboard number plate with his uniform number, and respectful standing ovations from the home team fans.

@SaveFarris_PSN said in A suggestion for MLB the Show 23:

For the 8 millionth time, the MLB license prohibits it.

Although they seem to have no problem showing batters yelling at pitchers and staring them down for pitches high and inside or when they actually get beaned

YES!!!! Ejections and suspensions too!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

@Ktothemarvel_PSN said in MLB The Show ‘23 Wishlist️:

General Improvements

• Better graphics. The player models and field look plastic. Feels like I’m still looking at PS3 graphics. Graphics need more life no offense.
• More player personality and emotions. Players interacting with opposing players while on base, players on field throwing up hand signs to indicate how many outs, players reacting to a bad calls, managers mouthing off at umpires, also show different facial expressions depending on the player and situation.
• Adjust offline user pitch speed for individual pitching animations. Often times some of the pitching animations take too long to release the ball. Speeding up pitching animations can help to not drag out a 9 inning game especially for Franchise and Road to the Show. Also feel like the pitching animations are a bit slower than in real life for major league pitchers.
• More sock height options. Players in the major leagues like Tatis with the socks being high only up to the ankles example: Greg Maddux.
• Better replay angles. I think replay angles from the side look better. Especially for batters and pitchers. Too many slowed down replays. Need normal speed replays. Balance it out.

Road to the Show

• Trophy room to show off awards and accomplishments like in a display case. Or in the stats section of your player.
• Salary and overall rating should be more meaningful. More money and high overall can show importance on a team like your role as a player and influence on team. Like maybe the manager respects your input on who should be signed, resigned, traded, etc.
• Talking to agent should be available at all times. In real life these players pay big money to keep a agent. Talk to agent about immediate release, ask for trade immediately.
• Talk to manager as well. On changing your position, your batting lineup #, suggest who to sign, resign, and who to trade for.
• More hairstyles and facial hair. Like bald guys beards should be a smooth gradient fade into the head not a straight cut off beard that is only meant for players with hair
• We need Tattoos please. Use the logo creator and logo vault for tattoos if you worried about copyright issues.
• More jewelry for example: earrings and different style chains like tennis chains and cuban links. Gold color and diamonds. Pendants as well should be added too.
• Better trade system and retirement system. Often times big name players like Trout, Tatis, and Harper to name a few end up on random teams after their contract is over and they end up retiring on that team they don’t have a history with. It doesn’t make sense for big name players who had 6-8+ years of a big contact to be traded or signed to another team after their contract is up.
• Realistic scoring. As a positional player, SDS gives CPU a crazy unrealistic advantage of scoring runs. If you score 2 runs the CPU will score 4 runs in the next inning if not more. If you score 4 runs to tie it late in the game. SDS will let CPU score double digital runs to win the game and this is every game series. You have to literally hit home runs with bases loaded to defeat the CPU.

Road to the Show can get stale after awhile so having more customization for your rtts player and interactions with a agent and manager, talking to media can add to the immersion. Having stuff to do outside of playing on the field matters too instead of us staring at a rtts menu.

I would also love to see a better uniform number system. Now, as you progress through your career, you will notice that your manager or other coaches would have the same number as a player, new teammates would steal an existing player's number, for example, on my Yankees, I saw Gleyber Torres change his number like at least 4 times!!! And sometimes, new teammates would take the number of players that have already been retired, like Jorge Posada's number 20.

As for retirement, I've seen retired players immediately be inducted into the Hall of Fame. In real life, they have to wait 5 years to be eligible. Another nice touch I'd like to see is retired players coming back to be managers and coaches!

20 years ago, MLB on FOX used to have the catcher cam

As I've been playing RTTS this year, I noticed a major flaw with the Jackie Robinson Day uniforms. As you go through each season, each team wears the same uniform every year. In my case, the Yankees were the road team in their 2022 Jackie Robinson Day game, and throughout each of my seasons, I've seen them wear their road uniforms at home, while the road team wears their home uniforms! Sometimes both teams were wearing their road uniforms!!! I'm playing the Nintendo Switch version, so can any PS4, PS5, or XBox players tell me if you've seen this same problem?

In my RTTS, by the time I reached the 2030 season, I noticed on my Yankees roster that Aaron Judge was nowhere to be seen. I assumed he was traded or just simply retired. So I did a player search and found that he got demoted to Triple-A Scranton!!! In real life, this would never happen!!!

I actually made a thread about this. And I suggested that they should add the Tokyo Dome in Japan and Hiram Bithorn Stadium in Puerto Rico