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I actually like the idea. It adds another dimension to the game. If a user wants to create a “League of their own” custom league that would be cool. You can even alter the sliders to make it more realistic. It’s not unprecedented having women play the game if given the opportunity as we saw from the aforementioned movie or Toni Stone in Negro League baseball for the Indianapolis Clowns in the 50’s. There’s plenty of young girls playing Little League baseball nowadays. This is a video game and should be about inclusiveness for everyone and provide options for them to do so. The fact that no women are currently in MLB shouldn’t be the determining factor because this game has plenty of things in it that aren’t a part of MLB. Players should be able to play how and with whom they want to play with period.

Regarding MLB The Show 20, does anyone know once we rebrand a team if the retired numbers from the former franchise reset and allow us to assign to new players?

They definitely need to add several alternate uniforms capabilities. Would be nice to see different textures for the uniforms as well.

@DriveByTrucker17 said in " Baseball video games need to include Women ":

Not everything has to be inclusive to everybody.

That’s not a hateful, racist, or sexist statement in any way. Some things are just fine as they are.

You realize it’s just an option is all anyone is referring to. No one is implying that women be forced into rosters. But having the option to do so should be available for anyone that wants to do it. I enjoy having the option to edit or create fictional players on my teams or myself onto MLB rosters. Same principle, Baseball isn’t baseball only because men play it. If I edit pitchers to only throw knuckleballs and change ups or alter their fastball sliders I can change this game into Major League Softball too.

If the game is to be simulation of MLB then you should know it’s super rare for players to go straight from college to MLB ( off top of my head Ben McDonald for the Orioles and John Olerud I believe) let alone from high school. I don’t think anyone has went straight from high school to MLB since some pitcher for the Reds in the 50’s.
I would rather like to see the option for different tracks to the Show like a fast track for Superstar potential players where they get to Majors in 1-2 years (i.e. Griffey Jr., A-Rod) if you meet certain criteria playing in the minors or a 2-3 years for others and maybe if one wants to play only in the minors (lol) a career minor leaguer track up to 10 years.

I’d be happy with the ability to edit existing stadiums (i.e. signage, team logos, advertising, even stadium names) or provide us with 6-10 generic major league ones in various locations like downtown, waterfront, suburbs, etc...

I like some of the soundtrack music but I’m very happy they allow us to download our own music so I can customize to my liking.

Yeah I’ve noticed they give players with the higher rating priority when it comes to assigning numbers. I even seen existing star players numbers change if a higher rated player with the same number gets traded to their team. It’s another quality of life issue they need to change.

I have a ton of ideas written down but just to piggyback off the previous post we should be able to fully edit our own team up to MLB standards. Whatever they have (multiple jerseys, patches on jerseys, logos on leggings, etc...) we should have. I’ll take it a step further and say we should have additional uniform types/materials, lettering fonts, uniform patterns (thick/thin pinstripes, window pane, herribone, plaid, blended, etc...) made available to us. We should be able to edit the coaches, add GM/Owners names and completely edit our team stadium from the name to the signage, colors and ads.

YouTube is the best resource. YourFriendKyle, McGunski, Koogs46, GomesDaLegend, and Fuzzy put good and consistent content that is very helpful.

Team expansion and contraction would definitely be a welcomed feature. Any players on teams removed from your league could be added to the free agent pool or hold a contraction draft.

I’ve observed this as well and would like to see better crowd AI reactions to these situations. In Franchise mode when you see a sparse crowd the reactions should be less intense than a packed house.
Also to take it a step further we should have an option to select crowd intensity for our home ballparks in Franchise mode. There definitely is a difference in atmosphere when playing in places like New York and Philly vs less passionate locales. Also we should hear the difference in crowd intensity between playing in the minors vs the big leagues in RTTS.