{"id":185,"date":"2005-06-08T21:17:42","date_gmt":"2005-06-08T21:17:42","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2005-06-08T21:17:42","modified_gmt":"2005-06-08T21:17:42","slug":"more-baseball-sims","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/2005\/06\/08\/more-baseball-sims\/","title":{"rendered":"More Baseball Sims"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Piggy-backing a bit on Chris\u2019s last post\u2026<\/p>\n<p>Lately, I\u2019ve been using All Star Baseball 2004 as my main baseball simulator.  That\u2019s right, I\u2019m using a console baseball game as a sim.  The incredible depth and realism of the Franchise mode, combined with the ability to manage-only, and a very \u201cwatchable\u201d game of baseball on the screen, make ASB 2004 a pretty good choice for those that don\u2019t want to rely on hand-eye coordination to build a winning team.  There are a few minor bugs to slog through, like the dreaded \u201croster analysis\u201d screen that forces your hand on some moves due to position distribution, and some graphical glitches, but for me, these are fairly easily overlooked.  It\u2019s a fair trade-off for a game that includes salary arbitration, the June Amateur Draft, 40-man rosters, options, and many more items that are \u201cby the book\u201d in Major League Baseball.  Never has any game \u2013 PC or console \u2013 more accurately simulated what it\u2019s like in the GM\u2019s chair from a baseball operations standpoint, in my opinion.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019ve decided to take control of the Pirates, circa 2003 (ASB 2004 was actually released in the Spring of 2003), and see if I can build a winner with their feeble budget.  Surprisingly, at that point in time, I really feel like the Pirates had a competitive roster for the NL Central.  Too bad they traded all of that talent away\u2026<\/p>\n<p>Why the Pirates, you ask?  I just absolutely love PNC Park, and I can\u2019t think of a better place to \u201cmanage\u201d half of my games\u2026  Plus, I kind of get tired of picking my hometeam Indians all of the time.<\/p>\n<div class=\"addtoany_share_save_container addtoany_content_bottom\"><div class=\"a2a_kit a2a_kit_size_ addtoany_list a2a_target\" id=\"wpa2a_1\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.addtoany.com\/share\" onclick=\"__gaTracker('send', 'event', 'outbound-article', 'https:\/\/www.addtoany.com\/share', '');\" class=\"a2a_dd addtoany_share_save\"><img src=\"https:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-content\/plugins\/add-to-any\/share_save_171_16.png\" width=\"171\" height=\"16\" alt=\"Share\"\/><\/a>\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\"><!--\nif(wpa2a)wpa2a.script_load();\n\/\/--><\/script>\n<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Piggy-backing a bit on Chris\u2019s last post\u2026 Lately, I\u2019ve been using All Star Baseball 2004 as my main baseball simulator. That\u2019s right, I\u2019m using a console baseball game as a sim. The incredible depth and realism of the Franchise mode, combined with the ability to manage-only, and a very \u201cwatchable\u201d game of baseball on the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/2005\/06\/08\/more-baseball-sims\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">More Baseball Sims<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"addtoany_share_save_container addtoany_content_bottom\"><div class=\"a2a_kit a2a_kit_size_ addtoany_list a2a_target\" id=\"wpa2a_2\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.addtoany.com\/share\" onclick=\"__gaTracker('send', 'event', 'outbound-article', 'https:\/\/www.addtoany.com\/share', '');\" class=\"a2a_dd addtoany_share_save\"><img src=\"https:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-content\/plugins\/add-to-any\/share_save_171_16.png\" width=\"171\" height=\"16\" alt=\"Share\"\/><\/a><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-185","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-archive"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=185"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=185"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=185"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=185"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}