A fascinating look at MLB: The Show
Despite being raised in Britain, last year I started playing MLB: The Show 22' as part of a growing fascination with baseball spurred by the game's cover star, Shohei Ohtani, a literal once-a-century talent. I created a character in imitation of him, Jack Kirby, a two-way player with the ability to both regularly hit home runs and pitch at an elite level. This was considered genuinely impossibleof a video game before Ohtani.
For the first few in-game years, it can seem like the awards screen exists to deliberately highlight the difference between your accolades and your wages. But here's the thing MLB: The Show reflects real-life MLB contracts, and that means it takes at least two years playing for a team to have any ability to renegotiate salary above the league minimum, and up toyears to gain the ability to go into free agency and change teams, regardless of the wealth the player generates for a team.
Some of the RTTS games take place in bleak, low-detail parks, like playing in a sun-drenched Purgatory. The funny thing is, this malaise is an excellent replication of baseball. Shohei Ohtani himself is approaching his sixth year with the LA Angels and was paid the league minimum salary for much of that time despite being arguably the sports player ever. The average retirement age of an MLB player is under 30, meaning a huge portion of players crash out of the system before getting a chance at the 'real money' offered by free agency.
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