MLB Front Office Manager
November 8th, 2009 | 
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- Build Your Roster – An extremely deep Career Mode takes users beyond simple trades and free signings, and allows them to fully experience the life of an MLB general manager. Manage Minor League rosters, set domestic and international scouting budgets, bid for Japanese free agents, select new players in the Amateur and Rule 5 Drafts, offer arbitration to free agents, and more.
- Take The Field – Manage your team’s games on the field all season and enjoy a never-before-seen presentation style designed to resemble a real life TV broadcast
- Learn From a Pro – Renowned GM Billy Beane becomes a mentor to users, providing helpful tips and insightful baseball information that even the biggest fan doesn’t know
- Online Fantasy Leagues
- Statistics
Product Description
Take yourself in to the ballgame! MLB Front Office Manager lets gamers do everything a real-life baseball GM can do to develop a team from Spring Training through a full MLB season, into the playoffs and the World Series. Using Major League teams and players, gamers will create their own fictional baseball universe and build their reputation into elite status. Gamers can replace aging veterans with rookies, scout the Minor Leagues, make blockbuster trades, and even… More >>
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Here is a game finally geared to the person who really doesnt care much for playing the game as much as setting up a team and dynasty. You can pretty much do anything. Its great that finally a baseball game has REAL aspects of contracts and the roster functions such as Rule 5 draft, Arbitration, the 40 man roster and player happiness. Player ratings are even much more accurate. Instead of the typical ratings of A+ or a 98, Players are rated on the Baseball scouts 20-80 scale. (20 is lower quality minor league and 80 being Major league all star)
The game seems basic at first, but after you begin the career it gets down to the nitty gritty. A lot of information is thrown at you and it can be a little overwhelming. I had the misfortune of buying this game without having a PC controller which made navigating the screens very difficult and almost annoyingly hard. (HIGHLY recommend the Xbox PC controller as the buttons on the game and in the manual are geared specifically for it)
Again this game is for the person who likes building up a team and loves the intracacies and in-depth realism of Baseball, the game of numbers and cunning, OFF the field.
Rating: 4 / 5
While this game isn’t for Major League Gamers is does fit the bill for my 2 teen kids and thier dad. The approach of bad weather makes this a fun alternative to rainy day blahs.
Rating: 5 / 5
On PC, this concept has already been mastered on several occasions. I feel the best version of this is Baseball Mogul, but Diamond Mind is pretty good too. Point being, don’t come with what is a horrible port of a console game and bring it to PC to challenge the baseball sim market… This game is very flawed, and very unrealistic..
Rating: 1 / 5
On both my relatively new computers — one desktop, one laptop — both name brand machines, I couldn’t get this game to run because of graphics card incompatibility. Yep, I should have double checked, but given the age of my machines and never having had any problems with other popular video games purchased I wound up sadly disappointed.
Rating: 1 / 5
As a fan of sports management sims – football (soccer), rugby and cricket – and having a passing interest in baseball, I bought this to see how managing a US baseball team would compare.
Perhaps I didn’t read the spec closely enough but thus far I have found the title disappointing. The interface is far from intuitive for keyboard and mouse, seems to have been designed for a gamepad and console more than the PC. As a baseball “noob” I expected to do some head scratching but you are thrown straight in the deep end with contract negotiation for the new season. However the lightweight manual is of little use and there’s not much in game help either. A tutorial would definitely have been of use.
Management seems largely confined to dealing with contracts and picking your squad. I couldn’t see any coaching or training element which is surely a key component of any sports management sims where you hire the coaches and support staff then decide how you proceed with developing the squad. No team talks or individual “pep talks” with the players either. You don’t get any say in managing investment in the ground or associated commercial activities – not saying you need to be setting the price of everything down to the hot pies from the concession stands (as an EA soccer management game did) but I find this aspect quite enjoyable.
When match day (eventually) arrives one of the things that attracted me to MLB over other text based sims was the promise of a full 3D game engine. This is best described as functional rather than pretty. Options are again extremely limited – there’s very little in the way of tactical input into playing style. If you choose to go ball by ball, you can’t vary the pitch style, batting is either hit or bunt. There’s a feature to auto-play the match but surely this defeats the point of a management game?
Overall, rather disappointed. Maybe as someone not that well versed in the game I’m missing the point of what a baseball Front Office Manager does – but if this is all he does, it’s not a very interesting premise for a game.
One final point, the game uses Steam to install and authenticate from the DVD – good news you don’t need the disc in the drive (apart from the HD footprint of course), bad news if you decide the game isn’t for you then you can’t sell it on secondhand.
Rating: 2 / 5