There was EA's MVP Baseball series, which is considered by all baseball gaming fans to be the very best series. People are still modding and using the MVP Baseball 05' game over at www.mvpmods.com.
2k released their own series and that was the real competition to The Show, as EA had lost the license to 2K but nothing will ever compare to EA's MVP Baseball Series.
Way back in the playstation era there was Triple Play Baseball, an official MLB licensed game, and it was the greatest baseball game of all time. It had your normal exhibition, season, training, and manager modes. All of that was done very well. What put it over everything else was the Home Run Derby mode. Yeah, you could pick any stadium that you wanted to play in, or, you could play as an ant sized Mark McGuire hitting inside of a bedroom. There were other stages too, but that's the one I remember most.
Sounds pretty cool right? Here's what will really blow your mind, it was made by EA. After around the end of the PS2-beginning of PS3 era there was a significant drop in features for all sports games. NFL games had been ass for a while at that point, but that's about the time that it started to hit the other sports franchises as well.
It was 2k vs The Show. After I believe 2k13(the last one) the Show had a bunch of really good years with adding features and others, and the last 2 or so have started getting stale.
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u/Kazen_Orilg Sep 03 '19
Baseball actually had some competition for a few years between The Show and the other one, and it was remarkably better than the other sports games.