MLB The Show 23
Build a baseball career, manage a club or revisit historic moments in MLB The Show 23, where batting choices sit alongside player development and the video-led Negro Leagues stories of Storylines.
- AI score · out of 10
- 8.0 / 10
About this game
Step into the batter’s box and choose a normal, contact or power swing. The Zone interface also lets you aim the Plate Coverage Indicator. Road to the Show places those batting decisions within a prospect’s career, with training sessions providing progression points and completed challenges offering a choice of perks. Franchise moves the focus to running a club: draft players, sign free agents, hire staff and manage the budget. Storylines takes a different route through baseball, pairing playable Moments with curated historical videos. Its opening chapter follows Negro Leagues players, making their careers the subject of both the storytelling and the action.
Collected in series
MLB: The Show turns baseball’s pitch-by-pitch decisions into a mix of batting, pitching, fielding and longer-term team building. Across the series, you can develop a player’s career, manage a franchise or assemble a roster through player cards.
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AI review
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A promising fit for baseball fans who want personal progression alongside club management and historical context.
Career training and perk choices give individual performances a potential longer-term purpose. Franchise and Storylines offer different reasons to engage with baseball, depending on whether roster decisions or the people behind the sport interest you more.
Strengths
- Training and perk selection can make developing a player feel more personal than simply completing matches.
- Playable historical Moments give the accompanying videos an interactive point of reference.
Who it is for: Players interested in shaping a baseball career, making club-management decisions or learning about Negro Leagues players through play.
Play notes: Storylines chapters beyond the included first chapter require downloaded game updates and an internet connection.
View scoring basis
| Dimension | Review state | Score | Weight |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dimension A prospect’s progression, club management and historical Moments offer distinct structures for players who prefer different kinds of baseball goals. | Reviewed | 8.5 / 10 | Not provided |
| Dimension Choosing a swing type and aiming in Zone batting should appeal to players who enjoy making deliberate decisions at the plate. | Reviewed | 8.4 / 10 | Not provided |
| Dimension Pairing historical videos with playable Negro Leagues moments can give the action a stronger connection to the people it depicts. | Reviewed | 7.6 / 10 | Not provided |
| Dimension The documented button and analog batting inputs provide alternatives worth considering when choosing how directly to control each swing. | Reviewed | 6.4 / 10 | Not provided |
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Core information
- Developer
- Sony Interactive
- Publisher
- MLB Advanced Media
- Release date
- Mar 28, 2023
- Platforms
- Nintendo Switch
- Content kind
- Game
- Release state
- Released
- Region
- Worldwide
- Official website
- Not provided
- Offline minimum players
- Not provided
- Offline maximum players
- Not provided
- Online minimum players
- Not provided
- Online maximum players
- Not provided
- Categories
- Sports · Primary genre
- Tags
- Sports-based Play3D GraphicsShort SessionsLocal Co-opReplayableFast-pacedLow Entry BarrierPick-up and PlaySolo-friendlyPlayer versus Player
- Supported game languages
- Not provided
- Requires base game
- Not provided
- Standalone
- Not provided
- Age ratings
- Not provided
- Play modes
- Co-opMultiplayerSingle player
- Perspectives
- Not provided
Release editions
- Nintendo SwitchWorldwideMar 28, 2023
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Sources
- www.nintendo.comSource revision: 1
- www.nintendo.com