You start at the draft workouts, and work your way up from AA to the Majors. In it, you create and caretake your own professional rookie. The real star of MLB The Show 17 is no doubt the Pave Your Path mode. Quick and dirty couch and online matches like this would be awesome. It feels like a bit of a missed opportunity, but a mode worth expanding upon in the future. There’s a retro mode that turns The Show into a sort of arcade baseball game with 16-bit graphical overlays and more.

Your solo, online, and fantasy modes are all intact with minimal upgrades. That may seem like an odd thing to mention right off the bat, but like all good sports games these days MLB The Show sees a new release every year, and being able to essentially carry over franchise and roster progress is a godsend.

It’s a nice touch that The Show 17 lets you bring over your rosters and saves from last year’s game, and here’s hoping The Show 18 does the same. In the best way possible, with Griffey on the cover no less, MLB The Show 17 is the best baseball video games have ever been, and sets a high bar for the series and the genre going forward. The latter of which essentially drove my interest in pro sports long before I ever played organized sports myself. But the mornings and evenings? They were all SNES all the time, and therefore they were almost always all about Final Fantasy of Ken Griffey Jr. I’d spend the afternoons playing basketball, maybe hitting baseballs with a friend.

When I was young, I’d spend long summers at my dad’s house.

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