MLB '07: The Show (PlayStation 2, 2007)

This is the best baseball game I have played in awhile, probably the best since World Series Baseball on the old Sega Genesis. Gameplay is realistic, and franchise modes are very in-depth. Players have unique batting stances and deliveries (for pitchers) and the stadiums all look great and have great detail. Overall, it is a very enjoyable game with lots of features and different kinds of games. There is a career mode where you create a player and try to make it to the majors. The games you play in are fast-forwarded until your player is involved in a play in the field or at bat/on the bases. There are season and franchise modes, where you control a team for a season or more. There is exhibition mode, for when you just want to play a quick game. There is a home run derby more, and more!
There are a couple of bugs in the game and a couple things I do not like. The one main bug is when you are in franchise mode, whenever you play a game when you are done your entire coaching staff disappears. Not a big deal to me, as I play more to play and not to micro-manage. But, if you like to take control of every aspect such as coaching/training/development then that is a bug that will definately "bug" you!. Another bug is that every so often when you go to your bullpen when you are at bat to warm a pitcher up, the game will prompt you to replace the pitcher for the other team (which you can't do) and the game will not let you leave the bullpen till you do that. So in essence the game gets stuck. Also, the crowd/game noise goes off and on sometimes during the pitchers delivery, which is a little annoying.
One annoyance (to me anyways) is that home runs can come fairly easily it seems when you have the pitcher in a hole (like 2-0 or 3-1) and swing with power. The CPU pitchers almost always groove one in those instances, and you can often (almost easily) make them pay. I wish that was a little harder.
All said and done, I do recommend this game if you are into the gameplay of baseball games and I do not recommend this game if you are into managing/developing teams. If you have your PS2 set up to connect to the net, you can log on and download updated rosters during the season (which is very nice). I recommend the game if you like baseball, but wish it didn't have so many bugs.