MVP Baseball 2005

MVP Baseball 2005 is a baseball video game developed by EA Canada and published by Electronic Arts. It features the Boston Red Sox left fielder, Manny Ramirez, on the cover. The game features the full Major League Baseball, Minor League Baseball, and Major League Baseball Players Association licenses. As with previous versions of the game, the announcers are Duane Kuiper and Mike Krukow, the real-life announcers for the San Francisco Giants. A PlayStation Portable version of the game, titled MVP Baseball, was later released in May 2005. Gameplay MVP Baseball 2005 consists of 30 Major League Baseball teams and includes nearly all league players. One exclusion is Barry Bonds, who does not appear in the game due to his withdrawal from the MLBPA's licensing agreement. His "replacement" is a fictional player named Jon Dowd. Dowd bears no resemblance in appearance to Bonds, but his skills mimic those of Bonds. Like its predecessor MVP Baseball 2004, this game does not include Kevin Millar, who does not appear because he is not a member of the MLBPA. His "replacement" is a fictional player named Anthony Friese. The game includes authentic minor league teams and actual minor league players, including double-A and triple-A-level farm teams. 2005's installment includes ball clubs from the High Single-A ranks as well, giving each MLB team three levels of minor league farm clubs. 2 legends teams, 63 legendary players, 15 classic stadiums, 5 fantasy parks, and more than 100 retro uniforms round out the list of unlockable features. Rosters are current as of January 12, 2005, and the game included the then-new Washington Nationals, along with their then-temporary home, RFK Stadium. At the time, new rosters could be downloaded to the Xbox and PS2 versions by accessing their online play menus. MVP Baseball 2005 includes an exhibition mode, a manager's mode, two different franchise modes, a scenario editor, and a handful of baseball-themed practice games. The exhibition mode lets the player quickly set up a game against another team, and both pick a starting pitcher and adjust the line-up if needed. The manager mode is simulated based on players' choices before the opening pitch. The player doesn't see the players swing or make plays. Instead, the player picks from a list of managerial choices, and the outcome of each play is printed on-screen in a running box score.